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LSU's football team, and other teams at LSU, are directly named after Company B of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, the Fighting Tigers.

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For the equivalent to be true of the Crimson Tide, they would be known as the University of Alabama Plowboys or the Tuscaloosa Plowboys, which was a well known cavalry unit formed mostly of Tuscaloosa men.

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Dude...I think you are losing focus on what the whole thing is talking about. My post was about racial discrimination and how all schools have their own past to deal with and not just LSU. You can point your fingers all you want at LSU, but Alabama had a governor trying to block access to the University, and the National Guard had to be called out. Neither is something to jump up and down about and poit to proudly. But neither is doing that, either.

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Please show me where I posted that Kiffin was a hypocrite. I wasn’t referring to him at all, but rather to those on this board who live in states that were part of the Confederacy while criticizing Louisiana for the same thing.

I also don’t believe I ever referred to Kiffin that way. What I have questioned at times is the logic of some posters on this board, especially those who make sweeping generalizations about people from another state based solely on what they read on an anonymous message board.

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I agree with you and your summation that Kiffin is retarded and a greasy, slimy hypocrite.

What other kind of mincing twat would criticize Ole Miss for some fans waving Confederate flags or having Col. Reb as a mascot when the team he coaches for now is directly named in honor of men who murdered other men who wanted to set black people free?

At least you agree with me on that and now understand how a retarded, attention hungry, feminized, yoga whore behaves when he needs attention.

Just imagine an attention slurping count like Harry Rex Vonner being LSU's coach and you will understand why Kiffin says some of the things he does. He needs that attention, almost in a sexual way, to feel complete.

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WTF are you talking about. The entire thread is about LSU being named after men who were fighting to keep the ancestors of LSU's current players in neck cuffs and bound and tied up.

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And my response was that no school in the country has a moral high ground for the past. Not LSU. Not Georgia and it is very odd for Alabama fans to be pointing their fingers, while needing the National Guard to come to preserve the peace and protect black students from harm.

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Yeah, but the LSU Fighting Tigers and their fans are praising, celebrating, and honoring people who murdered their current players kinfolk and tied them to trees at night if they misbehaved and things like that.

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Really? Mind showing me a post like that? I mean, they may have named their team after a group like that in the 1890's, but Alabama had the National Guard on campus to keep those same things from happening to black students in 1963.

And while I don't give LSU a pass by any stretch, they do have a point that very few people know about the nickname controversy, while I would be willing to bet that most know about 1963 at Alabama.

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Get it?

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Racial tensions at the University of Georgia in Athens peaked during the early 1960s with the desegregation of the university and the violent 1961 desegregation riot.

In January 1961, following a federal court order to admit Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, segregationists organized a riot on January 11 involving approximately 1,000 people, including Ku Klux Klan members.

The mob gathered outside Hunter’s dormitory, throwing bricks, shouting racial slurs, and setting fires before police dispersed them with tear gas and fire hoses.

Hunter and Holmes were temporarily suspended for their protection but were reinstated by a judge, marking a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia.

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I'm sorry..but I read and reread what you posted and saw no mention of the National Guard. And no mention of the Governor of Georgia standing in the doorway blocking black students from entering.
This was your previous post, was it not?

As was the national guard also called up in Georgia for racial issues and even later than there were in Alabama.

And you also said it happened at Georgia later than at Alabama, but it looks like it was 1961 at Georgia and 1963 at Alabama. You seem to be wrong about almost everything you are saying.

So, I will say it again....no school in the country should be casting stones at another. Not Alabama at LSU, not Georgia at Alabama...none. We all have histories of racial strife. Your insistence to point fingers at LSU seems bizarre at best.

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The Desegragation Riots an the campus of the University of Georgia where blacks were almost murdered by students and Klanners was in '61, which was before Wallace's infamous stand in the doorway.

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Almost murdered? Is that like being almost pregnant? Yes, it happened earlier than what happened at Alabama, meaning Alabama was racially discriminating more recently. I'm not sure how that matters, but you seemed to want to make it a big deal in your previous post.

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The Augusta Disorder was over a period of years from 67-70, which is still in the state of Georgia and still looks horrible for black students who want to attend college in that state was after Wallace in the doorway. Many blacks are still scared of the state of Georgia, in general, because of things like this.

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So now you want to open it up to any kind of racial unrest in the entire state? be careful because now we Have Selma, Alabama to bring to the discussion and a few other things that has gone on in Alabama.
You might want to think carefully before you start bringing other parts of the states into the discussion. However...if you want, we can discuss entire states.

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Alabama is not casting stones. Georgia is not casting stones. Kiffin, a slightly mongoloid coach of LSU is doing that. That is what the thread is about.

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If you believe that, then you have not read through this thread, and seem to have forgotten some of your own posts.

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I'm glad you agree that a coach of a team that proudly taunts and terrorizes black athletes with their name that idolizes and promotes hatred and division should probably keep his stupid fricking mouth shut in regards to which states and which teams are associated with racism and makes recruitment of black athletes harder.

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You might want to step away for a bit. Do LSU athletes really look traumatized to you? You do know that if they were truly traumatized, they could just not go to LSU, right? Or to Ole Miss or to Georgia or to Alabama. Nobody is forcing them to be "traumatized."
You should probably stop living in the 1950's and 1960's. And, before pointing fingers at their schools research your favorite school and states racial history

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Great, we agree. Kiffin should keep his stupid fucing trap closed in regards to which teams/campuses are actively promoting racism and have a detrimental effect on recruitment of black athletes.

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We actually do agree on this.

But shouldn't we all stop pointing fingers? I mean, if it is wrong for one, isn't it wrong for all?

I was never defending what Kiffin sad...only pointing out the irony of other fan bases doing the same thing Kiffin did.

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It's not irony, it's reciprocation and responding in kind. LSU fans approve of Kiffin's statements about Ole Miss and feel they have some type of elevated moral platform from which to look down on others in the SEC.

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And when you do the exact same thing, you don't see that as looking down on others in the SEC?

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I was informing them that they are hypocritical douche-bags whose brains don't work well and they lack knowledge of their own team's history of prejudice and exclusion and hatred.

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But you don't think Alabama fans are hypocritical by pointing out stuff against LSU when your own school is guilty of similar?

I don't think you understand. I am not calling out Alabama, Ole Miss or LSU...I am calling out all of the schools histories. That said, what happened 130 years ago should be left in the past, imo. To dredge stuff up in an effort to say "Gotcha!" is shortsighted and unnecessary. People are prone to faux outrage when it concerns their rivals on this board. I look at this as similar to people running to the board if a kid gets in trouble. (Not you....in general) We all have kids that get into trouble, and it's dumb to run here trying to be the first to cry outrage over stuff.