re: Was it wise for Ole Miss to give Hugh Freeze a raise so soon?

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We were mostly all racist in MS back then. There was a rally by the flagpole on the MSU drill field, the afternoon that Meredith was being admitted to Ole Miss. Many hundreds, perhaps over a thousand or so MSU students gathered to protest. And hear inflamatory speeches, and encouragement to go to Oxford. I was there. Many hundreds of MSU guys did that, perhaps a thousand or so. I don't know how to measure crowd sizes nor responses.


I just went back to the dorm that night, and watched the riot on TV in the lobby, since we weren't allowed TV in our rooms back then. Some of my friends went up there, and got arrested, and missed a week or so of classes.


In retrospect, that was really dumb, but that's the world of Mississippi, 50 years ago. The paradigm has shifted, indeed. For the better!


Unfortunately, the rest of the world still measures us through that prism.

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Now STFU cocksucker.

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You contradict yourself you self-righteous titty baby.

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I injected some nuance into the discussion. It's a gray area. You can't see it outside of "black or white" though, so I totally get why you think I contradicted myself.

You're a simpleton.

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Yes it was. 2 lives were lost on the OM campus.

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And it's sad and borderline offensive that you find it completely acceptable to turn this watershed moment in the Civil Rights Era into fodder for a football rivalry, and what's even worse is that you can't possibly see how foolish you're being in doing so.

You still haven't answered my questions from earlier, Hardy. Why were State students on the Ole Miss campus on that day in 1962 and why didn't State integrate until three years later?

Thanks.

ETA: And my point in asking this question isn't to "one up" anyone, but rather to point out that the problems we've had aren't exactly unique to us.