re: Rednecks looking down on the great State of Missouri

Let’s talk about living in 1865.

Lmaooo that last pic has be rolling

Nobody even knows Missouri is in the sec

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Let’s talk about living in 1865.

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Let's talk about living in the here and now.

Protestors: "Whitey is evil because one of us painted a shite swastika in a bathroom."

Rest of the SEC: "frick you. STFU and get your arse back to class...if your sorry, racist arse even goes to school here."

Missouri: "We're so sorry. Lets us suck your dick. We'll fire the football coach and reduce our enrollment by 30% just to suck the shite out of your racist asses."

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The vast majority of us hated the protests. Shall we dig into the south’s illustrious past?

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Let's dig into Missouri's illustrious past first.

Missouri Had the Second Highest Number of Lynchings Outside the South

Horace Duncan, Fred Coker and Will Allen were lynched in this public square in Springfield, Missouri.

Missouri citizens despise black people

Race relations have a troubled history in Missouri, and new data released on Tuesday by the Equal Justice Initiative, or EJI, reiterates just how bad things were. The focus? Lynching — and the numbers don't make Missouri look good.

The Montgomery, Alabama-based nonprofit, which offers legal representation to prisoners and indigent defendants who have been denied just treatment, concentrated its research on lynchings of African Americans in states beyond the the American South. The EJI studied local newspapers, historical archives, court records, black-owned newspapers, and decedents of lynching victims and survivors to research these acts of racial violence, which were led by white mobs between 1880 and 1940 who often faced no consequences for their crimes.

After documenting more than 300 lynchings across eight states, EJI determined that Missouri experienced the second highest rate of racial lynchings outside the deep South — at least 60, though others likely remained undocumented.

For its data about Missouri, the EJI made particular note of two mass lynchings. One, the lynching of William Godley, French Godley and Peter Hampton, took place in Pierce City in 1901 and lasted nearly fifteen hours. Through a questionable eyewitness account, William Godley had been labeled a sexual aggressor and was in jail when a white mob took him and lynched him. After rumors spread that a black man had tried to shoot at the mob during the lynching, the crowd proceeded to shoot William Godley's father French and then burn another man, Peter Hampton, alive in his house.

The other, the lynching of Horace Duncan, Fred Coker and Will Allen, happened in Springfield in April 1906. Duncan and Coker had been wrongly accused of sexual assault, while Allen was accused of murder without evidence, EJI says. Before Duncan and Coker could face trial, the mob broke them out of their jail cells and hung them from a light tower in the town square. Angry citizens then burned and shot their corpses before chasing down and hanging Allen from the same pole.

The only state in the EJI's report to exceed Missouri in its number of lynchings was Oklahoma, with 76 lynchings. Other states with high lynching numbers included Illinois (56 lynchings), West Virginia (35 lynchings), Maryland (28 lynchings), Kansas (19 lynchings), Indiana (18 lynchings) and Ohio (15 lynchings).