Noose Removed From Grand Rapids Window After Viral Facebook Post Get our free mobile app The picture was posted by Kent County Commissioner Robert S. Womack and then went viral as many believed the noose was a racial statement. A part of the caption on the pic said: It is symbolic in the fact that we are so busy in self destruction that we don’t see the dark past hovering over us.. I see. Do you see? Wake up Grand Rapids Michigan! Wake up! I am screaming at the too of my lungs wake up! To the young black youth wake up!