re: So "Ole Miss" is what slaves used to be forced to call the plantation mistress

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Attempt to revise history much?

Read the comments below your article. They even point out that the 1897 UM Annual was named "Ole Miss." And, the person that came up with the name explains 'where' she got the name.

Ergo, the train took the name from the Annual ... that took the name from the language of the ante-bellum “Darkey”, who knew the wife of his owner by no other title than “Ole Miss.”

Nice try though. Go read this that was published in
Higher Ed

Sub title ... The University of Mississippi wants to stop going by its nickname and improve campus race relations. Students are not happy.

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And what about the actual name of the state, which people continually fail to address?

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What does the word Mississippi mean? The name Mississippi comes from the French "Messipi" - the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, "Misi-ziibi," meaning "Great River."

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And there you have it. The name of the state needs to be changed. It's a French interpretation of a Native American designation for a body of water.

The French, who subjugated and destroyed every Native American settlement they came across.

The French who even to this day, in their own nation, keep Muslim citizens living in filth, dirt, and run down slums the likes of which the United States has never seen.

They refuse to give them good jobs, won't allow them to wear their traditional garb in schools, and treat them as so much human trash to be discarded.

And yet, due to stupid Americans inherent racism and bigotry, we blithely sit back and allow a name like Mississippi to be freely used.

A name that should be well in our history, if we consider ourselves to be magnanimous human beings, is continually used as if nothing is wrong with it.