RE: Triggered by Banana Peel
August 31, 2017 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2017 at 10:15 am by Athene.)
Well to be fair Chad, it wasn't exactly "litter". It wasn't simply dropped or accidentally discarded. It nailed to a tree, following all of this cuteness from May:
Silly and innocuous though it may seem, the message being conveyed was clearly "Not welcome here", and she was in a cabin in the woods. The intent was to make her nervous/frightened without making a direct threat of violence; and it worked. She got skittish, and didn't want to be there anymore.
Quote:The morning Taylor Dumpson was to take over as the school’s first female black student government president, students found bananas hanging from nooses across campus. Some of the bananas were inscribed with references to Dumpson’s sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Silly and innocuous though it may seem, the message being conveyed was clearly "Not welcome here", and she was in a cabin in the woods. The intent was to make her nervous/frightened without making a direct threat of violence; and it worked. She got skittish, and didn't want to be there anymore.
