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Conservative Facebook group calls for the lynching of President Obama to become a national holiday

Remember the days when African-Americans had to regularly worry about segregation, lynchings, and the Ku Klux Klan? Well, one conservative Facebook group would like to carry on the tradition of lynching, and not just any African-American, but the President of the United States - Barack Obama. The Facebook group "America the next generation" recently posted a photo of President Obama in a noose, which included a caption that read, "The making of a National Holiday." After receiving plenty of criticism for the post, the creator of it took it down and posted the following message: "OK by are own choice out of respect of our regular followers that requested us to remove the post with the noose around Obamas head, [W]e did so out of Respect to them and we will take the high road!" Yes, because posting a picture of our first African-American being hung and saying that it would be reason enough for a national holiday before removing said photo is definite...