re: "Ghosts of Ole Miss"

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I was expecting it to be an awesome perspective about the football team for 60 minutes with a ton of great interviews and newly uncovered facts, but instead it was wright Thompson filming himself writing on a pad and thinking about if that guy in the picture was his relative. Is he serious? He wasn't even at the riots and didn't go to ole miss. Nobody cares about your little side stories.

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an "awesome perspective" about an om football team in the 60's...without the racial storyline is lame bro. nobody cares. He is telling a story to a national audience. FWIW, i enjoyed the way he tried to relate the struggle b/t the past, present, and how mississippi is trying to move forward. it is a difficult issue to tackle and wright did a good job.

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The guy who wrote the article was from Oxford. The Director was not. The director controls the direction of the film. Northerner promoting controversy.

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I'm black, if anything the film helps Ole Miss. It told the history of students fighting in the War, why they have the mascot, name "rebels", etc.

Most people including myself probably thought the team back then was full of a bunch of racists. I had no idea they stayed away from the riots, controversy, etc. The film probably make people show a little more respect to those Ole Miss teams from back in the day. How they pulled together and continue to win with all the negativity around them.

Then he mentioned how the black population on campus is like 16-17%. Some people probably thought the only blacks that went to Ole Miss were the athletes.

The black girl mentioned how she only had one incident, how everybody else is nice to her, etc. Showed clips of blacks walking on campus, normal campus just like any other university.

If anything it'll help Ole Miss. More people will probably respect the school, football program, etc. More people understand the History of the School, name, etc.

There was nothing but positive things about the Ole Miss football team that got screwed by the voters because of the incidents.

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Can someone produce a link to this footage. I have heard several times from OM people that this happened and people videoed it on their phones but I have yet to see it and can't find it on YouTube

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Ole Miss people vs KKK

Guy should have showed this in the film. There's some cussing.

Well, I can honestly say I lived through this having been in Laurel(l962-64) and my wife being from Mississippi. Also, we had many problems in and around the Laurel area during that time. I know quite a few people who did some serious jail time during this period. This is the second time I have seen this in the past few years(or,another one just like it). I was confused when he mentioned Billy Cannon's famous run during the 1962 season. I must have misunderstood as Cannon made that run on haloween night, 1959?

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I was there screaming at the KKK people. I am on a couple of the videos. I was wasted at 8 AM though

There was this black marine there that was being having to be held back from wrecking those fools. Everyone was booing. It was a freedom of speech statement by some morons that was protected by our constitution and the national guard and the police and 100% of the Ole Miss fanbase was against it.

Those KKK morons weren't Ole Miss fans and weren't associated with the university at all.

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He's in the clip I posted.

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TheCaterpillar

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I remember that guy, he was awesome. I remember thinking it would probably take the entire police squad to keep him from doing something had those kkk guys said something back to him.

I'm still really surprised they were allowed on campus at that time. All the drunk people were such a huge safety hazard for them. But I'm glad that everyone bonded together against them. I doubt theyll ever come back because of that.

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I feel like I learned more about thompson's life than the riots and the football team.

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dude, he is telling "his" story. if you want more, go write and produce your own version.

It was not a hit piece. It was what happened. And, it was a big deal.

I am a born and raised Southerner, but honestly, I get pretty sick of white people saying that we should shut up about it because all of that is behind us and we aren't that way anymore.

White people in the South have been saying the exact same thing since around 1965. And, the idea that that generation didn't know any better is completely bogus. They knew better. They just convinced themselves that the rest of the world was wrong and they were right.

It comes down to only a few options when you look at all of our schools and the South back then. And, yes, I am talking about my parent and grandparents. Either,

1. We were stupid and didn't know any better.
2. We were a pathological society that was incapable of knowning right from wrong.
3. We knew better but didn't care because it benefitted us and as soon as it didn't benefit us, we stopped.
4. We were so prideful as to think that even though we were wrong, we were above it all because we were the glorious South.

I'm no carpetbagger. My ancestors fought in the Civil War and owned slaves. But, at some point, we need to recognize that talking about this is not bad. It is healthy.

Actually, everytime I hear a White person get upset because this stuff gets brought up, I know I am dealing with someone who does not want to deal with what has happened and the real implications for today.

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Hell some of the blacks are racist. I can remember ESPN did the piece about Alcorn State's first white HC. I believe it was "Outside The Lines". Said how the older blacks was pretty much pissed about it. I felt sorry for the guy. He's qualified, coached at schools like Michigan and some others. He's from Mississippi, wants to go home to Mississippi and Coach and people don't want him there because he's white.

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It just shows that people are really uncomfortable with change. It's sad and it's one of our biggest flaws as a group.