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Please Consider the Racial Impact of Your Halloween Decor

Oh, it’s that time of year again! So here is a PSA to remind you that when your Halloween decorations include hanging fake bodies from trees, please consider the extent to which they look like the scene of a lynching and how that might impact Black and brown families in your neighborhood. I see some of these “hanging figures” every year. Some I’d call benign — like what is clearly a little…