re: Ole Miss students gather in front of the Lyceum again tonight

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When it is in the deep south with a history of racial issues... yes, because it makes for a better story to sell to the readers.

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This.

I don't know why this is so hard for some folks to comprehend.

You may not like it. Kids at UMass can do dumb shite and nobody cares. Some kids at a school here in Oregon hung Obama in effigy in 2008 and it barely registered nationally (those kids were suspended, BTW). But kids at Ole Miss need to be squeaky clean because your reputation far precedes you. No school in the nation has the reputation (fair or unfair) that Ole Miss does when it comes to race relations.

Kudos to the students tonight for recognizing the best way to combat that negative perception.

Whining and bitching that "the media hates us and it's not fricking fair cuz other schools have racist douchebags too" will never combat that perception.

Wright Thompson may be an attention whore but I think he understands the situation much better than quite a few Ole Miss fans and students do.