USA, even Oregon wants to ban the noose as a symbol of racism

2021-03-05T18:55:42.122Z

The bill under consideration in Oregon would make exposing a noose a felony punishable by up to one year in prison and a $ 6,250 fine. Previously, the states of Louisiana, Virginia, California, New York, Maryland and Connecticut had criminalized the public display of the noose. In the state of Virginia, the public display of the noose includes imprisonment for up to 5 years. The reason for the noose ban: the allusion to the lynching of African Americans which, according to the report of the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative, caused thousands of victims in the period between the American Civil War and the Second World War. Greg Evans, a black man who joined a procession of witnesses urging Oregon lawmakers to ban the noose display, said the matter was personal to him: a member of his family had been lynched more than one. century ago in South Carolina. "He was killed basically for offending a white man," testified Evans, a member of the Eugene City Council. "He was hung with a noose. His body was riddled with shots and then burned."