You’re right, yet black parents still encouraged their sons to attend the university as student-athletes. So they had obviously moved on OR are they knowingly sending their 18 y/o kids to a racist Institution?
They sent them there while they were still selling confederate flags in the bookstore, I am confident that it’s the latter. Black parents were knowingly sending their kids to a racist institution when it integrated, that didn’t make it any less racist.
I've always found this sort of over-the-top hatred of The South, SEC universities, and essentially all things southern to be puzzling. You and at least two others on IE seem incapable of even discussing anything about The South without getting angry and spewing vitriol and ridiculous misinformed stereotypes. I don't know if you realize it or not, but the Civil War has been over for a couple of years, slavery ended long ago, the North had slavery and segregation too, and the people involved in all that stuff are dead and gone. Who are you angry at?
Sounds a lot like my second high school here in Indy. Their school flag was the Rebel Flag up until 1997. I remember it well because that was the year that I transferred in. There were only 2 black kids in the whole school who were both Frosh, and they both also transferred out their Soph year. And maybe about 10 years ago or so they changed their name from the Rebels to the Royals.
The idea that the Confederate Flag is a racist symbol is very recent. Even a few black Southerners displayed it in the 20th Century.
I've made the same point. When I was a kid in the 60s & 70s, it wasn't viewed as racist, but instead as a symbol of regional pride or rebellious independence or something along those lines. I remember a black friend having one in his car. Nobody I knew thought of it as racist. It was a Southern pride thing. The "symbol of racism" is, as you point out, a much more recent development.
Changed in 2021.
The north did not have segregation in the same way the south did and it’s disingenuous to suggest that it did. But you are mischaracterizing my position here. I am not upset at the University of Mississippi for the Civil War, nor am I upset about it for segregation (though the university itself did acquit itself poorly in desegregation), I am upset that as a University and athletic department they continue to operate with racist imagery and a racist and anti-American mascot. I’m critical of the last 40-70 years where the Universitt of Mississippi itself engaged in glorification of the Confederacy. Something that isn’t true of other southern universities.
What racist imagery and anti-American mascot are they continuing to use? They dropped Colonel Rebel more than 15 years ago. I'm not an Ole Miss fan and don't really keep up with what they do, so I genuinely don't know what else you're referring to.
“Rebels”
Seriously? You're offended by that?
Seems like yesterday
You really are a ___ (I’ll let you fill in the gap…) if that “offends” you.
The South is correct for the same reason we capitalize New England, The Mountain West, The Great Plains, or other such distinct regions.
This is complete bullshit.
Did the Irish fight in defense of slavery?
Couple photos of anti segregation rallies/protests in the South in the 60’s. Confederate flag definitely not associated with racists.
You need to understand that The South is not, nor has it ever been, one homogenized, every place and everybody is the same, sort of place, just as every other region of the US isn't either. As a kid in the 60s, all I know was what I experienced in my part of the world, and it wasn't like what you depict in the pictures. No doubt some people did think of the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism, but most didn't in that era. You have consistently viewed the world through a prism of racism since you've been on IE, and it often warps your perspective. You seem to think EVERYTHING is about race. Most of us don't see the world that way. You have an issue that's yours. Stop projecting it on others. The rest of us aren't obsessed with race.
The first iteration of the Klan was started in in Tennessee by former Confederate generals. The following iterations were formed in Georgia.
Nope, it was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee ---just north of the Alabama border. Citation: Birth of the Ku Klux Klan | History | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
