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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Your information must be twisted OBReb. Everyone knows that Mississippi State is the people's university that has always welcomed people of every gender, race, and creed since the day it was founded and that Ole Miss is a black hole of seething bigotry.