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"Ghosts of Ole Miss"

Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:05 am
Posted by Scrapnutz39
Hernando
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Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:05 am
Nothing new or enlightening just more fodder and negativity about Ole Miss and the state of Mississippi. ESPN you want to do a story? Come and sit down and visit with those of us from the state of Mississippi that grew up in black and white neighborhoods went to fully integrated schools,played ball together,went to parties together, and hung out together. Please give it a rest,50 years ago this was a story,a story in just about every southern state,30 years ago it was not a story.Please get over trying to continue and inflame a situation and hold a state and university to the bigotry standards of a generation that knew no better,my Generation does.

First time post guys and forgive if its been repeated but dam I agreethis part of history needs to be remembered so its not repeated but the strides taken since need to be shown as well and I did not get this out of the documentary last night.

Hotty Toddy.....
This post was edited on 10/31/12 at 7:17 am
Posted by Kingpin
Tuscaloosa
Member since Jan 2009
3565 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:07 am to
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fully segregated


Did you mean integrated?
Posted by poncho villa
DALLAS
Member since Jul 2010
17698 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:10 am to
Mission: Rustle Jimmies



Mission Complete
Posted by Scrapnutz39
Hernando
Member since Feb 2012
11 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:15 am to
I meant degenerated...
Posted by SthGADawg
Member since Nov 2007
7035 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:15 am to
quote:

just more fodder and negativity about Ole Miss and the state of Mississippi.



I watched as well and must agree with you...the black guy touting that all remnants of the confederacy should be obliterated almost made me throw my TV across the room...

that ole miss team was great, but they didn't need to remind everybody about the dumb asses rioting on campus..as you said...that was ALL the southern schools in the early 60's, not just ole miss...

you must remember that ESPN is owned by Disney and ABC...liberal...as...frick...

solid post imo...
Posted by Legend13
Driving a titleist
Member since Nov 2011
4079 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:17 am to
Thanks for the post, you're a fuk'n genius. You should write for Bleacher Report, if you already don't...































Now GTFO NEWB..
Posted by Scrapnutz39
Hernando
Member since Feb 2012
11 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:17 am to
Fixed Kingpin..thanks...geesh...
Posted by diddydirtyAubie
Bozeman
Member since Dec 2010
39829 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:19 am to
My cuz is a 4*. He said Ole Miss was high on his list, until he watched that 30 for 30 last night, yo.
Posted by Scrapnutz39
Hernando
Member since Feb 2012
11 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:22 am to
Now my azz hurts...
Posted by Mullen3:16
Nerlins, LA
Member since May 2012
4708 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:23 am to
I thought it was a well executed Ole Miss hit piece. Doesn't hurt that Mullen has an "in" with Mike Tollin.
Posted by SthGADawg
Member since Nov 2007
7035 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:30 am to
quote:

My cuz is a 4*. He said Ole Miss was high on his list, until he watched that 30 for 30 last night



so...your dumbass "cuz" is worried about racial tensions from the 1960's while making his collegiate decison?

wow...
Posted by RebelExpress38
In your base, killin your dudes
Member since Apr 2012
13549 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:32 am to
Agree 100%. Talked about the bad only, and didn't gather any new and unique insights.


I was expecting it to be an awesome perspective about the football team for 60 minutes with a ton of great interviews and newly uncovered facts, but instead it was wright Thompson filming himself writing on a pad and thinking about if that guy in the picture was his relative. Is he serious? He wasn't even at the riots and didn't go to ole miss. Nobody cares about your little side stories.

Why would he leave out the fact that the klan members that "rallied" for the lsu game needed a full police escort because people were throwing stuff and them and heckling them? Why would he leave out that 100 yards past the rally, a huge group of students of all races held their own " turn your back on hate rally"? Why would he leave out that the drunk student who said something to our student body president nearly got his arse kicked and was thrown out of the bar?

It's pretty obvious what he was doing. He was just rewording the same story other people have told, but because he is a good writer, people thought it was "so powerful." if you look past the sentence structure, and the dude narrating to screenshots of himself in the grove, nothing new was discovered. Huge disappointment.
This post was edited on 10/31/12 at 7:33 am
Posted by bayou2003
Mah-zur-ree (417)
Member since Oct 2003
17646 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:32 am to
quote:

so...your dumbass "cuz" is worried about racial tensions from the 1960's while making his collegiate decison?

wow...


You fell for it, WOW. He's being sarcastic
Posted by bayou2003
Mah-zur-ree (417)
Member since Oct 2003
17646 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:35 am to
quote:

Come and sit down and visit with those of us from the state of Mississippi that grew up in black and white neighborhoods went to fully integrated schools,played ball together,went to parties together, and hung out together.


I thought it was strange how he left out the footage of Ole Miss fans, alums, students yelling at the 2-3 KKK members, telling them to leave. I can remember seeing clips of that a few years ago that weekend they played LSU. I believe it was like 2 or 3 Klan members protesting, but there were a lot of people on campus that didn't want them there. I was waiting on that clip towards the end, but he never mentioned it.
This post was edited on 10/31/12 at 7:36 am
Posted by MaroonNation
StarkVegas, Mississippi, Bitch!
Member since Nov 2010
21950 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:38 am to
Uh. Not related to Ole Miss but thirty years ago in the doctors office in Morton, MS black people still waited in the back parking lot while the indoor waiting rooms were for whites. So it isn't that far gone. But in the last twenty years it has drastically improved. You must have grown up in a large city
Posted by allin2010
Auburn
Member since Aug 2011
18151 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:38 am to
It is part of History, it is the 50 year anniversary. I enjoyed it and felt it was a balanced report and showed the progress that had been made. The 60's and 70's shaped the nation.

Posted by MaroonNation
StarkVegas, Mississippi, Bitch!
Member since Nov 2010
21950 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:39 am to
The guy that did it was from Oxford was he not?
Posted by DCRebel
An office somewhere
Member since Aug 2009
17644 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:43 am to
quote:

I thought it was strange how he left out the footage of Ole Miss fans, alums, students yelling at the 2-3 KKK members, telling them to leave. I can remember seeing clips of that a few years ago that weekend they played LSU. I believe it was like 2 or 3 Klan members protesting, but there were a lot of people on campus that didn't want them there. I was waiting on that clip towards the end, but he never mentioned it.



That would have been a nice addition.

And to the butthurt Ole Miss fans, what happened in 1962 wasn't "the same as every other school" - it was unique. Yes, everybody else was segregated and resisted integration, but for some reason WE became the focal point of this integration battle. People from all over the South came to Oxford to protest, which is why it got so violent and they had to call the National Guard in.

I mean come on, two people DIED ON OUR CAMPUS during those riots. To cheapen it by saying "oh well it happened everywhere else" is fricking bogus. We were the battleground for the entire Jim Crow loving South. That legacy is ours to bear and to grow from. We should be proud of that distinction, that we in a way get to be the standard by which the rest of the South is judged. It's a shitload of responsibility but I think we can handle it.

And to call a story written by a Mississippi native and Ole Miss season ticket holder a "hit piece" or whatever is fricking stupid.

Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
13447 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:46 am to
While I don't agree with everything Morgan Freeman says (I certainly do not share his faith in the mental disorder known as liberalism, for example ), I believe he may be on to something when he said the best way to prevent racism is to "stop talking about it."

I'm not sure how constantly resurrecting old wounds helps them heal, either.

We are all in this world together. It's really not that hard to be decent to one another. Just my .02....




Posted by lowspark12
nashville, tn
Member since Aug 2009
22368 posts
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:57 am to
quote:

Why would he leave out that the drunk student who said something to our student body president nearly got his arse kicked and was thrown out of the bar?


this was in the show... sort of.
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