re: Petition calling for Dan Jones' resignation

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“If I could do one thing, the place would never be called Ole Miss again,” history professor Charles Eagles told The New York Times in February .

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He's entitled to his opinion, just like we are.

I'm so fricking tired of our fans. Thank God we're less than three weeks away from football.

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What is the "historical meaning" of "ole miss" and please don't tell me wikipidea or someone making shite up. It was the nickname for the yearbook back in the day. show me some real historical data showing that it means the plantation owners wife. Nothing more, nothing less. The majority of people starting shite have an agenda outside of OM.

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LINK

Interviews from the 1930s of 85 year old lady who was a former slave. If this isn't enough proof for you I don't know what is. There are hundreds of interviews from former Mississippi and slaves from the south. This was done by the Library of Confress in 1936-1939.

Interviewer: Watt McKinney
Person interviewed: Lucian Abernathy, Marvell, Arkansas
Age: 85


"I was borned in de 'streme norf part of Mississippi nigh de Tennessee line. You mought say dat it was 'bout straddle of de state line and it wasn't no great piece from where us libed to Moscow what was de station on de ole Memfis en Charston Railroad. My white folks was de Abernathys. You neber do hear 'bout many folks wid dat name these times, leastwise not ober in dis state, but dere sure used to be heap of dem Abernathys back home where I libed and I spect dat mebbe some dere yit en cose it's bound to be some of the young uns lef' dar still, but de ole uns, Mars Luch en dem, dey is all gone.

"Mars Luch, he was my young boss. Though he name was Lucian us all called him Luch and dat was who I is named for. Ole mars, he was name Will and dat was Mars Luch's pa and my ole miss, she name Miss Cynthia and young miss, her name Miss Ellen. Ole mars an' ole miss, dey just had de two chillun, Mars Luch and Miss Ellen; dat is what libed to be grown. Mars Luch, he 'bout two year older dan me and Miss Ellen, she 'bout two year older dan Mars Luch. Miss Ellen, she married er gentman from Virginny and went dar to lib and Mars Luch, he married Miss Fannie Keith.

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Hopefully we can get off to a good start so a certain portion of the fan base will stop bitching and moaning so much.

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Yeah, maybe by then they'll believe that they stopped the administration from changing the name, and they'll be over it.

Yeah I'm not sure what Elma Meek intent was, but for some to say the word being used to describe the slave owner wife was just wikipedia BS is just wrong.

There are even cited instances where the slave master was referred to as Old, Ole (last name), or Mars for master.

all of this boils down to one thing....



...we have idiots losing their shite thinking Dan Jones is taking Ole Miss away from them even though Dan Jones is specifically stating that we will be using Ole Miss even more than before.


to summarize it.

idiot- "frick you dan jones. Don't take Ole Miss away"

Dan Jones- "we aren't taking Ole Miss away. In fact, Ole Miss is an integral part of our national branding and we will market that name even more"

idiot- "frick YOU DAN JONES. DON'T TAKE OLE MISS AWAY!!!!!!"







this is what is happening. But you can't argue with the idiots because they'll just say some tired bullshite like "well if you just read between the lines...."

"reading between the lines" is and always has been a bullshite line people use to try and justify a conclusion that they've come up with....

The Plantation narrative was literally on the school website for YEARS. It wasn't just made up, it was in the about us section of the schools website. Some PR genius thought "hey this is dumb as frick" 3 years ago and they took it down. I remember it vividly.

this is exactly right and something that the school needs to emphasize. One way to do that might be to get the damn wickipedia page changed.

This is monumentally stupid.

MAKE IT STOP