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Ole Miss Greek Life Retreat Canceled After Banana Peel Found in Tree
Breitbart ^ | 31 Aug 2017 | TOM CICCOTTA

Posted on 09/01/2017 8:01:25 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

A Greek life retreat scheduled to take place at the University of Mississippi was cut short last weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree on campus.

Student Ryan Swanson admitted to tossing his banana peel into a nearby tree after he was unable to locate a garbage can. Shortly after he disposed of the peel, it was spotted by Alpha Kappa Alpha President Makala McNeil, a leader of one of the school’s historically black sororities.

Despite Swanson’s explanation, a report from the student newspaper claims that students left the retreat in tears after finding out that McNeil has discovered the peel. McNeil claims the students “didn’t feel welcome” or “safe” on campus.

“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: snowflakes; stupidpeople
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To: Rennes Templar

I actually slipped on a banana peel once. I thought it was just something shown in cartoons, but one day I was walking along, and ended up on my back, after stepping on a slimy banana peel.


21 posted on 09/01/2017 8:13:23 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Red Badger

There was a crisis on another college campus a couple years ago when cottton balls were found somewhere.

Then there’s the infamous poop swastika incident.

It’s tough to keep up with the insanity.

I posted this story here yesterday. Glad to see it getting the national attention and ridicule it deserves.


22 posted on 09/01/2017 8:13:45 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Mr. Mojo

Am I missing some special significance of a banana in a tree here?

What the heck folks?

Is this supposed to infer some connection to apes, thus the perception of an insult to Blacks?

People are really looking for something to justify “the vapors” these days. Sounds like a senile old woman’s mentality to me.


23 posted on 09/01/2017 8:13:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

This is so absurd as to be comical.


24 posted on 09/01/2017 8:14:25 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TigerClaws

I bet it was all a setup..........


25 posted on 09/01/2017 8:14:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Rennes Templar

ROFL


26 posted on 09/01/2017 8:15:04 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
It was a horrible act of racist symbolism, harkening back to the days when blacks were hung from trees with banana peels. /sarc.

But, seriously, racism is often in the eye of the beholder, and was it PROGRESSIVES who made some sort of mental connection between a banana peel and black people?

When you walk past the banana display at the supermarket, are black people the first thing you think about? Probably not. You're probably thinking about buying a few bananas for the kids' lunch or for a banana cream pie.
27 posted on 09/01/2017 8:18:34 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Red Badger
Thanks for the explanation. I would not have guessed.

To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset...

It's gone way past the proverbial egg crates. Now normal society has to watch out for all the banana peels.

28 posted on 09/01/2017 8:19:44 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Muzzies are laughing at us. To conquer us all they have to do is put one banana peel on a tree at every university, scratch “Trump” in chalk on the sidewalk, and put watermelon skins outside the black students’ guild.

Writing the word “Black” on walls throughout the city will shut the city down.

The country is self-destructing. No help is needed from the muzzies.


29 posted on 09/01/2017 8:20:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: lacrew

Just goes to show this banana issue is not just a symbolic gesture, but a physical threat of violence...


30 posted on 09/01/2017 8:20:08 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: Ezekiel

I think it was all a hoax, and a setup by the Left.

Like the swastikas and nooses, all done by black students.................


31 posted on 09/01/2017 8:21:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Vermont Lt

Here are my theories (without reading the article because I am sure my made up theories are better than anything in the article);

1) A banana is a “strange fruit” to be hanging in one of those trees. (See the Billie Holiday song for reference)

or

2) It was a banana. Monkeys eat bananas. You are what you eat. So thus monkeys are bananas. Monkeys are also used as a reference for blacks. So this a banana hanging from a tree is a coded message meaning blacks should be hanging from trees.


32 posted on 09/01/2017 8:21:19 AM PDT by sipow
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To: Mr. Mojo
Here is the way this really happened, the truth as told by the "perp". He was walking and eating a banana outside. He couldn't find a garbage can nearby so he chucked the peel and it landed in a tree. True story.

What thin skinned lunatic would construe this as anything but a discarded banana peel? I routinely throw apple cores and banana peels into the woods. It's called composting.


33 posted on 09/01/2017 8:22:01 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Left is experiencing multiple fits of hysteria.


34 posted on 09/01/2017 8:22:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Vermont Lt
“I am not going to spend a lot of time being confused...but I am now curious.”

I can only surmise that to “Blacks” it represents some notion of the “idea” that their descendants were of Simian ancestry, or at least that they think Whites regard them as monkeys.

35 posted on 09/01/2017 8:23:02 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Red Badger
I bet it was all a setup..........

You bet!

The tree was a plant!

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal...

36 posted on 09/01/2017 8:24:18 AM PDT by null and void (I don't expect to live in a safe world. I expect to live in a free country. Respect the Constitution)
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To: Mr. Mojo
News follow up... The perp has been arrested and charged with a hate crime...


37 posted on 09/01/2017 8:24:28 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: null and void

So was the banana!........................


38 posted on 09/01/2017 8:24:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Mr. Mojo

FTA: spotted by Alpha Kappa Alpha President Makala McNeil, a leader of one of the school’s historically black sororities

A) Not Alpha if they got upset. Get a life!
B) Historically black sororities? Is this not racist to separate people by race?


39 posted on 09/01/2017 8:25:01 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Mr. Mojo

I bet local farmers markets are selling watermelons..Now that is totally racist


40 posted on 09/01/2017 8:27:34 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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