New air date for CNN’s “The Noose: An American Nightmare” doc…
CNN announced a new air date for its “The Noose: An American Nightmare”. The CNN Special Investigations Unit special will now premiere on November 1st at 8pm ET…
Since July, there have been more than a dozen reported incidents of nooses being displayed around the nation apparently intended to intimidate black people. CNN investigates whether the upsurge in these acts are associated with the events surrounding “The Jena 6″ in Louisiana or part of a growing, more widespread racial intolerance. CNN’s Kyra Phillips, who recently reported the network’s in-depth investigation, Judgment in Jena, will anchor a special one-hour report, CNN: Special Investigations Unit – The Noose: An American Nightmare, Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. The Noose premieres one day before “National Black Out Day,” an economic boycott expected to be supported by thousands across the country to protest racial and economic injustices.
The documentary will replay Saturday, Nov. 3, and Sunday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. All times Eastern.
Nooses have been found in small towns like Winchester, Ky. and Elgin, Ill., as well as in cities like Philadelphia and New York, where a noose was hung on the door of a Columbia University professor’s office. The Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn., is also investigating two separate noose incidents.Through interviews with historian James Allan and Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Phillips will trace America’s history of lynchings, an atrocity that gives the noose its horrifying meaning. Phillips also examines law enforcement efforts led by the bias crimes coordinator with Nassau County ( N.Y.) Police, which tracks downs those who commit hate crimes. She also talks to educators in Philadelphia on what young people are being taught about the nation’s history of racial hatred.
The Noose is produced by David Fitzpatrick, Alison Ginsberg, Julie O’Neill and Michelle Rozsa. The managing editor is Steve Robinson. The vice president and senior executive producer of CNN Productions is Mark Nelson; the executive director of CNN Productions is Jody Gottlieb.
It would be great if CNN could answer this question, who hung the noose on a Columbia Professors door..given there are video cameras, how come this hasn’t been solved? It is a mystery.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/30/whats-the-latest-on-the-columbia-noose-incident/
Comment by Ree — October 31, 2007 @ 12:27 pm
^ That is a good question…just how many of these noose incidents are real or are just made up..but CNN is just pandering so those questions won’t be asked.
Comment by mlong — October 31, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
“The Noose: An American Nightmare” WHAT! How about 350 Murders in Philly?
Comment by SHANE — November 1, 2007 @ 5:19 am
More CNN race baiting? YAWN…..
Comment by spiffo — November 1, 2007 @ 11:39 am
I want to thank you for airing this issue, especially knowing someone will make silly comments that don’t have anything to do with what was aired last night. I appreciate the focus, pictures, names and the awareness of how bad black men and women were treated and how it still continues to this day. Thank you Carolyn Elaine
Comment by Carolyn — November 2, 2007 @ 9:15 am
This program seemed very sincere. The information was all correct. Here in the south of the United States racism is very alive today. The attitude which caused people to plan and execute lynchings exixts just barely hidden under the caution they have to take today for fear of prosecution…
fear that simply did not exist - nor was necessary - during the dark period depicted in James Allen’s “Without Sanctuary”. If you take the magnifying glass and look at the situation in so many black homes and communities as a whole, you will clearly see that from slavery through today, no one has ever given the black man anything, he has had to fight hard for everything he has gotten, and injustice, and dehumanization takes place daily. As James Allen said in the documentary aired here…”white, Christian America has become desensitized to black pain”…no matter how the racists cry and pout and try to make it look otherwise…what goes around comes around…and there is no way around that. Look out people, it’s coming back on you.
Sadly, probably even then….there won’t be repentance from this sector which believes in white supremacy. So sad.
Comment by marta — November 5, 2007 @ 2:06 am
So, apparently these “justice seekers” were more HUMAN than their castrated, oiled, feathered, burned, hung victims? Huh???? I’m confused….
Comment by Julie — November 5, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Sadly to say, we as a race intimidate the ignorant, the sad, the jealous and people who have too much time on their hands then to channel their energy into good things. I pray that Martin Luther King, Jr. has that special wish that comes true, I just don’t think I’ll live to see it. I find there’s one intimidated ONE at each and every job I have, usually female. Bill Cosby said something very interesting…he said, “Hurt people, hurt people.” Sad but true. I will pray for my enemies as I pull the daggers out of my back.
Comment by HF — November 7, 2007 @ 10:52 am
I missed the broadcast of this important documentary and am hoping it will be shown again on CNN. If so, when? If not, how can I get a copy?
Comment by Jane Erdenberger — November 11, 2007 @ 2:05 pm