re: Former Ole Miss student who placed noose on James Meredith statue gets prison

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I disagree. Ole Miss has to deal with living under a microscope when it comes to racial issues and you have out of state dumbasses that come in and don't care. They go do stuff like this and it makes us look bad. I'm glad he got this sentence.

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Ole Miss expelled him, and rightly so. The guy was a racist idiot who I didn't want representing my university.

But to go to jail over this? Absolutely no. I can't think of anything that was technically illegal.

And what's going to happen in the long term? First off, we're burning 20k of the taxpayers dime to incarcerate him for really no reason. Then he's either going to get the dog shite kicked out of him daily in prison, or he's going to join the Aryan Brotherhood for protection. Either way he's going to be even more racist at the end of this. Instead they should have had him doing community service helping out impoverished minorities, and then he may have developed sympathy for their plight. Instead he's going to come out of this ruined and even more bigoted.

And fantastic job by his attorney BTW. Who would ever hire that guy?