Comments on: UM Once Again In Racial Row; Freeze Not Happy With Media Portrayal

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:46:04 +0000

All…

Just a quick clarification. I realize that this country is polarized that we’ve now become Democrats and Republicans rather than Americans — which makes me want to puke — but anyone defending the use of racial epithets and slurs is a buffoon. End of story. That’s not pro-free speech, that’s pro-racism.

I like breasts, legs and thighs.

But I hate wings. The far left one and the far right one. If this county could ship one group to Canada and the other to the Mexico we’d all be a helluva lot better off.

John

By: rgdownie

rgdownie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:47:28 +0000

The students at Ole Miss just don’t understand, it only works if your FOR anti-American, Liberal or communist agendas. Its okay if you burn down the school as long as you wave a hammer & sickle, hate Christians & Jews love Palestinians etc etc. But if you proud of your past and not ashamed to be white and are a Christian than God help you. I’m glad to know some young people still have valves they think are worth standing up for.
I love football but it’s still just a game. I LOL when I heard the Democrats crying out 4 more years, we DON’T have 4 more years left. (Economily-Speaking)

By: pbrstreetgang

pbrstreetgang — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:02:52 +0000

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of history’s great military tacticians and a bad-ass.

By: Catfish

Catfish — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:38:32 +0000

Sounds to me like they were breaking up a perfectly legal political assembly. If a few idiots shout out racial slurs that doesn’t make it any more illegal. If students had come out and protested Romney winning (if he had won) I’m willing to bet they wouldn’t have broken it up unless it got very out of hand; and even if it had been a full blown riot, the university would probably be labeled by the media as racist for breaking it up. I’m sick and tired of double standards and liberal biases from the media and university administrators. Maybe if the media would stop highlighting “a handful of dimwits”, then people from elsewhere would not think ole miss was a racist place. The number one reason the idiots do it is for media attention, anyway. The media makes mountains out of mole hills to sell papers or advertisements or whatever, and the ones who suffer are the innocent majority of people who are categorized with the minority of idiots.

By: badbadhoggie

badbadhoggie — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:14:05 +0000

Only at ole miss…now thats funny

By: ChrisWynes

ChrisWynes — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:58:31 +0000

@Statesman This is the first I’m hearing of it, and I’m just going from the chancellor’s own description that this was to protest the election results. If you’ve ever been to a political rally on a college campus, you know that some of the people’s motives for protesting can be rather unsavory, and you can’t always control what everybody says at those things. I stopped by an anti-war protest on the Mizzou campus when Iraq started back in ’03, and some of the people protesting it had a bigger problem with Israel then they did with war, and there was some signage that could easily have started a heated confrontation with any visiting Israeli students. But protesting a war was clearly political, whatever the motivation of individual participants, just as protesting an election is. Protesting is a regular feature of college life for 50 years, and not something most university administrations try to break up by using police force. I get why Ole Miss would be particularly sensitive to this issue, but it takes more than sensitivity about the school’s image and history for a public university to justify the use of force to disperse a political rally, which is what the chancellor described. If they were a private university, it would be a different matter. Alternatively, there are acts of violence that would justify breaking up a protest, but the chancellor is claiming either that those didn’t happen or that police didn’t observe them.

By: Statesman

Statesman — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:25:15 +0000

@ChrisWynes
Chris I believe that the university and most reasonable folks find it offensive for a group of people to gather and shout racial slurs. Is it illegal? …No, but it is not what a university with Ol Miss history or no history at all wants to project.

By: ChrisWynes

ChrisWynes — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:11:16 +0000

Why exactly are university police breaking up a political rally? From the description the chancellor gives, it sounds like the rally at the student union was a lawful political protest against Obama, and that the subsequent rally at the residence hall only turned ugly when police again intervened. You can call it uncivil or immature, but their viewpoints are as protected as anybody elses, and they are under no obligation to confine their views to social media and out of the public square just because the chancellor disagrees with them or thinks they express a message the university wants to distance itself from.

By: I4Bama

I4Bama — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:34:50 +0000

I once went to a game in Oxford and went to eat lunch in a cafe that had a life-sized mural of Nathan Bedford Forest on the back wall. Hard to distance yourself from facts.