Act

Stand up.

Whereas lynching in an American tragedy and a crime of racial and ethnic hatred, and
Whereas treating images of lynching as a subject of humor invites its trivialization, and
Whereas the trivialization of violence inspired by hatred invites its perpetration, and
Whereas the author of The Crows Nest has seen fit to include hateful ethnic slurs, slanderous accusations, and depictions of racially motivated killing in his recent "parody" of Freeport Politics,
Be it therefore resolved that the Freeport Town Council deplores, in the strongest possible terms, the promulgation of publications making light of murder, attacking individual Freeport citizens and Town employees with threats and ethnic slurs.
Be it further resolved that the Town Council views collaboration in the conception, design, or production of such materials as detrimental to the public interest.
Be it ordered that all Town officers and staff ensure this publication or any other such publication is not distributed on Town property.

Pass it.