The Daily Mississippian staff to print retraction, apology for inflammatory ad

The Daily Mississippian ^ | 04/15/05 | Joy Douglas

[bourbon]

Link to the inflammatory ad.

Link to Clarion-Ledger article about the same incident

Ole Miss student Ronald Odom, who took the ad from New Century via phone, said he saw it before the newspaper was printed, but he didn't read it because he didn't know it was his ad. The ad says American Renaissance.

"It was purely an accident. Our screening should have been tighter," the 21-year old senior journalism major said. "Being an African American, I appreciate the progress the university has made. It has done a great job in improving race relations and morale around campus."

Note: I do not share the views of the American Renaissance Foundation. I just think it is funny that a liberal student newspaper ran this racist ad b/c the paper's slacker staff was too lazy to read their ad copy before sending it to press.

[bourbon]

(((MS PING)))

[HighFlier]

What views are those?

[ikka]

If Jesse Jackson or some other race-baiting black "leader" were to take out a similar ad, pointing out how illegal immigration is destroying black people's political power, would it be considered racist?

[cricket]

"I just think it is funny that a liberal student newspaper ran this racist ad b/c the paper's slacker staff was too lazy to read their ad copy before sending it to press."

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Hard to look at just the picture without looking for some 'sense' to it; so cannot imagine this was totally ignored.. .

. . .and since diversity IS a Libs favored assumption; would bet that at the least, the first few lines were read; and no 'red flag' went up. . .

[davisfh]

"If Jesse Jackson or some other race-baiting black "leader" were to take out a similar ad, pointing out how illegal immigration is destroying black people's political power, would it be considered racist?"

Dittos!!

[hershey]

The authors of this ad expressed themselves very badly...whatever their aims...and they do seem racist. The fact that whites will be a minority in the US one day is simple fact, however, no matter what your point of view is. If we don't manage to blow ourselves to kingdom come, generations from now we'll probably all be brownish/yellow.

[cricket]

"If Jesse Jackson or some other race-baiting black "leader" were to take out a similar ad, pointing out how illegal immigration is destroying black people's political power, would it be considered racist?"

Nope. . .not at all.

..this article is written with Lib buz words; someone probably did read at least a couple of 'first lines' and did not recognize a problem. . .

And of course, the only people to have a problem with anything Jesse does; are simply 'nasty racists'.

[cricket]

not doing too well this morning. ..make that 'buzz' words. . . ;^#

[Drew68]

What's racist about this ad?

Daring to suggest that massive non-white immigration might not be an entirely positive thing.

What I wonder about is how many people believe in their heart every word of this ad but would never, ever admit to it.

There are some pretty big elephants in the room that nobody will discuss.

[Khurkris]

Note: I do not share the views of the American Renaissance Foundation. ,b.I just think it is funny that a liberal student newspaper ran this racist ad b/c the paper's slacker staff was too lazy to read their ad copy before sending it to press.

This is racist?

Beam me up Scotty. No intelligent life here.

[cyborg]

Looks like someone was slacking to me. What a ridiculous ad.

[BobL]

"What's racist about this ad?"

My question also. This sounds like censorship. When I grew up, using inflammatory words, like the N-word, was considered racist (obviously, inciting violence against minorities is racist also - but that goes without saying). I'm still trying to find the inflammatory or inciteful words in this ad.

I think instead, we are being manipulated into thinking that a debate over immigration is not permitted, since it is, somehow, racist. IT IS NOT. There is nothing wrong with debating immigration (which I happen to support pretty strongly, by the way).

This is exactly what happened in Holland - any discussion of immigration was prohibited, in fact it was often a crime to argue against immigration. Now Theo Van Gogh is dead, assassinated by a "protected" Muslim - and the people of Holland have woken up to see 1,000,000 monsters in their midst.

Things aren't as bad in this country - yet. But if the Dems are allowed to stick to their policy of holding down Hispanics as permanent minority and if we're not careful to keep Muslims out - things will get bad here, also.

[Bob]

The authors of this ad expressed themselves very badly...whatever their aims...and they do seem racist. The fact that whites will be a minority in the US one day is simple fact, however, no matter what your point of view is.

If the fact that whites in the US will be a minority one day is a simple fact (which I believe it is), how is pointing out that fact 'racist'?

While the ad's authors could certainly have gotten their message across more clearly, I fail to see anything so explicitly racist or inflammatory in the ad itself. The group (I'm totally unfamiliar with them) may espouse racist views which I would totally disagree with but I just don't see them expressed in this particular ad.

[Popman]

Whats really stupid is the fact that by the time the little girl in the picture does turn 40, there will be very few pure races left in this country.

The latter generations mixed by ethnic heritages: Italians with Irish, Greek with Polish, all sorts of people today can not say with certain that they are pure anything.

The future generations do to different hertiages currently immigrating legally and illegally, will be all sorts of mixed colors and races. Hispanic with white, black with white, asian with hispanic, etc, etc, etc.

My thoughts don't mean I am for forced diversity, but peoples will eventually mix cultures. I'm all for it as long it's an American culture, which is the real problem today with celebrating diversity which means changing Americans culture by force.

[WKB]

If Jesse Jackson or some other race-baiting black "leader" were to take out a similar ad, pointing out how illegal immigration is destroying black people's political power, would it be considered racist?




Jackson Ms. City Councilman Kenny Stokes said
he was opposed to annexing the city of Bryam because
there was too many "white folks" down there and it
would dilute the black vote and they would lose their power. No problem there!!

[L98Fiero]

Every race is expected to speak highly of, promote, and be proud of their race and culture.....except whites. When whites do it, it is considered racism. Notice, there are no white "activists", only white racists.

That is just the ugly truth. I cannot be concerned about the future of my race in this country. That is considered racist. Minorities are expected and encouraged to be concerned about their future in this country. That is considered progress.