Ole Miss Obama riots get 3 CL articles

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FlabLoser

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That shell of a paper doesn't write 3 articles about anything. They pulled out all the stops.

There has been racial strife at Ole Miss in each decade since the school was chartered.

Ole Miss Obama riots

KKK on campus

Senator Brad Lott yelling racial slurs at a recruit that he couldn't bribe...

The South will rise again..,

Oh but it's just about school spirit and tradition - I'm not so sure
 

BigMotherTucker

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From Fark.com

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thatsbaseball

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The sad part is outside of the south many people really don`t know Ole Miss and Mississippi State are even different schools much less different ideolodgically.
 
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Why would any white person want to go to Ole Miss where you will be immediately stereotyped as racist. If you graduate and later apply for out of state jobs the employers will think you to be a possible problem. Too many barriers to overcome.
 
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If you graduate and later apply for out of state jobs the employers will think you to be a possible problem. Too many barriers to overcome.

You obviously don't hold a job out of state. That, or you're too foolish or blinded by your OM hatred to realize that rational people don't consider the actions of a few to be representative of a whole.

Antime I mention where I went to school when I meet other people their faces light up and a smile crosses their face. The stories range from "Man, sometimes I start thinking back and wish I would have went to school there. It was one of my final choices." to "I've visited Oxford & Ole Miss a handful of times and that's such a great place. It's awesome you got to spend several years there." And there's always the "Your women are amazing" line.
 

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Maybe they want to be part of the majority...according to AP

In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey.
When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.
"As much as we'd hope the impact of race would decline over time ... it appears the impact of anti-black sentiment on voting is about the same as it was four years ago," said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who worked with AP to develop the survey.
 

Railin Jemmye

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That doesn't matter. We're trying to win the in-state battle......

We're already winning the student enrollment. We also need to win the recruiting, which is primarily black athletes. Some will still want to go to Ole Miss to be different. But most will choose MSU or an out of state school over a perceived racist school.
 

Railin Jemmye

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Ole Miss is a fine school, just like anywhere else......

but it's not necessarily known for athletic prowess anymore. Rather than that, it's more about fru-fru artsy Southern Living type stuff, which isn't bad at all, but won't help you win football games.
 

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Yes. Nothing bad ever happens at Ole Miss. It's a utopia were dreams and wishes all come true. Now go back to white's only country club, play a few rounds of golf and talk how you identify with the common man.
 

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I have bitten my tongue on this......but guys...... The news stories and videos speak for themselves and people (every where) will form their own opinions without some State fan throwing in his/her two cents. It does nothing to help or make MSU look better.

I lived out of state for a number of years. They don't know the difference. Even in Arkansas, often, we are referred to as the "Mississippi schools".

Another thing, as for their symbols, history......again let people form their own opinions. Just talk up State and let it end there. Because, when I was younger ignorant man, I asked a black female co-worker why she went to OM. Her response was it was closer to home and the campus was pretty. I asked a former co-worker and former football player of theirs, why he went there. He said, they offer criminal justice and his girl friend went there. Also, my neighbors are black and their son is a decent football player. The son is an Ole Miss fan. Why? Because white kids, who are OleMiss fans, have friended the boy. My point is, people, of all races, are smarter than to believe a nickname(s) and football uniform color make up what everyone associated with an entire institution is about and make life decisions based on such. When we go around calling them racist, we look as dumb as people that run around calling State a Cow College.

Make no mistake, I am no OleMiss apologist. I wish they would lose every athletic event they play in from here to eternity. However, I don't go around calling them racist. That does not represent me or State well.
 
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Railin Jemmye

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I agree. It's pretty silly.....

unfortunately both fanbases have the homers who will point at anything that shows weakness about the other. That goes for any school. We really need to get our priorities right.
 

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Is this post supposed to be a joke? Because I definitely laughed when I read it. Just like our school, nobody outside of MS gives a flyin 17 about your school. Grow up and get over yourself. It's a 17n cheap *** public institution. Deal with it.
 

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You obviously don't hold a job out of state. That, or you're too foolish or blinded by your OM hatred to realize that rational people don't consider the actions of a few to be representative of a whole.

Antime I mention where I went to school when I meet other people their faces light up and a smile crosses their face. The stories range from "Man, sometimes I start thinking back and wish I would have went to school there. It was one of my final choices." to "I've visited Oxford & Ole Miss a handful of times and that's such a great place. It's awesome you got to spend several years there." And there's always the "Your women are amazing" line.

I've been to Ole Miss several times and people there are stuck up, period. Wasn't even there for an MSU-OM event and they were rude. I guess they just didn't like the young swimmers taking up their pool time. It's a shame they were so rude to the kids. Of the kids in that group, none even thought about attending OM. So, not everyone lives in your fairy tale land as you write. I know a family that were staunch OM fans. They were the chain gang on Friday nights at the local football games. As anyone associated with football would know, the chain gang worked on the visitors side. There were several instances where they yelled racist remarks at the opposing teams black players when they were away from the opposing teams box area on the field. Got complaints from the opposing team many games. Those people define OM fans to me.
 
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Is this post supposed to be a joke? Because I definitely laughed when I read it. Just like our school, nobody outside of MS gives a flyin 17 about your school. Grow up and get over yourself. It's a 17n cheap *** public institution. Deal with it.

Real life experiences, JackShephard, my boy.

Again, maybe you guys are blinded by your hatred from living in state and dealing with the in-state rivalry. I don't deal with that but I imagine it's pretty heated, especially with the arrival of Mullen with the anti-OM and TSUN sentiment. You get an ugly rivalry and I'm sure you see a lot of negatives from both sides. On the flip side, both fan bases are generally amicable toward everyone else that's appreciated. We see the worst of each other and form opinions on that.

People outside the state think OM is a fantastic place with charm and appeal. This isn't fantasy. All I do is shake my head when I open my Wall Street Journal to find yet another positive write up or review about Oxford and Ole Miss.

Of course it's a cheap public institution, but so are placed like UNC-Chapel Hill, UT-Austin and Oregon-Eugene. Having charm and appeal aren't mutually exclusive from being a cheap public institution. To deny that is irrational. And those places also have great pride in their schools and locales which likely comes across as arrogance to their in-state athletic rival.

I once read about a male State fan who recorded underage women relieving themselves in the women's restroom. By a lot of the logic here, this means the entire school is a full of pedophiles and sick indviduals.
 
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You can't seriously think that an employer at nearly all companies out of state would automatically think that they may have a problem with someone from OM being racist more than anyone else from Mississippi without a degree from there. Tell me you aren't that naive. Most people I run into, unless they are very big college sports fans, couldn't tell us apart for money.

I get screwing with the OM crowd about their incident this past week but some of you, along with some of them, live in a fantasy land. Oxford isn't as well known as many of them think and the differences between our schools is not well known as many of our fans think.
 
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Antime I mention where I went to school when I meet other people their faces light up and a smile crosses their face. The stories range from "Man, sometimes I start thinking back and wish I would have went to school there. It was one of my final choices." to "I've visited Oxford & Ole Miss a handful of times and that's such a great place. It's awesome you got to spend several years there." And there's always the "Your women are amazing" line.

Riiiiiiiiight. I’m sure that happens ALL the time. Their “faces light up” and “a smile crosses their face”. Is this some 17in’ after school special or some ****?
 

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All I do is shake my head when I open my Wall Street Journal to find yet another positive write up or review about Oxford and Ole Miss.

Yes, I’m sure you must’ve lost track of how many times this has happened by now. I mean, what CAN you do but shake your head at how many people are just in love with the bastion of higher ed that is Ole Miss?
 

Railin Jemmye

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That's cute and all.......

Real life experiences.........Again, maybe you guys are blinded by your hatred from living in state and dealing with the in-state rivalry. I don't deal with that but I imagine it's pretty heated, especially with the arrival of Mullen with the anti-OM and TSUN sentiment.

....but if we're talking real life experiences, Ole Miss fans in general truly HATE everything about MSU. MSU embodies what you think you're better than. MSU fans do rib Ole Miss fans more vocally. But you do quietly hate MSU the worst of any school you play. It pains you to openly admit this, so you openly admit to hating LSU instead, a school you are obviously submitting to in an effort to be seen as relevant by association, which is a pathetic move in and of itself. 'Relevant by association' is a good way to describe Ole Miss actually.

MSU fans would never resort to the sort of things Ole Miss fans would, in general. It's more of a joke for Mississippi State, but it's serious life for Ole Miss. I mean, if you don't have that superiority, what do you have? Ha.
 
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I lived in Colorado for a long time. Whenever people saw my diploma they would comment on MSU positively, never gotten a negative remark anywhere unless it was a playful one from a rival SEC school graduate. Of course I'm smart enough to realize that people are just being nice and/or making conversation and that they know nothing of MS or their institutions. Maybe one day you will grow smart enough to understand this. I doubt it, but there's always hope. In the meantime, keep intimating that every single out of state person that you've ever met in your entire miserable life had that ****** little cheap public school "on their short list". It makes you look really smart! No really, it does. Now straighten your bowtie and go bring your MSU grad boss another cup of coffee. And try not to 17 it up this time, you racist little metrosexual dumb17.
 

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The point is both our and Ole Miss degrees` value can be lessened by mistakes like these guys made in Oxford. Whether you or anyone else wants to admit it the perceived differences in Ole Miss and State outside the state of Mississippi are miniscule. The value of my diploma to me is way more important than gaining a football recruiting advantage over a fellow SEC bottom dweller.
 
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JackShephard

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I have to admit - good troll

However, I'm done. There's no way I will believe that you are really this stupid. Again, nice job on the troll.
 
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I wonder if Obama will keep his "Ole Miss" luggage...

...ironic Obama debated McCain in Oxford during the 2008 campaign, & it went smoothly. & nobody acted like an ******* when Obama beat McCain. Shortly after the debate, I even remember somebody posted a picture of Obama carrying luggage with "Ole Miss" pressed into the luggage leather (the luggage being an apparent gift from Ole Miss; I'm sure McCain received the same thing). After this incident, while going about his international business during his second term, would be funny to see Obama using his Ole Miss luggage.
 

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Do people not know that OM is the EASIEST school to get into in the entire SEC?

Riiiiiiiiight. I’m sure that happens ALL the time. Their “faces light up” and “a smile crosses their face”. Is this some 17in’ after school special or some ****?

OM ACT and SAT entrance scores are the lowest in the SEC. So my feeling is that when "their face lights up" and the "Smile crosses their face" equates to the reaction people give when you see the special needs kids playing a game of baseball in Strawberry Park. Heck, when I find out someone that I am talking to graduated from OM, I smile a little as well. (I also slow down and simplify what I am saying just a bit to make sure they understand)
 

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So my feeling is that when "their face lights up" and the "Smile crosses their face" equates to the reaction people give when you see the special needs kids playing a game of baseball in Strawberry Park.

That’s funny right there.
 
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