Columbia professor finds hangman's noose outside her Office

[egigolo]

Add these to the List, seems the white people here in The Steel City have no imagination

By Karen Roebuck
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, October 5, 2007

Police are investigating several cases in which nooses have been left at workplaces to intimidate black employees.

On Wednesday, a supervisor at the Verizon Wireless Business Services Center in Marshall found a black doll with a noose around its neck and racial slurs directed at it, said company spokeswoman Laura Merritt. Northern Regional Police are investigating.

Verizon is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the person or people who did it, Merritt said.

"We want to make it clear to our employees that we're committed to providing them with a safe and harassment-free workplace and these types of actions won't be tolerated," Merritt said.

In another incident yesterday, Errol Madyun, a black ironworker foreman, said he found a noose hanging over his second-floor work station at an O'Hara condominium construction site. A day earlier, a black laborer on the same site found a noose hanging over his work station, he said.

Madyun said he reported the incident to police, who took a report but told him there was nothing they could do. O'Hara police declined to comment.

On Monday, a black doll with a racial slur aimed at a female, black employee was found hanging in an employees-only hallway of the Port Authority of Allegheny County East Liberty garage. Port Authority police are investigating.

Northern Regional Police Chief Bob Amann said the incidents appear to be unrelated.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_531083.html

 

[water]

Add these to the List, seems the white people here in The Steel City have no imagination

By Karen Roebuck
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, October 5, 2007

Police are investigating several cases in which nooses have been left at workplaces to intimidate black employees.

On Wednesday, a supervisor at the Verizon Wireless Business Services Center in Marshall found a black doll with a noose around its neck and racial slurs directed at it, said company spokeswoman Laura Merritt. Northern Regional Police are investigating.

Verizon is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the person or people who did it, Merritt said.

"We want to make it clear to our employees that we're committed to providing them with a safe and harassment-free workplace and these types of actions won't be tolerated," Merritt said.

In another incident yesterday, Errol Madyun, a black ironworker foreman, said he found a noose hanging over his second-floor work station at an O'Hara condominium construction site. A day earlier, a black laborer on the same site found a noose hanging over his work station, he said.

Madyun said he reported the incident to police, who took a report but told him there was nothing they could do. O'Hara police declined to comment.

On Monday, a black doll with a racial slur aimed at a female, black employee was found hanging in an employees-only hallway of the Port Authority of Allegheny County East Liberty garage. Port Authority police are investigating.

Northern Regional Police Chief Bob Amann said the incidents appear to be unrelated.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_531083.html

Why are we not suing these companies?????

Fuck Verizon............... $5000 reward?

Why not check out the security cameras?

The inability to provide a safe work environment.............. black people wake up and sue these fucking companies!!!!

please Lord let them do that shit to me..............

 

[elchoccolatte]

man I'm tired of white people.

True...

 

[Megatron X]

One on One, a black man can whip a craka, ****, or chink in a fight, on many occassions. You got tough guys in every race but usually the brotha is more masculine.

We already know we can take whitey on an up and up. So they want to get us another way. But this is the plan for the race war. They want to get blacks wild up in the streets. Then the next thing you know they'd be having the military in every black community in the country killing blacks. MAss genocide is what they would like.

So this race war thing is of course not in blacks favor. We got to beat them another way because they got the superior weapons that can withstand out little oozis. Hell if someone gets up in your face deal with them but we got to use our minds to revolutionize.

 

[LeroyDibiase]

Why won't Columbia release the security tapes????

 

[Megatron X]

I get sick of hearing how other minority groups don't want to have anything to do with blacks. Fuck them all. They have no problem wanting your help when whites turn against them. Fuck em.

 

[water]

This is how you fight back...........





Cop files suit saying he too found a hangman's rope


Thursday, October 11th 2007, 4:00 AM

Detective Gregory Anderson says he found noose at locker.







A Brooklyn detective says he found a noose hanging over his locker at an Emergency Service Unit squad - which some cops allegedly call the "Slave Ship" because of the large number of black officers assigned there.


Gregory Anderson, 45, a former Marine who served in Operation Desert Storm, has filed a federal suit claiming he was run out of the unit after he complained about racial discrimination at Squad 8 in Williamsburg.


Anderson, a 14-year veteran, claims his partner, who also is black, was called a "n-----" by a white cop. Anderson also says he was denied overtime tours because of his race.
He said the worst incident took place May 12, 2001, when he found the noose.
"It was no joke because a noose represents hatred," Anderson said. "It represents a period of African-American history that is very painful."


Anderson said the nooses recently found at Columbia University and a Hempstead, L.I., police station stirred up his feelings of revulsion.


"I think my career in the NYPD is over but I'm going to stand my ground," he said.
Anderson said white cops referred to Squad 8 as the "Slave Ship" because there may have been more African-American cops assigned there than in other ESU units. A black sergeant assigned to Squad 8, Rodney Gillis, died on 9/11 when the World Trade Center collapsed.


"I'll never forget my last evaluation from [Gillis] in which he said I was an inspiration to emergency service," Anderson said.


His lawyer Eric Sanders, of the firm of Jeffrey L. Goldberg in Lake Success, L.I., said the detective told a supervisor about the noose and alerted the NYPD office of equal employment opportunity.


Sanders said he doesn't know what happened to the internal investigation.


A spokeswoman for the city Law Department said the federal suit is being "thoroughly evaluated." The spokeswoman declined to comment further.

 

[pjonez2]

Now the question is... what can we hang in front of Whitey's door?

can't think of nothing...

They got the hate game on lock!!

 

[PEACE1]

Hang pictures of all these white bitches sucking 13 inch black dicks. That's what!!!

We all know the only reason why they despise us, is because we are the original man!!! They are an inadequate genetically mutated race! Who happen to, on average have tiny dicks! They've shown there envy of the black male genetalia over the past hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.

Hanging postcards with those depictions would strike a nerve in them, just as great as those cowards hanging nooses, that strangled our grandparents.

 

[Thick Johnson]

Everyone go out and hang nooses tonight

 

[JofromthaNO]

Why won't Columbia release the security tapes????

They did release the tapes. President Furhman was waiting for the subpoena, and did release the tapes. Go to Teachers College (TC) website to understand her reaction to that. It was mistaken media coverage that made it seem like TC was holding out on the cops...

Being an alumni, I know how much money TC would miss if "minorities" took their monies elsewhere...cause TC ain't cheap...

We don't pull from Columbia's monies like that. TC was a separate entity for the longest from Columbia, but, joined the college in the 1900s.

 

[Thick Johnson]

Hang pictures of all these white bitches sucking 13 inch black dicks. That's what!!!

We all know the only reason why they despise us, is because we are the original man!!! They are an inadequate genetically mutated race! Who happen to, on average have tiny dicks! They've shown there envy of the black male genetalia over the past hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.

Hanging postcards with those depictions would strike a nerve in them, just as great as those cowards hanging nooses, that strangled our grandparents.

Its not that serious and it aint over dicks they are just hatefilled.

If you notice they fight each other over religion and other stupid shit when niggas are nowhere around.

Born hate filled and destructive.

 

[LeroyDibiase]

They did release the tapes. President Furhman was waiting for the subpoena, and did release the tapes. Go to Teachers College (TC) website to understand her reaction to that. It was mistaken media coverage that made it seem like TC was holding out on the cops...

Being an alumni, I know how much money TC would miss if "minorities" took their monies elsewhere...cause TC ain't cheap...

We don't pull from Columbia's monies like that. TC was a separate entity for the longest from Columbia, but, joined the college in the 1900s.

Aight, last I checked they hadn't been released.

 

[brohammus]

good info.... I really wish there was an eaiser way to throw this info out into the public, espically to those crakas who swear that 'this does not exsist'. propos to all who work hard to keep us educated and in the know..

 

[logic_2012]

killing/disrespecting black people is what america is all about

I honestly think this is a good thing cause its gonna wake a lot of people up....

THEY HATEEEEEEEEEEE US...Niggas think shit is sweet cause of civil rights and they living "nice" now...

The hearts of the people ain't changed a bit..its all undercover (for now)
but its all gonna blow up sooner than you think..

don't blame the white man...the problem is US..if we had our right minds
we'd know not to fuck with this culture and people AT ALL

MLK intergrated us into a burning house....GET OUT OF BABYLON

 

[water]

They did release the tapes. President Furhman was waiting for the subpoena, and did release the tapes. Go to Teachers College (TC) website to understand her reaction to that. It was mistaken media coverage that made it seem like TC was holding out on the cops...

Being an alumni, I know how much money TC would miss if "minorities" took their monies elsewhere...cause TC ain't cheap...

We don't pull from Columbia's monies like that. TC was a separate entity for the longest from Columbia, but, joined the college in the 1900s.

Columbia reverses course, agrees to give cops noose video

BY ALISON GENDAR and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, October 11th 2007, 5:52 PM
After stonewalling cops for more than 24 hours, Columbia University has agreed to hand over security tapes that could help ID the person who left a hangman's noose on a black professor's office door.



The Ivy League school initially told cops they needed a subpoena to get a look at security tapes from Teachers College and the names of students in Professor Madonna Constantine's classes.


Cops then spent hours putting together the legal paperwork and getting a judge to sign off on the court order around midnight last night, they said.


They were about to serve the subpoena on Columbia when the university flip-flopped - after getting media inquiries - and agreed to hand over 56 hours of tape.


"It's unfortunate because it adds a time-consuming step to the investigation," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said of Columbia's refusal to assist the investigation voluntarily.


Columbia spokeswoman Diane Dobry refused to answer questions about the delay, issuing a statement that said only: "We are giving the tapes to the police."
The noose, left dangling outside Constantine's office on W. 120th St., was discovered by her colleagues Tuesday morning.


University officials have strongly condemned the incident, holding a rally and community forum at the same time they were giving cops the run-around.


Constantine, a psychology and education expert who specializes in race relations, said when she was summoned to the school and saw the noose, she wept.
"Tears really sprang to my eyes," she told ABC's "Good Morning America."
"I'd never had a moment like that in my life. It was difficult. It was also quite embarrassing, I felt."

Investigators have no suspects. They have questioned a number of Columbia staffers including a professor who was sued for defamation by Constantine.









Those employers need to get sued...............

 

[CidHamet]

ain't nothing changed since Roots but the packaging

especially cuz most of us keep

 

[Actor4Truth]

killing/disrespecting black people is what america is all about

I honestly think this is a good thing cause its gonna wake a lot of people up....

THEY HATEEEEEEEEEEE US...Niggas think shit is sweet cause of civil rights and they living "nice" now...

The hearts of the people ain't changed a bit..its all undercover (for now)
but its all gonna blow up sooner than you think..

don't blame the white man...the problem is US..if we had our right minds
we'd know not to fuck with this culture and people AT ALL

MLK intergrated us into a burning house....GET OUT OF BABYLON

Co-Sign.. You speaking the TRUTH Brotha...! wepraise:
To quote the Honerable Minister Farrakhan- "The House is Burning, we don't see the fire.. But the house IS Burning..!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEKS5iPtDs

 

[JofromthaNO]

Columbia reverses course, agrees to give cops noose video

BY ALISON GENDAR and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, October 11th 2007, 5:52 PM
After stonewalling cops for more than 24 hours, Columbia University has agreed to hand over security tapes that could help ID the person who left a hangman's noose on a black professor's office door.



The Ivy League school initially told cops they needed a subpoena to get a look at security tapes from Teachers College and the names of students in Professor Madonna Constantine's classes.


Cops then spent hours putting together the legal paperwork and getting a judge to sign off on the court order around midnight last night, they said.


They were about to serve the subpoena on Columbia when the university flip-flopped - after getting media inquiries - and agreed to hand over 56 hours of tape.


"It's unfortunate because it adds a time-consuming step to the investigation," Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said of Columbia's refusal to assist the investigation voluntarily.


Columbia spokeswoman Diane Dobry refused to answer questions about the delay, issuing a statement that said only: "We are giving the tapes to the police."
The noose, left dangling outside Constantine's office on W. 120th St., was discovered by her colleagues Tuesday morning.


University officials have strongly condemned the incident, holding a rally and community forum at the same time they were giving cops the run-around.


Constantine, a psychology and education expert who specializes in race relations, said when she was summoned to the school and saw the noose, she wept.
"Tears really sprang to my eyes," she told ABC's "Good Morning America."
"I'd never had a moment like that in my life. It was difficult. It was also quite embarrassing, I felt."

Investigators have no suspects. They have questioned a number of Columbia staffers including a professor who was sued for defamation by Constantine.









Those employers need to get sued...............

Not that I'm up agreeing with the efforts of the college, but I'm probably sure that the college was deliberating over what were the right steps to do, until finally it dawned and them to cooperate more so than to follow "usual procedures." The general counsel to the college IS an African American woman who I'm sure was concerned of violating FERPA laws (the past few years, the college has held MANY seminars and workshops for not only faculty and staff, but also graduate assistants and students of the college). Bottom line, I'm sure the college did not want to release the identity of students to the police, but that's just my thinking out loud.

 

[water]

Not that I'm up agreeing with the efforts of the college, but I'm probably sure that the college was deliberating over what were the right steps to do, until finally it dawned and them to cooperate more so than to follow "usual procedures." The general counsel to the college IS an African American woman who I'm sure was concerned of violating FERPA laws (the past few years, the college has held MANY seminars and workshops for not only faculty and staff, but also graduate assistants and students of the college). Bottom line, I'm sure the college did not want to release the identity of students to the police, but that's just my thinking out loud.

I'm sure the college did not want to release the identity of students to the police





you mean some corporate stop snitching movement????

 

[TheDynasty]

Black Columbia Professor finds Hangman's
Noose Outside Her Office​

​

Times Online
October 10, 2007
By Philippe Naughton

black professor at Columbia University's Teachers College has discovered a hangman's noose hanging on her office door in the latest in a series of copycat racist incidents across the United States.

The president of the New York education college, Susan H. Fuhrman, sent an e-mail yesterday to its 5,000 students and 150 faculty staff explaining why police had been called on to campus.

“The Teachers College community and I deplore this hateful act, which violates every Teachers College and societal norm,” the statement said.

The school has not identified the teacher, but a student newspaper named her as Madonna Constantine, 44, a psychology professor who has written widely about racism.

Nooses, reviled by many as symbols of lynchings in the Old South, have been in the news recently because of a case in Jena, Louisiana, where three white students hung nooses from a 'whites-only' oak tree outside a high school.

The three were suspended but not prosecuted. But racial tensions rose after a white student was beaten unconscious three months later and thousands of people later protested against the arrest for that attack of six black students – dubbed 'the Jena 6'.

Since that case there have been at least a dozen copycat incidents reported in American newspapers.

But the case at the Columbia Teachers College, the top-ranked teacher training school in the United States and a liberal stronghold, is seen as especially shocking. “You would think, Columbia being such a diverse campus and New York being such a diverse city, it shouldn’t happen here,” said Mikayla Graham, a Teachers College student.

The Columbia Spectator reported that 150 students gathered at the college last night to discuss the incident and there will be a "black-clad" student protest against it later today.

It said that the noose incident follows "a series of politically and racially charged events" in recent weeks, including a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who shocked students by denying that there were any homosexuals in his country.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2629185.ece

This and other related events that are taking place each and everyday smells fishy. This looks like "COINTELPRO Part 2"..especially with Columbia refusing to turn over evidence revealing the purpetrator and the judge in Jena has JUST ordered Mychal Bell back to jain. You should all know that a lot of high level white folks have been planning for all out race riots in this country, especially seeing as their plan to ship us back to the motherland failed (Liberia)..Consider it well, that Pres. Bush would like nothing more than to find an excuse to declare marshal law and attempt to destroy us at the same time.

 

[cuzzin]

I hope nas don't make a song referencing all these noose hangings considering what he wanted to do to jay at summerjam.

 

[nyyank78]

NYPD: Noose Found Dangling Outside Post Office

NYPD: Noose Found Dangling Outside Post Office

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police were grappling Friday with two separate incidents of someone stringing up nooses in public places -- one at Columbia University and another outside a ground zero post office damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said there were no suspects in either incident, which both occurred this week on opposite ends of Manhattan.

At Columbia, detectives were still reviewing 56 hours of security camera images captured by seven security cameras in and around the building where the noose was discovered early Tuesday morning hanging from the doorknob of a black professor's office, Browne said.

In the second case, a noose was discovered Thursday dangling from a lamppost near the lower Manhattan post office. Building managers removed the noose, which was later turned over to the NYPD's hate crimes unit for investigation, police said.

"At this point, there was no target that was evident or any motive,'' U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokesman Al Weissman said Friday morning. He said no postal workers had reported any threats or other problems.

The post office at 90 Church St. was closed for nearly three years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, which left the 15-story building contaminated with asbestos, mercury and debris from the fallen twin towers.

Students, faculty and administrators at Columbia have denounced the attack on professor Madonna Constantine, 44, a professor of education and psychology who has written extensively about race.

Police were testing the 4-foot-long piece of twine for DNA evidence and interviewing students and faculty.

Among those questioned was another Teachers College professor, Suniya S. Luthar, who had feuded with Constantine; police said she was not considered a suspect.

Meanwhile, police were called to the Ivy League campus again Thursday to probe another troubling discovery -- a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika found on a university bathroom stall door.

The hate crime unit was investigating the black-ink drawing, but police said there was no reason to believe the two incidents were linked.

University President Lee Bollinger said the sketch was promptly removed, adding that he was reluctant to call attention to such drawings because he did not want to ``broadcast, in any way, the message they attempt to send or empower those behind them.''

Nooses, charged with symbolism of lynchings in the Old South, have appeared in recent incidents around the country. Three white students hung nooses from a big oak tree outside a high school last year in Jena, La., fueling racial tensions. More recently, nooses have been found at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., and the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on Long Island.

 

[nyyank78]

NYPD: Noose Found Dangling Outside Post Office

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police were grappling Friday with two separate incidents of someone stringing up nooses in public places -- one at Columbia University and another outside a ground zero post office damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said there were no suspects in either incident, which both occurred this week on opposite ends of Manhattan.

At Columbia, detectives were still reviewing 56 hours of security camera images captured by seven security cameras in and around the building where the noose was discovered early Tuesday morning hanging from the doorknob of a black professor's office, Browne said.

In the second case, a noose was discovered Thursday dangling from a lamppost near the lower Manhattan post office. Building managers removed the noose, which was later turned over to the NYPD's hate crimes unit for investigation, police said.

"At this point, there was no target that was evident or any motive,'' U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokesman Al Weissman said Friday morning. He said no postal workers had reported any threats or other problems.

The post office at 90 Church St. was closed for nearly three years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, which left the 15-story building contaminated with asbestos, mercury and debris from the fallen twin towers.

Students, faculty and administrators at Columbia have denounced the attack on professor Madonna Constantine, 44, a professor of education and psychology who has written extensively about race.

Police were testing the 4-foot-long piece of twine for DNA evidence and interviewing students and faculty.

Among those questioned was another Teachers College professor, Suniya S. Luthar, who had feuded with Constantine; police said she was not considered a suspect.

Meanwhile, police were called to the Ivy League campus again Thursday to probe another troubling discovery -- a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika found on a university bathroom stall door.

The hate crime unit was investigating the black-ink drawing, but police said there was no reason to believe the two incidents were linked.

University President Lee Bollinger said the sketch was promptly removed, adding that he was reluctant to call attention to such drawings because he did not want to ``broadcast, in any way, the message they attempt to send or empower those behind them.''

Nooses, charged with symbolism of lynchings in the Old South, have appeared in recent incidents around the country. Three white students hung nooses from a big oak tree outside a high school last year in Jena, La., fueling racial tensions. More recently, nooses have been found at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., and the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on Long Island.

 

[JofromthaNO]

I'm sure the college did not want to release the identity of students to the police





you mean some corporate stop snitching movement????

Nahh...FERPA protects student data not being released to unnecessary parties, even in legal actions. Student data, particularly at Columbia, involves their social security numbers, grades, etc.

 

[Solar7]

White folks keep doing shit like this ..... and Black Folks will wake-up .... all they're doing is kicking a sleeping giant


cowardly ass crackers - sneaking around leaving nooses probably same type of racist assholes that
talk big and bold on the Internet - while they're safely behind their monitor

co-sign...as I ask is that they stand up and be seen...but cowards never will. The great fulcrum is that we have just as many guns as they do, to be real on it, and they don't want none...
I'm ready and I raise my sons to be ready.

 

[Megatron X]

All I can say is what goes around comes around. All of the evil that's been done to blacks up to this very second will come back to whitey. They know they have done us wrong for centuries. What makes anybody think that shit won't happen to them?

I don't give a fuck about those other groups: Arabs, Asians, and Latinos. They ain;t friends. They act white towards niggas too. Fuck them. I hope blacks see that they're not friends either.

Right now I ready, I feel it's the black man's time. Malcolm X said that the black man will rule in the end, it's prophsised. I see whites and they mean nothing to me no more. I respect them just as long as they respect me. But most of them are evil and god will punish them for good.

 

[Megatron X]

I remember having a conversation with a black female(she fucks with some Spanish dude) who has a nice job. I was telling her about the black struggle of the sixties. I was telling her about the lynchings. I also told her that the reason that she has that job and other blacks is that blacks died, protested, marched, did sit ins, and had forced a legislation to pass.

Her reactions (I'm Paraphrasing) "I dont care about those people or what happen then" I lost all respect for her when she said that. It's bad enough to be ignorant but when you dis the people who shed blood so you'd have it better today, you're my enemy. I did not care if she was black or not. You don't dis those blacks.

Even if she was ignorant, she still does not have the right to disrespect the civil rights people from the sixties.

 

[XavierBlack]

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

-- Gil Scott Heron

 

[be_god]

White people are real slick. Now watch these bastards pay some black guy to "get caught" hangin a noose outside another black person's office and say these were just cruel jokes to divide the country and that racism is not as bad as people are making it out to be. Just watch!

word.

 

[kissmyazz]

until we retaliate this shit will continue.......we have too many coons and criminals without cause to be united

 

[Rudey]

White America making a mockery of the whole Jena 6 situation ,and this is why I laughed at Black people who love to defend White ppl.Look how many Black ppl was defending Imus,now where is all the White protesters in this case?

 

[yesabossa]

This Is AmeriKKKa!!!!!! What Else Is New!
I'll Tell You What Would Be Some News If All Black Folk Got Together And Stoped Shopping In White Owned Stores,Took There Children Out Of White Schools & Built Our Own,Got Rid Of The Racist Police & Had Our Own Peace Officers...That Would Be Some News!!!! Until Shyt Like That Go Down ... Complain About A Noose!!!!

 

[DollarDay]

they are bullying black people publicly. what are we gonna do about it?

 

[Piankhi]

Respect!

I told folk I wasn't even surprised so i was going to continue studying for mid-terms instead of protesting, marching, & taking away time from my classes. One of the worst things I can do to them is get my MA from an ivy league institution.

This kind of shit oft times happens around midterms disrupting the flow of Black students & making them do poorly on mid-terms.