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Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:39 pm to ohiovol
I didn't think anything could make me sympathize with Ole Miss but the criticisms of YStar and SlipperySlope have done just that.
NO ONE who is from Mississippi or Alabama, or is a fan of Bama or MSU, can criticize Ole Miss for a racist past, or assume a posture of moral superiority. For an Alabama graduate, George Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the Capstone is not something that I am proud of.
NO ONE who is from Mississippi or Alabama, or is a fan of Bama or MSU, can criticize Ole Miss for a racist past, or assume a posture of moral superiority. For an Alabama graduate, George Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the Capstone is not something that I am proud of.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:50 pm to YStar
Sorant, take it easy, you are gonna give Henry a heart attack.
Much respect.
Much respect.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:53 pm to deltaland
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Posted by deltaland on 3/2 at 8:15 pm to OBReb6 quote: Way better than Columbias and boots Now you just hold on for one fricking second.... p
Yea he needs to pump the brakes on this....
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:57 pm to NewtonCoTide646
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Many more states were racist 50 years ago.
For many years the most racist city in America was Miamisburg, Ohio. A suburb of Dayton. Still is very racist. More racist than anywhere I have lived/been in the south. The most racist people my age that I know were born and raised in New Hampshire. It isn't just a southern thing.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 12:04 am to Feral
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Cosigned.
The guy seriously littered shots of himself around Oxford all through the film, all while wearing a friggin derby hat.
The pic you posted of him is the epitome of self-asorbed douchyness
His voice doesn't even sound that good. People try to pass him off as the James Earl Jones/Morgan Freeman of the SEC.
As far as the self-absorbedness, I'm starting to find that increasingly commonplace with CFB writers.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 1:00 am to ztucke2
Not going to read the whole thread but I have seen this show 3 or 4 times. There was a lot of truth in there but much of the way that it was told and many things said about present day Ole Miss and the south seemed to be pandering to mass stereotypes and deliberately left open for misinterpretation. Then again, if you've spent any amount of time watching ESPN, you'd know that they're agenda driven first and facts come in a distant second. In other words, they're the MSNBC of sports...the only difference being that FOX doesn't dominate the sports market so ESPN actually has an audience.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 1:03 am to EastBankTiger
Missouri says hi from the moral high ground
Posted on 3/3/14 at 1:06 am to EKG
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Ole Miss continues to try to right its wrongs--so much so that I think they go overboard w it at times. Conversely, others should try to forgive ... though something tells me that those who've truly been victimized (not posters on a message board who have ulterior motives) are well on their way to doing so.
Pretty much this. If people outside the university would shut up about, maybe it would move on. But the problem with our past continues to linger because of outsiders such as the media who don't want to let it go. Only thing they want swept under the rug is the good that Ole Miss tries to do to right the wrong that happened.
What those 3 students did to the Meredith statue pissed me off. That is the last person who deserves to have their statue messed with. He sticks up for Ole Miss when all this racist stuff is brought up, more so than anybody I've seen. He was even asked about From Dixie With Love when we first took it away. He couldn't understand why we took it away and he was disappointed to see it go. But the media didn't want to use those quotes because it go against what they were trying to spew to the readers.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 1:29 am to YStar
This entire thread.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 2:30 am to greenbastard
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You weren't lying
Posted on 3/3/14 at 3:02 am to ohiovol
Buck Randall passed away 5 months ago btw
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 6:37 am to Henry Jones Jr
This ole miss fan is hilarious. I bet he has "black friends", can't fathom why some people are offended by the confederate flag, thinks slavery had nothing to little to do with secession , and say there is history class saying "why don't you'll believe the German army didn't know what was happening to the Jews, that's all hearsay".
This dude is classic. Only distracted off his delsusional message to discuss whose student body is classier with of all things a State fan.
This dude is classic. Only distracted off his delsusional message to discuss whose student body is classier with of all things a State fan.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:29 am to BruinsWoo
Wut
Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:42 am to UMRealist
A Bruins fan, of all people.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:23 am to Rebelfan1985
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Buck Randall passed away 5 months ago btw
Bubba Tollison passed away a couple of weeks ago as well.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:31 am to BruinsWoo
You suck
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:32 am to RebelFreeze48
Apparently Meredith thinks the statue should be removed completely from campus and that it is a false idol and an insult to God.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:36 am to YStar
So who's alter is Y star?
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:54 am to Feral
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Nothing worse than westerners and yankees who are wannabe southerners yet act as if they have the right to be condescending in any regard towards the true south about pre-1970s American racism.
It's so easy to point at others and scream "they're the problem." There isn't anything funny about racism, much less the institutional racism that existed 50 years ago. What happened at Ole Miss more than 50 years ago was undeniably ugly. Even though it happened a long time before I was born, there are no excuses for what happened then.
It's great that so many posters are passionate about putting an end to racism and prejudice. Beyond pointing out what happened at Ole Miss more than fifty years ago, what are y'all doing to stop future racism?
I'm sure we can all agree that sweeping generalizations are wrong. I mean, it would be hypocritical to say that generalizations about race are unacceptable, but generalizations about Ole Miss students and alumni are okay based on the actions of an extremely small number of current students, right?
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