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re: Rumors out of Oxford.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:13 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:13 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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Your 16 ACT is showing.
Almost double that. 31.
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If you can't understand that the Confederate flag hurts Mississippi's football fortunes, you may not have even scored that high.
MS football fortunes are not of my concern. Why would they be?
I was simply taught from an early age that I should respect those that came before me. It has absolutely nothing to do with race. It's history. It's not something you can sweep under the rug and forget about, or act like it was never there.
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Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:15 pm to Grovewater
I couldn't agree with you more. BUT, living in a free country is what it is. if and it's a BIG IF, people could keep their emotions in check a rally of any kind would be ok.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 5:27 pm to OMLandshark
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So let's say they were Germans and marched for Hitler. Would you hang up a Nazi flag all over the place?
Thank you for your almost literate comparison of apples and oranges.
1. Civil War - Fought under the false belief that African American slaves were an inferior subspecies of human, which was actually a common belief at the time. However, the war was fought over economics. The South relied heavily upon agriculture, which in turn relied upon slave labor. There were no combines or cotton pickers in 1861. They saw the abolition of slavery as a threat which would greatly slash profit margins. Big business does the same thing today. They protect their profit margins.
2. Nazi's - Sought the absolute destruction of an entire race from the face of the earth. They too, were of a false belief, but it was that Jews were an inferior species. However, that belief had been indoctrinated into the people, and it is also the one and only commonality between them and the Civil War.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 6:51 pm to Rougarou13
This discussion belongs on the politics board, but it is ridiculous for anyone to believe that the Civil War was fought over anything other than slavery. Couch it in "states' rights" or economics all you want, but it was certainly "states' right to allow slavery" or "economics of slavery."
Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:42 pm to BamaNixon
Then why didn't Lincoln free the slaves in the NORTHERN states? The slaves were a political pawn to end the war.
Licoln said if freeing the slaves would end the war, he would free them but if NOT freeing the slaves would end the war, he would also NOT free them.
Seems the commander-in-chief of the Northern troops was willing to sacrifice principle ( slavery) over political expediency ( his side winning)!
Licoln said if freeing the slaves would end the war, he would free them but if NOT freeing the slaves would end the war, he would also NOT free them.
Seems the commander-in-chief of the Northern troops was willing to sacrifice principle ( slavery) over political expediency ( his side winning)!
Posted on 10/16/15 at 7:50 pm to Grovewater
Look, I dislike Ole Miss just as much as the next guy, but no one really gave a flying frick one way or the other regarding the flag until the media tied the Charleston guy to it to increase viewers. What really needs to be done is people need to stop eating all of the garbage the media feeds.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 8:45 pm to Grovewater
quote:I knew a hiring manager out here in Colorado who would automatically throw resumes he received from any school in Mississippi in the trash.
it further degrades the market value of my degree.
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 8:47 pm
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