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[Big Sheep81]

Has anybody heard from Sheppard Smith? Somebody ought to check on him**

 

[was21]

I realize the hatred of some on this board for anything related to OM, but this kind of crap reflects on the entire state of Mississippi...so it ain't good for the state image.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Exactly

 

[rabiddawg]

Everyone I know that is over 40 and cheers for Ole Miss mainly does it because of their views of African Americans. Every school in the SEC is guilty of their pockets of intolerance but no other school except maybe Auburn embraces their intolerant past more than Ole Miss. They may say the right thing in public and the most liberal professors in the state are there but on the inside most white people love it because it represents the old south, massah and the plantation.

 

[JungRebel]

Most?

 

[ArcherSPS]

yeah rabiddawg give em credit where it's due..you mean 90% of them

 

[FormerlyHighLifeRebel]

You must hang out with a lot of racists...

you hillbilly jackass.

The majority of white people I know who went to Ole Miss would like to kick your *** for grouping them in with your backwards *** friends.

 

[HD6]

Maybe he's from Georgia.

 

[DerHntr]

I'll admit I have laughed at OM about these events but...

I haven't thought the actual things going on are funny. They are downright embarrassing for the entire state.

OM we would appreciate it if you would get your damn **** together. Whether you want to admit it or not, the inability to break free of your past is part of this problem. The culture at the university is part of the problem. I am still amazed every time I see that you named your black bear "Rebel." I understand how people tried to rationalize keeping the nick name but in the end it just shows you have too many people in your fanbase with influence who can't let go. At least your administration grew a sack on a few things....

From Dixie with Love

Banning sticks in the stadium to get rid of Rebel Flags

Removal of a confederate soldier on your side line

 

[DerHntr]

One more thing..thought it needed its own post

The title of the article is "Racial slurs, a rebel symbol, and a noose". Hell, they named their new mascot "REBEL"! They have commercials as the Rebels. There are literally rebel symbols everywhere.

 

[Shamoan]

this exactly the type of thing that will push them away from the term "rebel" forever. they can never distance themselves from the past until the remove the yoke of their nickname and team name which acts as a constant reminder.

 

[tb2]

Go 17 yourself.

I guess what you are trying to say is that most of your fellow brothers in the Klan are OM fans?

 

[rabiddawg]

I'm was actually born in Michigan but have grown up here since I was three. I grew up around a lot of people who went to private school because their parents didn't want them going to school with a particular sect of the population. As a matter of fact the only three kids in our community that went to public school was my brother, my cousin and me. I went to the same HS that gave y'all Duece and Shay Hodge before you suggest I went to a fancy HS. But guess who all the kids that went to the academy in Pelahatchie cheered for.........

My mom, who grew up in Michigan, was told by one of those parents who sent their kids to the academy that she was a unfit parent for sending us to school with black kids

So forgive me for just stating the obvious.

 

[rabiddawg]

But the past is the only place where they are relevant.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

No point worrying over a **** stain on a turd.

Everyone outside of the state already sees Mississippi as a 3rd world religious state where being a fat racist with more kids than teeth is required.

By comparison, to those inside the state, this shows ole miss and only ole miss in a bad light, and what's bad for ole miss is good for State.

 

[rabiddawg]

By comparison, to those inside the state, this shows ole miss and only ole miss in a bad light, and what's bad for ole miss is good for State.

+1

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Geez, you Bear fans are like Holocaust Deniers.

 

[lasher8]

^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^

this exactly the type of thing that will push them away from the term "rebel" forever. they can never distance themselves from the past until the remove the yoke of their nickname and team name which acts as a constant reminder.

 

[patdog]

Everyone I know that is over 40 and cheers for Ole Miss mainly does it because of their views of African Americans.

That's just not even close to being fair. I know a lot of people over 40 who cheer for Mississippi, and none of them do it because of any negative views of African Americans.

 

[msstate7]

The title of the article is "Racial slurs, a rebel symbol, and a noose". Hell, they named their new mascot "REBEL"! They have commercials as the Rebels. There are literally rebel symbols everywhere.

OM I'm a rebel commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gvxP0zYzFCY

 

[FreeDawg]

OM I'm a rebel commercial

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gvxP0zYzFCY

The attempt to rebrand the word "rebel" shows there is an understanding by their administration that "rebel" has a negative perception. It shows they are trying really hard to show progressiveness but also appease the older generations (the money basically).

 

[coach66]

Hey, I went to that academy in Pelahatchie and

I turned out ok, I think. I can relate to everything you said.

 

[kendrickjohnson]

In 10 years there will be no more "Rebel" anything there. The final fight to remove the racist vestiges of the past will be entertaining as hell to watch.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

No, it doesn't

I realize the hatred of some on this board for anything related to OM, but this kind of crap reflects on the entire state of Mississippi...so it ain't good for the state image.

Nationwide, The Mississippi State University is known as the Island of Racial Progress and Harmony in a Sea of Racism, Jim Crow, and anti-miscegenation laws. I know it's not the complete truth, but as we all know Perception is 90% of reality.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Everyone I know that is over 40 and cheers for Ole Miss mainly does it because of their views of African Americans. Every school in the SEC is guilty of their pockets of intolerance but no other school except maybe Auburn embraces their intolerant past more than Ole Miss. They may say the right thing in public and the most liberal professors in the state are there but on the inside most white people love it because it represents the old south, massah and the plantation.

In all seriousness, I would love to hear what led you to make this statement.

 

[MeridianDog]

Yesterday they made CBS.com

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fraternity-suspends-ole-miss-chapter-boots-three-members/

Still there today, just down the page a bit. Don't know how long until something worse forces them off the page.

Lots of exposure for them. Hate the top of page references to their never ending similar problems that seem to define their university as a bastion of racial disharmony.

I could have warned them about Georgia Frat Freshmen. Not that it would have helped.

Maybe they should outlaw:

1 - Georgia folks
2 - Frats
3 - Freshmen

Would help solve lots of bad publicity for an otherwise (insert your adjectives, based on personal opinion here) place.

 

[o_1984Dawg]

Has the Shay Hodge article been brought up? Attributing the Obama riots to one out-of-state student has to be up there in the pantheon of rebel revisions. Are y'all sure that wasn't MSU students too?

http://hottytoddy.com/2014/02/19/fo...es-racists-are-the-real-minority-at-ole-miss/

"...just like the person involved in the supposed ‘riot’ that took place after Obama became president. That was blown out of proportion and was, if I remember correctly, just one kid from Georgia.”

 

[rabiddawg]

Google Auburn frat blackface prank

 

[rabiddawg]

Let's remember this when the OM crowd claims they are a bigger national name than us. It's not because of The Groooooooove and blond bitches.

 

[Machiavelli]

I'm was actually born in Michigan but have grown up here since I was three. I grew up around a lot of people who went to private school because their parents didn't want them going to school with a particular sect of the population. As a matter of fact the only three kids in our community that went to public school was my brother, my cousin and me. I went to the same HS that gave y'all Duece and Shay Hodge before you suggest I went to a fancy HS. But guess who all the kids that went to the academy in Pelahatchie cheered for.........

My mom, who grew up in Michigan, was told by one of those parents who sent their kids to the academy that she was a unfit parent for sending us to school with black kids

So forgive me for just stating the obvious.

Rabbi, I applauded you for this post. Like it or not, the ole miss BS doesn't exist if it wasn't a microcosm of the beliefs of many Mississippians. Those who understand the history of our State knows why the private school system came to be. Granted there are many academies that provide a superior education in comparison to there public counter-parts. But there are a great number that provide a inferior education. They only exist to maintain separation, especially through the "hormonal stages" of teenagers. Plus there is tremendous peer pressure, as your mother faced, to put white kids in private schools. Not all pressure is as direct as what your mother encountered, but most parents feel that pressure...it's a status symbol. To others it rooted in racist beliefs. I know families who don't have a deep sense of "quality education" and can't really afford the cost of private schools, but they " rake, scrape, beg, borrow and steal to send their kids.

Yes the ole miss shenanigans makes our State look bad. But we have to acknowledge that this culture reflects the beliefs of many Mississippians, many in very influential positions. I too grew up in an academy community. By the time that I was 18 and a freshman at MSU, I had no friends of a different race and made none during my five years at MSU. Only after entering graduate school in another state, did that occur.

So until we change the way that we train our children, many will go to college with the old south beliefs and carry on the Dixie mantra. They will leave college and become the new powerful, and they will continue to demand that there "rich heritage and traditions" remain intact. What has played out is a system of deeply imbedded beliefs. Until beliefs are changed, the ole miss culture will always have a place of relevancy. Only changed-minded people will change Mississippi and ole miss.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I don't have to. I was here when it happened....in 2001. Got anything in the last 13 years to add to it?

 

[rabiddawg]

Well there was your football player who got in a fight in a McDonalds 2 years ago for calling another patron the "n-word". Dismukes I believe. Also several others.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

You're grasping. If you want to believe that Auburn has a consistent history of intolerance and racism, nothing I say is going to change your mind.

 

[rabiddawg]

And nothing you are trying to say is going to change mine

 

[rabiddawg]

How funny would it be if legislation was passed that all vestiges of the old south had to be removed from OM.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Fair enough. Enjoy being wrong.

 

[Indndawg]

Somebody's gotta sandy va-J-Hey

buts its still funny seem Mississippi's Rebels coming unhinged.

 

[MeridianDog]

I'll happily let them have that kind of exposure.

However the plantation master mentality common at TSUN makes the entire state look bad.

Sad. It's just really sad. I wish they could control themselves at least a little - at least every once and a while.

Hard to take the racist out of a Rebel I guess.

 

[johnson86-1]

there are a great number that provide a inferior education.

This is ********. Very few private schools provide a worse education than the public school its students would be in. A lot of private schools in ms aren't anything special, but theyre almost always better than the alternative for a majority of their students and are often the best school in the are period.