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Nov 20, 2009 | 03:35 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
baquan2000: Goldenae - you pointed out a key element in your post, "the point is that he would even suggest such a thing. And the sad part is that from the polls, the people responding actually think it is a good idea" See that's what he wants, he wants people to lose focus on other things, such as the Department of ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 02:55 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: WMartin - At the church I attend, St. Andrew's Cathedral, there is no teaching or preaching about hate (unless you include the teaching and preaching AGAINST hate). I'm fairly certain that there are no words that I can type that would convince you otherwise. There's really not much reason for argument and I will close ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 02:10 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: A fail-safe principle I've always sworn by: If the Kluckers agree with me about something, I need to rethink it.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 01:39 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Goldenae: I would truly be ashamed of myself if I looked at life and others the way the some people do. Some folks can not put themselves in another person's shoes to save their lives. It is very odd that in a country that strives to peg everyone as either good or bad the lines have always been so blurred to some when it comes to the Civil ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 01:27 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Goldenae: Why is it so hard to understand that regardless of what we would like to think, there are different standards. That is quite obvious in Barbour's suggestion of merging basically all of the Black Universities and at the same time, folks that do not see anything wrong with praising the rise of Dixie. The point is ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 12:42 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Huckleberry: “a school that the Klu Klux Klan holds at bay” - Queen, for the reasons I wrote yesterday, I don’t think that statement accurately depicts the “chant” situation or the Ole Miss of today. Regarding the kluckers showing up on campus, of course it’s embarrassing and will reflect poorly on the school and our state. The fact that ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 12:25 PM
Ivory Harris
Izzy: Great piece, Ward.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 12:13 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: WMartin, believing dogma is a far cry from Loving God, Self, Others. I understand your comment with my heart. And, the irony is that sometimes some in those religions that deem themselves to be Christian seem to sometimes overlook the fact that Christ lived in and among and supped with those people deemed by society to be "sinners" ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 12:00 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
baquan2000: I thought I made this point earlier, but I guess I didn't. I honestly don't think they will merge the schools. The easiest thing to do is cutback staff, realignments, pay raises, budgets and rasie tuition costs. Its a big giant smoking gun to something else and everyone is focusing on this. The thing that ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:57 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
WMartin: They do teach faith I will grant you. It's the only way to get people to believe their fairy tales. Love, tolerance, justice and peace? Well we all know religions have no problem going around those as long as the object of your hate, intolerance, injustice and war are "sinners" according to whichever "Holy" book you read.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:54 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: Can't go there with ya', WMartin. I do agree that SOME of the religious institutions and leaders are more interested in putting God on a leash and trying to control god and people than they are in spreading Love and Reconciliation and Peace and Inclusion and Acceptanceand Freedom. And, further, as we know firsthand, it is under the ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:54 AM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Kamikaze: All, The Proposed mergers will be the focus of my show on sunday. Rep. Kelvin Buck and REp. Doug Davis who is the chair of the Senate Universities and Colleges Committe will be my guests. Should be a passionate debate. 2pm Sunday. 877 672 7464 or you can stream at mpbonline.org. or follow us @

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:45 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: Faith, love, tolerance, justice, peace...yeah WMartin, I can see how preaching these things can hurt you. Give me modernism any day. What ideals are espoused by modern society? I forgot.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:43 AM
[Kamikaze] Show. Me. Some. Passion.
WMartin: LOL ... No one can froth at the mouth like Walt. Yea!! Screw them tea party people. They only pay the taxes to fund Walt's precious social programs. Why should they be upset that the Dems want more and more of their money and make it harder and harder to do business? So what if they go out of business? They will have the ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:28 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
WMartin: How many more times does the church, the bible, Koran, Talmud and all the pastors and reverends and whoever preaches in the churches have to be wrong before people stop treating what is taught in those places and by those people like.... well, gospel. The sooner people realize that belief in those myths is counter-productive to ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 11:15 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Wintrhop Sargent: Please come to St. Andrew's Cathedral in Downtown Jackson some future Sunday. We are trying our best to reach out to all in the community.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 10:44 AM
Johnson Picks New JPS Board Members
Ironghost: If I recall right, we were in her last class at Boyd before she went to Watkins Elementary. Another chorus of "It's a small world" I guess.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 10:40 AM
[Kamikaze] Show. Me. Some. Passion.
Kamikaze: Not riding the fence sir Walt. Im standing completely on the platform of common sense. Directly in the middle where most assuredly the true answers lie IMO. I dont disagree with you that some of the bile coming from repubs and conservatives is reprehensible but saying nothing at least in my opinion makes the other side no ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 10:37 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: Quote from Klan leader Shane Tate: “We don’t care about the chant, but they have a right to say it,” Tate said. “Everybody has a right to be proud of what they believe in. My ancestors fought in the Confederate war. My folks weren’t slave owners; they were poor folks like everyone else, but they stood tall and fought for ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:51 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: Thanks Donna - I lost my information on my old profile when I changed computers and had to create a new one (and even misspelled the name in my haste to get a new profile). No trolling here...unless you are referring to a method by which I like to catch Rainbow Trout.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:41 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Wintrhop, you were a new user, and thus a "guest" whose comments are moderated until we know that you're not here to troll. I just made you a member, so your comments should show up immediately now.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:37 AM
[Kamikaze] Show. Me. Some. Passion.
baquan2000: @ Walt Kaze, he who rides the fence too long, gets scraped or mangled nuts! Sometimes they even get cut off. LOL. posted by Walt on 11/19/09 at 06:11 PM Walt, you need a microphone and a stage, because you are off the chain! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where do you come up with this stuff? lol!!!!!!!!!

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:27 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: Tech question...does this forum have a conflict with Google Chrome? My last three comments (posted yesterday) have not appeared in this thread.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:13 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: Amen, Maggie, and Amen, again.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:06 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
maggie: Great ed note, Lacey! The hypocrisy of the church is so disheartening, especially as a follower of Christ. The world is full of so many problems that the church has the influence and resources to combat, yet it wastes its time and money attacking the people it's supposed to love. Life is too short to fill it with hate and anger.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 09:06 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Glad u mentioned Barrett, check this out... http://www2.wjtv.com /jtv/news/local/article/k lan_supporter_richard_bar rett_talks_about_ole_miss _controversy/56530/#comme nts

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Nov 20, 2009 | 08:56 AM
Johnson Picks New JPS Board Members
lanier77: Perhaps... Mrs. Nolan has been an integral part of JPS for many years. I'm sure she was in the classroom before she moved on to being a principal. She used to be the principal at Pecan Park - it used to be called something else though..... She's sharp.

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Nov 20, 2009 | 08:45 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Jeff Lucas: Exactly right, Queen. The low-class idiots who thought this chant was "kewl" to keep doing in defiance of the University, students and visitors who found it offensive were determined to bring this kind of attention to campus. They were virtually putting on white sheets and hoods each time they repeated it, and it played right ...

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Nov 20, 2009 | 08:20 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: A. The Klan being there to "make trouble" means that this song is definetely about segregation and that's the old south that they want to see rise again. So any student who argued that this was "just a song" and it's "not that big of a deal" should now let that argument rest as they see it is about white supremacy....just ask the ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 06:11 PM
[Kamikaze] Show. Me. Some. Passion.
Walt: Those flea-baggers (sorry, meant tea-baggers) are a bunch of damn nuts. Anybody can see that. I don't have any respect at all for their crazy asses. Nor do I for Glen Beck or his ilk, no more than I would respect Hitler or what he stood for. I would build up an arsenal of weapons so that I could kill his crazy butt if I had to, ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 05:31 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Walt: Queen you and Donna rocked on this thread. Way to empathize and express. I tell you, sometimes I think more is going on at the dry well than inside the heads of my good buddies, Iron and Bubba. LOL. I don't know what to make of a person who gets chills from the song, Dixie. I wonder what they will get if the right man or woman sang to ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 05:22 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
AGamm627: OK my link posting sucks, but just when Ole Miss's PR nightmare didn't appear to be able to get worse, the Klan will be there. Yes CBS will have the footage of the sixties to juxapose with 2009. here is one link http://bustersports. com/blog/buster-blog/2009 /11/19/kkk-planning-rally -to-protest-ole-miss-figh t-song-ban/ It is also ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 05:18 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Thanks Huckleberry. I appreciate your comments. I accept your challenge to "take another look". I will do that.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 05:14 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Huckleberry: I encourage those of you who seem to have your mind made up about Ole Miss to take another look. Although I haven't been a student there for several years, I visit frequently, and it appears to have made great strides in diversity and openness and in being welcoming to all. The diversity may be hard to recognize on Saturday ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:46 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Certainly can be a model. I can see the Malcolm in you....as a matter of fact it appeared on another thread a little while ago and I dont think I even commented on it because there was no need. LOL I just meant you seem to hold it together very well without getting "too" angry. I need to work on that.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:38 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: I don't know, Queen: I got some Malcolm in me, too, or I certainly use to. You know, they grew toward each other right before they died. That can be a model for us, too. ;-) And Huckleberry, I haven't seen that many attacks on Ole Miss here, but good golly, it's made its own bed over the years. My hat is off, though, to the chancellor ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:24 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Jeff Lucas: When an older white Southerner refers to the 1950s and previous eras such as "The Good Ole Days", most blacks who hear that can't help but wonder, "good for who?"

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:21 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: "Hell, the name of the school is Ole Miss....the Mississippi of Old." Actually queen, the meaning of Ole Miss is much more offensive. "Ole Miss" was a phrase used by slaves when addressing the lady of the house. Its male counterpart was "Ole Massa." This is a little known fact and therefore doesn't receive as much attention ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:19 PM
Barbour Wants to Merge State's Black Universities
Tom Head: NJ, well said. I think the only reasons stuff like "Dixie" and the Confederate flag are acceptable is because they're nostalgia for an era that white Mississippians have never actually experienced. It's sort of like all these young folks who fondly remember the 1950s, which they never lived through, and long to ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:09 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: We just have to learn to be more careful what we say and how we say it. That goes for me too - I apologize for some of the spirited comments I made - just a couple. But the only thing that is worth taking from this conversation is that we are all people. We should never discount what another person or group of people feel. We ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 04:02 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: But, queen, I'm trying to agree here and offer an explanation as to why I and so many others might not have understood why someone would get worked up about this. It's clear to me now that it can be offensive. And, after Huckleberry's explanation, I agree that what the university has done is the right thing. i don't know any other way ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:57 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Oh Lord here we go. Huckleberry you have to come in first off and tell all these people on here who have been discussing this for days that WE don't know what happened. Why on earth would you think that? My opinion of Ole Miss is what it is because it ALWAYS HAS BEEN what it is. I am not even surprised that this is an issue at Ole ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:49 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Ironghost: Heck, I'm not even defending Ole Miss and Donna's back to thinking I'm evil. (I shouldn't type with a headache...)

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:49 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Huckleberry: Hi, folks. I haven't been here in a while but ran across this thread and can’t keep from jumping in, which I will probably regret. What’s up with the bashing of the university?! I feel like some of you here don’t know what happened. To summarize, in recent years, some students started chanting TSWRA in the middle of a song that ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:36 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Thanks Donna. I'm trying so hard to grow as a person...really hard. These in-yo-face type of discussions help. The sad part is that I have yet to bury the emotion and stick to information. Which you clearly have learned to do. If this were the 60's I'd be Malcolm and you'd be Martin. Same fight, different approach. :-) [c} I didn't ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:35 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: this is really stressing me out, too, queen. i really don't appreciate anyone calling me something i'm not, especially people i know and respect. look, i apologize for calling this argument petty. as i'm learning from you and donna right now, some people are very passionate about this. i just like the tune. thats it. but, if its ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:25 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: I'm not married, Baquan. Technically. ;-) Thanks for the proposal, though. Thank you, darling. It all seems kind of basic to me. My personal faith does not allow me to proceed any other way.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:17 PM
[Kamikaze] Show. Me. Some. Passion.
Jeff Lucas: Great column, Kamikaze.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:16 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
baquan2000: It's not petty to me, either. I'm tired of white supremacists sending the controlling messages about what white people are in Mississippi; we're not all backward hicks who don't know how to have empathy for those that our ancestors put through hell. And I don't want the Confederate south to rise again. I'm a white MIssissippian, ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:11 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
jerry pritikin: Lacey... welcome to the 21st Century! The key to happiness is believing in yourself first. Sometimes, we do not follow in our parents, or religious ways that we were taught while growing up. This is not rebelling ... it's part of growing up, and setting our own standards to live by. I happen to have a unique perspective ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:08 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: Queen - in my typing haste, that sentence may not have been constructed with the utmost clarity. It might have been better this way (which is the way it was meant) "STOP using tired old code words to express these beliefs. Don't reach into the negativity of the past, DONT bring forward negative slogans and try to give them ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 03:05 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: The only difference here is that you have called yourself a person who is not a racist, yet you have had the audacity to tell me that my concerns about a song is trivial. I love you, Queen. Truly. We need people like you speaking this truth, whether to friend or foe. And I understand the frustration, although there is no way it could ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:58 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: then STOP using tired old code words to express these beliefs. Don't reach into the negativity of the past, bring forward negative slogans and try to give them new meanings. This is an excuse to not use new words. If we are progressing then why must we even keep the old words. Why is that so important??? WOW, I feel like I have ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:56 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: And Donna, the fact that I do have a baby girl to be concerned about is creating even more of a displeasurable state for me. I have a fight on my hands, but I tell you, these types of conversations make it really difficult not to contemplate letting Mississippi heal itself....if that's even possible. Too bad, my husband would never ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:54 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Look, as I try to be calm here because I am not particularly proud of my last post, the bottome line is this. Though it may not mean the same thing to you; it may offer a totally different experience for you than it does to me. That does not mean that the experience I have with the song or anything else should be considered petty. ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:54 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: I'm not sure who you are without looking you up in the back end, [c]. But don't miss the point: I haven't said everyone who likes the fight song is a racist or a white supremacist. I actually think the biggest problem here is ignorance of our history, and unwillingness to ask people of color what they think of these symbols and assume ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:53 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: Donna - I would be please as punch to see vast numbers of UM students rise up and chant (in reply to TSWRA) "Sit down and shut up before you make us all look like racist idiots!" As I said before, I went to Ole Miss and I have mixed emotions about some of what I experienced there. Should the University get rid of "Ole ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:53 PM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
J.T.: A well-written article, which shines light on why some people are beginning to look at institutions that call themselves Church and ask the question, "What really is Church?"

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:39 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: Guys, you are both friends of mine. And, I think you both know I'm not a racist or a white supremacist by any means. Just like many other issues, this is one of those instances where there's more to it that just black and white(not the races this time). Like many other Mississippians (and non), I grew up going to Ole Miss games starting ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:39 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: If what you want is for the South to live fully into its potential and become the cultural and economic center of this country, then STOP using tired old code words to express these beliefs. Don't reach into the negativity of the past, bring forward negative slogans and try to give them new meanings. If what you REALLY want ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:36 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Winthrop, I'm not confused at all. Of course, students can yell out something at a public football game. The question, as you say, is what the rest of us, including the institution does in response. Speech flows two ways. What is not right is for a public institution to leave symbols in place that were set up to push a hate legacy, or ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:34 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: [c], the chant at Ole Miss isn't about the city and state's Renaissance and you know it. So do the outward bigots who are leading y'all apologists around by the nose hairs. Guess what god you're worshipping when you do that? (Hint: It ain't the good one.) The ultimate irony of your statement is that our state will *never* rise in the ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:30 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: I'd rather have a racist tell me to my face that the south will rise again and white folks will rule once more; than for someone who claims to be against racist to tell me that having angry feelings about a song/chant is petty and not worth the argument. That to me is unacceptable. I understand, Queen. It was an insult of the highest ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:25 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: No, "let's" not, [c]. And please don't ever tell me to "lighten up"; that is almost always a belittling comment from someone either uncomfortable with (or uninformed about) an important topic. I've been around this block enough not to allow myself to be patronized, so don't bother trying. And from your remarks, you don't seem to know ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:22 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: I think we need to examine the difference between what is offensive and what is oppressive. I agree that neither is a good thing, but it would be nearly impossible to live our lives without offending anyone at all. Some people are offended by what others might consider art. Some are offended by speech that others feel is ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:20 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Yeah...YOU clearly do want the south to rise again. Appreciate your honesty. However you could have kept the rest of that sentence.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:19 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: If you have been paying attention you'd know that you are the one who is trying to dictate what we are arguing about here. It has been clear since you wrote this peice what this argument is about....to everyone here, but you or so it seems. Donna, I agree with you, but it does me no good to come on here and read this crap. I have ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:19 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: ...and, you know what? I DO want the South to rise again. I want it to be the economic and cultural center of the country. I want people to want to come here (especially to Mississippi) and say, "Damn. this really is a great place." Do I want to use slave labor to do that? Hell no. That's ridiculous, but I think you would be ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:12 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: Donna, let's lighten up on the white supremacist talk. That's what always takes this over the edge. We all know that there are very few (if any) people, especially in relation to the University of Mississippi, that believe the federal government should be overthrown and that slavery should be reinstituted. At this point, we're not even ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 02:01 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Iron, I didn't call you one of those people. I'm saying that the words out of your mouth make you sound like one. You and your conscience should decide what the difference is. It's not my job to do it for you. But I sure don't mind pointing out to you how you sound. If more people did that to (other) white people who come across as ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:58 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: And, Queen, don't haul ass away; this is a worthy scrap, my friend. And [c], mothball the "PC" crap. Why is it always "politically correct" when a white guy doesn't want to change something put into place by his white supremacist ancestors? That's just an excuse for keeping things the same, and we all know it. Guess what? We're not ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:56 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: It's not petty to me, either. I'm tired of white supremacists sending the controlling messages about what white people are in Mississippi; we're not all backward hicks who don't know how to have empathy for those that our ancestors put through hell. And I don't want the Confederate south to rise again. I'm a white MIssissippian, and ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:42 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Again, IT IS ONLY A PETTY THING TO ARGUE ABOUT IF YOU ARE NOT OFFENDED BY IT. Constantly telling me, as a person who finds it offensive, that it is NOT offensive and even yet, that it is PETTY is even more offensive. I don't care if it's one person saying it. It is not the same as words shouted out in competition either. THE SOUTH ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:37 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
[c]: This seems like a really petty thing to argue about. We're arguing about a chant that some (be it so few that I've never even heard it) of the students/fans at an ole miss game are participating in. The words aren't part of the song...period. Ole Miss fans also yell "Go to hell, LSU" at the end of the national anthem. State fans yell ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:24 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Queen601: Wintrhop Sargent you have made some good points in your posts. You are correct that we have every right to free speech in the country. It would mean more to me if it did not discount the idea of being a nation where we are also to be given the right to justice for all. There is always an if, and or but for every situation when it ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:19 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Ironghost:

Gentlemen, try to think forward, rather than arguing backward. That is, ask what you might not know already, or how other people might feel differently, rather than always swinging at the thin air to prove that everything you've been taught can't possibly be wrong. When you learn to do that, you will no longer be acting like a ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:06 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Here's one piece to think about while you bump along the road to enlightenment, Bubba and Iron; the best way to put this is y'all boys need to figure out how to put yourself in other people's shoes; it's really not all about you and what bothers you and doesn't. Segment from that link: America wants Native Americans confined to a place ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 01:00 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Ironghost:

it still doesn't mean that it's not offensive, and doesn't send the wrong message. And it certainly doesn't mean that there aren't any Choctaws (or other people) who are offended at some idiotic behavior.

I think that if it's fine with the Choctaws, and MC's still cool with the deal, then... what? If you want to campaign against ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:55 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Bubba, did you just fall off a turnip truck?!? I'm going to let you do your own homework on that one. If you are at the point of asking that question, I don't have the space here, or probably the ability, to explain it to you. Good luck to you.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:53 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Wintrhop Sargent: I have a few comments about this whole situation. First, free speech is protected in this country, even objectionalble and offensive speech. We don't have to like it, but I choose to like the constitution more than I dislike certain speech. That being said, the Chancellor is fully within his authority to regulate cheers and ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:22 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
BubbaT: Donna- How is naming a sports team after a tribe offensive?

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:21 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: It is remarkable that (white) lawmakers in Tennessee even tried to pass a law saying the offensive mascot names could never be reversed. Some people simply amaze me. Life is hard enough without working so hard to be mean or superior to people unlike you.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:18 PM
Ceara's Season
Queen601: Baquan have you even thought about what your saying...really? I paid for my yearbook and trust me, there were many things in our yearbook that I didn't like and if I had my say, it would not have been in there. Not to mention that she is also paying for the yearbook. So what matters is what everyone else says and that trumps this young lady's ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 12:10 PM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: "Permission from the tribe"? Really, Iron? You really don't get this, do you? Even if this is true, and somebody official said, "no, please, go ahead and name your sports teams after a tribe of human beings," it still doesn't mean that it's not offensive, and doesn't send the wrong message. And it certainly doesn't mean that there ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:59 AM
Corps Responsible for Katrina Flooding, Court Rules
Ironghost: I wonder if anyone's going to bring the Delta Pump back up.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:57 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
Ironghost: Donna, have you called MC to ask about their relationship with the Choctaws? Last I heard, they had permission from the tribe. Heck, that's the story the NCAA got and believed. If the Choctaws aren't offended by the silly chants, then why are you?

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:53 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
BubbaT: Donna- I'm not understanding what it is you think is wrong with Mississippi College sports teams being call the Choctaws. Your examples don't make sense because Caucasians or African(Negros) are races and Choctaw is a name of a tribe of Native Americans. How is their teams being named after a tribe of Native Americans showing ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:39 AM
Corps Responsible for Katrina Flooding, Court Rules
ladd: Politicians need to stop fiddling with the Corps and let them do their jobs. At this point, and they know it, we need to go full speed ahead with levees in Jackson, or a whole bunch of people are going to say "we told you so." Before the worlds of Pickering, Lott, Bush, et al, started falling apart, the developers ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:22 AM
Corps Responsible for Katrina Flooding, Court Rules
Pilgrim: Anyone besides me think this puts paid to McGowan's development, er, I mean flood control project in a big way?

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:18 AM
Corps Responsible for Katrina Flooding, Court Rules
Jeff Lucas: Humph. I was told it was all George Bush's fault.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 11:16 AM
Ceara's Season
Jeff Lucas: Unless the school made everyone sign a form that explicitly prohibited girls from wearing tuxes or guys from wearing dresses, and as long as she didn't wear anything offensive (like a swastika lapel) that violated written school policy, I don't see how they ever had a solid case to deny her photo an entry into the yearbook. And even if they had ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 10:41 AM
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Nov 19, 2009 | 10:36 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: Lady Havoc, maybe it should be the Mississippi College Caucasians or the Mississippi College Africans (or Negroes)? Doesn't make much sense, does it? The right thing is to change the name that was adopted during less enlightened times? Will they? Not yet. Too many people still holding onto the notion of supremacy, which translates into ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 10:33 AM
[Doyle] From Dixie, With Love
ladd: "They" are hoping that we will let it go, never bring it up and let them continue to disgrace this nation with their simply ridiculous idea that blacks and whites are not equal. True. Many white people in the 1960s and before argued for "gradualism" -- it'll all even out one day. Thank goodness, Dr. King, Malcolm X and many others had ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 10:31 AM
Ceara's Season
ladd: So Baquan, by your logic, if the majority of white students didn't want a black person in the yearbook because they were paying for it, he or she shouldn't be there? You need a crash course on constitutional rights. If the rights of one person is violated, then it's wrong. Civil rights and liberties are not about the will of the majority. If that ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 10:13 AM
[Editor's Note] Love Thy Neighbor
Ryan: Bingo! This is a great editors note that will hopefully encourage people to reflect on the way they treat their fellow human beings. On a side note, considering that Catholic Charities receives roughly $2.64b of its $3.94b income from the government (), I would love to see them lose their contracts with D.C. Maybe then ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 09:55 AM
Ceara's Season
baquan2000: Its a group of her peers that were in the same yearbook, that were paying for the very same book as well? It's kind of like baring Rush Limbaugh from buying into the Rams, people dictated that matter? Now if it was something free and no one was paying for it, who can really make any argument.

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Nov 19, 2009 | 09:23 AM
Ceara's Season
Queen601: Why should it matter if the classmates care?

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Nov 19, 2009 | 09:20 AM
Ceara's Season
traceyw: It doesn't matter what her sexual orientation is. She should follow the rules. I remember those heinous drapes in my senior picture, and I certainly would have preferred to wear something else. But I didn't. She doesn't get to break the rules because she feels more comfortable wearing something else. It sets a precedent, and that's just what the ...

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Nov 19, 2009 | 09:17 AM
Ceara's Season
baquan2000: My biggest concern was the classmates, if they didn't care, I don't see why any of us should?

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