Source: Whitesboro, New York, votes to keep village’s seal, despite allegations that it is racist, as it features a white man choking a Native American.

My first thought when I came across this story was that there was no way this could actually be true.  No place in America could really be represented by such imagery, right?  A white man choking a Native American, surely, there’s nothing wrong with that?

I honestly thought this was a fake, The Onion-like satire post that was kind of trying to go the route of Parks & Recreation, and all of the horrifically shameful murals all over Pawnee City Hall.  I mean, why wouldn’t artwork of a white guy choking an Indian go hand-in-hand with public bare-knuckle fighting between men and women?

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