http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/20/So...play_see.shtml
It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf.
Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale neighborhood.
To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration.
But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate.
"There is no history of hanging ghouls in this country but there is a history of hanging African people," said Yeshitela, leader of the St. Petersburg-based group.
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