Is Okauchee Halloween display all in good fun? Or racist display?

TOWN OF OCONOMOWOC - A Halloween display in Okauchee has some people talking.

Amanda Lipski, who owns a two-story building on Wisconsin Avenue, is a Green Bay Packers fan and has a birthday on Halloween. Lipski and her roommate put several skeletons in Packers jerseys on a balcony overlooking other skeletons with opposing teams' jerseys hanging from a wire with ropes around their necks.

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Sherwin Hughes, the host of the radio talk show "The Forum," received a photo of the Halloween display and posted it on Facebook with the caption, "As seen in Waukesha County. Inappropriate? Racist? Or all in good fun?"

"To this individual (who sent Hughes the photo), the skeletons represented actual football players," Hughes said. "To the person that owns the property that made this Halloween display, they wanted to show teams that the Green Bay Packers would play and beat and that they were going to essentially hang them. I think it was taken way out of context, and somebody wanted to see something that really wasn't there."

Hughes' Facebook post received a variety of responses.

Lipski, who works as a senior loan officer at Commonwealth Mortgage Group in Pewaukee, said she never meant to offend anyone with the display and noted that before Hughes' Facebook post, the reaction from community members has been positive.

"There's a variety of white players and black players (jerseys) that are hanging," Lipski said. "It was really hard to find jerseys. I'm not going to buy the authentic NFL jerseys. We have just a Bears logo. We have a Cowboys logo that is just a Cowboys logo."

To Hughes, the display highlights how different people can see the same display in different ways.

"What I thought was fascinating about it is how someone can be excited about hanging those kinds of Halloween decorations and somebody else can see the exact same thing and think of some of the worst atrocities that have happened in American history," Hughes said. "I'm no stranger to those atrocities, but I think that if the individual who owns the property wanted to do something overtly racist, there are much more obvious things they could have done than hanging skeletons around Halloween wearing football jerseys of the teams that the Packers are going to play and hopefully beat."

Lipski said she will leave the display up; it has already been there for a couple weeks.

"It's very, very shocking that it became a conversational piece to bring up racial tensions," Lipski said. "For me, what was really disturbing, is these accusations can ruin somebody. I just moved here. I'm home here renovating the building and my sign of my business is in the window. ... To have somebody put it online and make it a conversational piece is really scary."