re: "Ghosts of Ole Miss"

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I thought it was strange how he left out the footage of Ole Miss fans, alums, students yelling at the 2-3 KKK members, telling them to leave. I can remember seeing clips of that a few years ago that weekend they played LSU. I believe it was like 2 or 3 Klan members protesting, but there were a lot of people on campus that didn't want them there. I was waiting on that clip towards the end, but he never mentioned it.

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That would have been a nice addition.

And to the butthurt Ole Miss fans, what happened in 1962 wasn't "the same as every other school" - it was unique. Yes, everybody else was segregated and resisted integration, but for some reason WE became the focal point of this integration battle. People from all over the South came to Oxford to protest, which is why it got so violent and they had to call the National Guard in.

I mean come on, two people DIED ON OUR CAMPUS during those riots. To cheapen it by saying "oh well it happened everywhere else" is fricking bogus. We were the battleground for the entire Jim Crow loving South. That legacy is ours to bear and to grow from. We should be proud of that distinction, that we in a way get to be the standard by which the rest of the South is judged. It's a shitload of responsibility but I think we can handle it.

And to call a story written by a Mississippi native and Ole Miss season ticket holder a "hit piece" or whatever is fricking stupid.