Story out of Clarksville, Tennessee:
An art student hung six nooses, each a different color of the rainbow, from a tree at a university in Tennessee on Monday as part of a class project, the school said, provoking an uproar among students and staff members who saw them as a symbol of racism and homophobia evocative of the Ku Klux Klan.
Passers-by found the colorful nooses hanging in a row — purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red — from a tree branch high above the sidewalk in front of a fine arts building at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., at around 5 p.m. on Monday, the university said.
They were quickly removed by campus police, but it was not until Tuesday that the administration said in a statement that the nooses had been part of an art project. The school declined to name the student who put them up.
The university said in a statement on Tuesday that the student did not intend for the project to have anything to do with race or sexuality. It said she had been “sincerely concerned about the perception of and reaction to the display” and supported the decision to remove them, as did her professor. Cont.
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