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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.
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: blm; mississippi; sec
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Never enough to satisfy.
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:21:24 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Once we’re done renaming all things of the Confederacy then all things with Indian names will be next.
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:25:51 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:27:59 AM PDT
by
golux
To: C19fan
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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)
To: ealgeone
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
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:39:47 AM PDT
by
Meatspace
To: C19fan
A nickname often speaks to a past. Moronic question.
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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.)
To: C19fan
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!
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:45:33 AM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:49:41 AM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:51:42 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: ealgeone
And all things black...Aunt Jemima, Uncle Remus, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred Scott statue etc.
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:55:40 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: golux
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posted on
07/27/2020 10:58:36 AM PDT
by
dsc
To: C19fan
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.
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posted on
07/27/2020 11:04:47 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: C19fan
Just put an accent mark on the “e” and it changes the meaning. Bull fighting could be somewhat like football.
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posted on
07/27/2020 11:05:38 AM PDT
by
damper99
To: C19fan
As a Mississippi State grad, all I can say is BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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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?)
To: C19fan
"The term's actual origin is more unsettling....You left us hanging. What unconscious racism are we guilty of this morning?
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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.)
To: C19fan
Stir the pot for new problems since we don’t have any right now.
To: C19fan
Its not a racist past, its THEIR past.
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posted on
07/27/2020 11:59:51 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
To: dsc
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posted on
07/27/2020 12:24:14 PM PDT
by
golux
To: C19fan
They banned Colomel Rebel, then the state flag, now they want their name itself. Phuck CNN. How about we fight back for once?
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posted on
07/27/2020 1:30:09 PM PDT
by
Luke21
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