re: MSU students elect women's basketball star Homecoming Queen

Actually State elected Frank Dowsing “Mr. MSU” back in 1972 so this is not something unprecedented at all.
He along with Robert Bell were the first two black football players at State when they were signed in 1969.

Race relations in MS are actually much much better than they are any where else in the nation. Yes you have an occasional incident but that is the rarest of the rare and thus it makes the news. 99.99% of the rest of people in MS get along very well with each other, whether it is work, school, church, sports, civic activities. Black , white, Hispanic does not really matter.
Of course that does not fit the narrative of people who make a living off trying to keep racial discrimination, Division, issues in the forefront. So they have to create mountains out of molehills to keep themselves relevant at least to themselves.

So as a State grad, this isn’t a big deal at all. I am very happy for her as the Homecoming Queen but the fact that she is black is nothing extraordinary. She is because she earned it the right way.