I want to kick some people in the nuts so hard that they can feel them in their throat when they do this. I wasn't a fan of the black bear when it was first announced but good lord. It's a mascot for children. I saw grown damn men cussing the mascot in front of children trying to take pictures with it. And when I say grown men, they weren't frat stars. They were mid-30's men drunk off their asses trying to look cool and the sad thing was there were people that took up to cheering them after they did it.

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the strides we've made nationally over the past decade.

We haven't done much in this area over the last decade. Hell a few years ago we were international news because someone claimed there was a racist riot going on on campus after Obama was elected. We're still viewed as racist and honestly, it doesn't matter what we do now or in the future because people will always look at Ole Miss as the school that rioted and killed two people in 1962 because a black man was enrolling. It doesn't matter how many streets we rename, or how many statues we build or how many awareness weeks we have. It will always be there and it will always be what the majority of the nation will think of when the name Ole Miss is mentioned.

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Posted by TMRebel

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Posted on 3/23/15 at 5:54 pm to Henry Jones Jr

I hate what you're saying, but I can't help but think it's true. Especially with the "black man hanging in a tree" nonsense that happened last week in Jackson. Tis the cross for Mississippi as a state to bear, sadly.

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