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The Battle over Ole Miss: Why a flagship university has stood behind a nickname with a racist past
CNN ^ | July 27, 2020 | Eliott C. McLaughlin

Posted on 07/27/2020 10:21:24 AM PDT by C19fan

Cities, colleges and even the US Capitol are seeing growing battles over statues or building names after the killing of George Floyd.

The University of Mississippi is facing a fight over its very identity.

Like other universities, the state's flagship campus in Oxford is not generally addressed by its full name. For more than a century, it's been called Ole Miss. It sounds like folksy shorthand for Old Mississippi. The term's actual origin is more unsettling.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: blm; mississippi; sec
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Never enough to satisfy.
1 posted on 07/27/2020 10:21:24 AM PDT by C19fan
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Once we’re done renaming all things of the Confederacy then all things with Indian names will be next.


2 posted on 07/27/2020 10:25:51 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Southern Shame

https://www.wnd.com/2010/09/209597/

Southern ghosts.


3 posted on 07/27/2020 10:27:59 AM PDT by golux
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Everything Is Racist
4 posted on 07/27/2020 10:31:40 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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then all things with Indian names will be next.

No, eventually, all things with names must be replaced.....We can only use numbers.......And none of those hard numbers like fractions or cube roots or logarithms......

Ok with you number 7673859253?

642847139
5 posted on 07/27/2020 10:36:29 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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Sports media will soon cease using the term “0le’ Miss” and a blue chip football recruit will say he will not play for a school with the name Ole Miss and that will be the end of the name “Ole Miss.”


6 posted on 07/27/2020 10:39:47 AM PDT by Meatspace
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A nickname often speaks to a past. Moronic question.


7 posted on 07/27/2020 10:43:49 AM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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Are You Ready?

Hell Yeah! Damn Right!

Hotty Toddy, Gosh Almighty,

Who The Hell Are We? Hey!

Flim Flam, Bim Bam

Ole Miss By Damn!


8 posted on 07/27/2020 10:45:33 AM PDT by buckalfa (Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hID5Hu-SHxg


9 posted on 07/27/2020 10:49:41 AM PDT by buckalfa (Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)
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The more you accommodate such demands the worse the demands will become.

When those on the Left want a statue pulled down put up another. When they want a name changed take back the name of something already changed.


10 posted on 07/27/2020 10:51:42 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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And all things black...Aunt Jemima, Uncle Remus, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred Scott statue etc.


11 posted on 07/27/2020 10:55:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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https://www.wnd.com/2010/09/209597/

That’s a great article. Did it get its own thread?


12 posted on 07/27/2020 10:58:36 AM PDT by dsc
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Satisfaction for those who are offensive by being is not available. In the words of the prince of Denmark, BLM has chosen to be........offensive and racist

BLM offends all that is America by being. BLM is existentially racist to the core and as such is offensive to all good Americans be they white , yellow, black, red or beige.


13 posted on 07/27/2020 11:04:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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Just put an accent mark on the “e” and it changes the meaning. Bull fighting could be somewhat like football.


14 posted on 07/27/2020 11:05:38 AM PDT by damper99
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As a Mississippi State grad, all I can say is BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!


15 posted on 07/27/2020 11:34:26 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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"The term's actual origin is more unsettling....

You left us hanging. What unconscious racism are we guilty of this morning?

16 posted on 07/27/2020 11:38:19 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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Stir the pot for new problems since we don’t have any right now.


17 posted on 07/27/2020 11:46:40 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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It’s not a “racist past”, it’s THEIR past.


18 posted on 07/27/2020 11:59:51 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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Not as far as I know.


19 posted on 07/27/2020 12:24:14 PM PDT by golux
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They banned Colomel Rebel, then the state flag, now they want their name itself. Phuck CNN. How about we fight back for once?


20 posted on 07/27/2020 1:30:09 PM PDT by Luke21
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