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A truck with a disturbing display is turning heads. The truck is hauling a trailer with eight mannequins hanging from ropes with nooses from a rafter…one of which is President Obama.

The mannequins are all dressed as different people, including North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and Senior Resident Superior Court Judge W. Douglas Parsons.

The truck is owned by a man who calls himself “Patriot Phipps” on YouTube. He says the truck was made to bring attention to a murder case for William Henry Phipps, who was shot and killed while he was riding down the highway with his father.

“You say it’s racism. I say it’s not. Absolutely not,” he insisted in a YouTube video from May 2012 that explains the display. “Had we been hanging people in effigy when George Bush was president, I would have hung him, no problem. It wouldn’t have been a problem at all.”

Phipps says that he took the display to New York City, sans President Obama, two years ago and “people hardly remember, hundreds of thousands of pictures was taken then.” He says they added the president to the display after a federal case into the murder investigation went nowhere.“Wouldn’t it have been better for Timothy McVey to do this, than what he done?” he asked at one point in the video. “We have nothing else.”

Phipps says that people don’t understand how long and how hard they have fought before going to this extreme.

“We did not want to do this, ” he said, gesturing to the mannequin display. “Mister Barack Obama can get down, he can get his mannequin down any time he wants to, but it is a federal investigation we are after.”

He says the display isn’t a racist display. “It is not our fault that Mister Barack Obama is President and he just happens to be black,” he said in the video. “We had nothing to do with it. That was God.”

He says be believes most people would do the same things in his situation. The truck has a sign reading “Obama on board. Dummies in nooses.”

via BlackMediaScoop

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