Is it possible? AN UPDATE

Last Sunday (November 30th) I posted a story about TOB's unusual (middle finger) Thanksgiving message to the good people of Lake Worth, Florida...and the world, for that matter. I penned a humorous take on the hand gesture that you can see here. This is the picture to which I refer:

As you can see, the subject in the picture, or as I refer to her, "The Other Blogger" (TOB) is clearly using her middle finger to point to a cake she received as a gift. Here is a close-up:

Try doing this hand gesture right now. Fold your pinky and ring fingers into your palm and extend all the other fingers. Very uncomfortable and awkward isn't it? What if you were aware of the possibility that this hand gesture was perhaps intentional and meant to be an inflammatory insult, on Thanksgiving Day of all days? I received an email from a reader yesterday that explains it all.

TOB's hand gesture is forming the letters 'V' and 'L'. This is the hand signal used by the Vice Lords gang. You can see that hand signal here:

The image above comes from the Genoa, IL PD to identify Vice Lords gang members.

The Vice Lords are an African-American gang that originated in Chicago, IL in 1958. They now operate in over 30 states in the United States, including Florida, and are reported to have 35,000 members. They are believed to be the second largest African-American gang and by far the most violent.

TOB imagines herself a citizen of good sound judgement. On Thanksgiving Day...a day to give Thanks and Blessing, just three days after the Michael Brown grand jury decision, this picture was taken of herself taunting or mocking one of the most violent gangs in the United States, the Vice Lords? The timing couldn't be worse.

President Abraham Lincoln, who created Thanksgiving Day, in his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865, said "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."