Good point, plp. Anything can be taken out of context and mentally placed in another context which gives it a different meaning, in this case an object with no racist intention is deemed by some who know nothing of it's origin or meaning to be a racist object. To me this begs the queestion, who is being racist here, some goofy guy who decided to put a noose up in his yard a few years ago just for the hell of it or the people who are suddenly outraged at that nooses existance because some other people in a far away place used nooses to make a racist statemment?