October 7th 2023.
Halloween decorations are usually meant to bring cheer and joy to the festivities, but two displays in particular have sparked a controversy in Georgia and Houston, Texas.
In Georgia, Rachel, a resident of Barton County, had put up a decoration outside her home for her children, but it was torn down by a passerby who considered it to be racist. After the incident, she put it back up, but eventually took it down for good. The Bartow County NAACP President, Dexter Benning, expressed his concerns about the decorations, saying that it appeared to be depicting a Black person due to the brown gloves on the dummy's hands.
In Houston, a similar display outside a Third Ward house caused an uproar from the local NAACP chapter and the community. James Dixon, the president of Houston's NAACP chapter, described it as 'immeasurably insensitive and racist'. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, District D City Council member, knocked on the man's door to inform him that the decorations were offensive, but he refused to come outside.
The situation was resolved when activists Quanell X and Candice Matthews went to the man's home and cut the decoration out of the tree. Dixon mentioned that there needs to be an effort from elected officials to educate people about lynchings in America, so that similar incidents don't occur in the future.
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