This is going to be super short, but I'm so sad right now.
Seriously.
My best friend lives about a block away from where the photo in this article was taken. It's similar to something we read about a couple weeks ago with "empty chairs" hanging from trees.
The metaphor is pretty obvious, and pretty visceral. I recognize people's rights to "lynch Obama in effigy" in their front yard... but....
Just READ THE COMMENTS under this article. Read the people saying things like: "There's no way that chair is supposed to represent a person" and "he probably just hung it in the tree so people could see it."
I genuinely like West Michigan, but it feels like there are so many people here for whom there just isn't any hope... and many of them are probably raising children. Will their children be this broken?
I might actually try to make it to the Diversity group's meeting next week just because I'm terrified that they'll be overrun by rednecks like the ones posting comments.
So sad.