[Elphaba]

I keep writing, and re-writing a post to the responses in my thread, and it's just not coming together yet.

But I will say this: There is absolutely no way the employees of the American Family Association did not know the image its product could convey.

The AFA is located in Tupelo, Mississippi. The same Mississippi where fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered after the monsters had beaten him and gouged his eyes out.

The same Neshoba County, Mississippi where three young men working for civil rights were murdered by the Klan in 1964. The movie "Mississippi Burning" is based on this incident.

The same Mississippi where racism is still insidious. The same Mississippi where the Ku Klux Klan is still going strong.

The same Mississippi where the AFA is located, where at least some of its employees must know what the KKK burning crosses look like, and that their product looks almost exactly the same, only smaller.

Was it malicious to include the cross in their product line? No, I don't think it was.

Was it callous to include the cross in their product line? I think so.

Was it immoral to include the cross, considering they're in Mississippi where they had to have known the image the cross could convey? In this atheist's opinion, absolutely.

Perhaps it's benign on a person's porch, as shown in the photo. I don't know.

But I guarantee the cross will also be planted next to the Confederate flag whose owner thinks it makes a statement, or because it's funny, or both.

And I do not believe this possibility never occurred to anyone in the company.

Not if they're from Mississippi.

Elphaba