I hear the N-word all the time, from black people, and I make that gesture all the time, as a signal that I'm doing good/everything's under control.

So what's the point of this article? The author's gut says it was a racially motivated what, joke? It really seems like the article exists to cast stones at the students and any white Wisconsinites who might be fairly associated with them. And the call to action is for the men in the photo to attend rallies? What a disjointed bunch of bologna.

More in the city of Baraboo must be done to ensure ignorance about historical bigotry doesn't remain in place.

Sounds like the kind of noncommittal hemming and hawing made people who are upset about bigotry but don't have the wherewithal to combat it honestly and so attribute it to us all and "combat" it by calling us all passively racist.