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# Noose picture was in poor taste
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/noose-picture-was-in-poor-taste-editor/
- Published: 2007-11-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:48:03.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Bob Wolff Santa Monica*

I would have thought with all the recent publicity about nooses and their symbolism to African-Americans that your paper would not put a picture on the front page where the central image is a noose hanging from a ficus tree (“Death takes a holiday,” Nov. 1).

This has nothing to do with the celebration of “Dia de los Muertos.”

An apology is in order.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)