Another Noose

The principal of Canarsie High School in Brooklyn was recently the target of racist threats.

Tyona Washington received a letter and a string tied into a noose at the High School yesterday. Police said the package contained a single-page document with "anti-black" remarks and a string that resembled a hang mans noose.

This is the most recent racial attack to hit this city and the nation. In the past month a black professor at the prestigious Columbia University found a noose hanging on her office door and a black man in Staten Island was attacked by four white men. In the Staten Island case, police officials determined the incident was not racially motivated and was not going to be tried as a hate crime.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he will announce a major national march that will likely he held on Nov. 16 to demand federal intervention in the outbreak of hate crimes around the country.