Posted on 06/15/2020 6:47:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The board of trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning, during its Thursday meeting, is expected to consider and approve a plan to relocate the Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi.
Several sources close to IHL board members told Mississippi Today on Monday that the 12-member board, amid statewide and national protests about racial inequities in government and Confederate iconography, will vote to approve the university’s plan to move the monument at its Thursday morning board meeting. The meeting will be held virtually, and a meeting agenda will be released on Wednesday.
Several representative bodies comprised of University of Mississippi undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administrators voted in 2019 to move the monument from the heart of campus to an on-campus cemetery. Additionally, top university fundraisers, including Athletics Director Keith Carter, signed off on the monument’s relocation.
The IHL board approval is the final step necessary for the relocation.
The 30-foot monument of a battle-ready Confederate soldier, which the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected in 1906, greets visitors at the university’s main entrance. Although less visible to visitors and students, the on-campus cemetery is the resting place for hundreds of Confederate soldiers.
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Ole Miss surrenders to the mob.
Truly tragic.
When do these cowards change their mascot?
“Additionally, top university fundraisers, including Athletics Director Keith Carter, signed off on the monument’s relocation.”
Seems to just be those who run the football program and the people that raise the money are behind this plan.
Buckle under, you ignorant asswipes, and see what it gets you. Once that terrible history of brother against brother is erased, there’s more to come - lots more.
You may forgive us but we won’t be forgiven. There is a rancor in our hearts which you little dream of. We hate you, Sir. Henry Alexander Wise 1806-1876.
Ole Miss is just reflective of a hard fact that no one
dares address.
The universities of the United States are
super-expensive, socialist indoctrination centers for
cell-phone addicted millenials.
Didn’t they long ago get rid of the mascot “Rebel”?
It will never end. The demographic is never satisfied.
They will be desecrating confederate graves next. The people in the outer burbs and rural parts of this country have millions of guns and are waiting for the flashpoint when the civil war gets hot. This match must not be postponed. We must fight before they take our weapons and our lives. Many will die before this is over.
This is what the media wants, a war.
They cheer on the mobs unceasingly.
and what about the State of Mississippi flag???
Thank you Nikki Haley.
Indians (dot not feather) don’t value American history.
More and more Americans don’t value American history.
True
The Facebook-Fascists are running the United States now.
They want white people dead. Acts of appeasement don’t help. Time to rise and shine.
The problematic and retired Colonel Reb begat the Black Bear in 2010,
which now makes way for the Landshark. Students voted in 2017 to make
a Landshark the school’s new mascot, and now the new critter’s here.
That’s as gay as Shepard Smith.
That mascot looks like a cross between a lizard and a garden snake to me.
Strategic retreat - I’m tired of seeing our historic symbols get defaced by vandals and thugs. Move them to a cemetery where they’ll get more respect. If those people every become civilized, then discuss moving them back - won’t happen in my lifetime.
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