Noose Found Around The Neck Of Statue Honoring Civil Rights Icon At Ole Miss...
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Police at the University of Mississippi are investigating a racially inflammatory incident involving a statue depicting a civil rights icon.
According to The Daily Mississippian, the student-run newspaper at Ole Miss, a noose was found on Sunday morning around the neck of the school's James Meredith statue. A pre-2003 Georgia state flag, which featured the "stars and bars" of the Confederacy, was also draped around the statue's shoulders.
Meredith became the school's first black student in 1962.
Authorities are investigating the incident and the Ole Miss Alumni Association has offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, but University Police Chief Calvin Sellers told TPM they "don't have much" in the way of leads.
A contractor who was performing maintenance on the campus library when the incident is believed to have taken place — between 6:30 and 7 a.m. on Sunday, according to Sellers — said he saw two white males in the area, but didn't see them at the statue.
The contractor said that the two individuals were shouting racially charged rhetoric like "? " and the N-word, and both were wearing "camouflage" attire. The latter detail probably doesn't help much.
"Well, in Mississippi it's not unusual for guys to be dressed in camouflage," Sellers told TPM in a phone interview.
Sellers said the surveillance footage that authorities have at the moment isn't very revealing, although there was a camera situated at the main entrance to the campus. That footage hasn't yet been reviewed but unless the suspects entered the campus in a vehicle, Sellers said they're relying on a "hope and a prayer."
The camera, Sellers said, could capture a license number, but likely couldn't provide a definitive picture of the suspects.
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smh. ? Chinamen.
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? Ole Miss.
Hail State. Go Dawgs -
Crackas be crackin, B.
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I say for black history month from now on white people get their ass whooped for 28 days. ...then extend that ? to a year round beatdown.
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For 25K I know one of these white boys friends gon snitch.
That's a easy score -
well at least it wasnt a person
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I dont respect anything a weak ? do on some sneak ? for attention!!!
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White people have no ? chill........
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Just Crackas crackin....
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This is the same school that sarcastically voted an overweight sista as homecoming queen
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Quoted for excellence. Highly slept on post.well at least it wasnt a person
I can't believe people still get their panties in a bunch over something like this.
So, some coward put a noose around the neck of an inanimate object... SO? AND?
I'll start caring when they get the nerve to actually put a noose around the neck of a living, breathing person.
Until then...... NEXT!
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Shizlansky wrote: »For 25K I know one of these white boys friends gon snitch.
That's a easy score
White people will snitch for a pat on the back or an 'atta boy - this should be an open and shut case. -
Racism in Mississippi? Nah.
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Confidential Playa wrote: »This is the same school that sarcastically voted an overweight sista as homecoming queen
For real tho? Thats just.. Damn. Thats some collective, group think ether right there. Terrible. -
Racism?! In Mississippi?!?!
Surely you jest good sir!
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these new age crakkas ain't ? , at LEAST they grand daddies would've stayed around long enough for a ? to get a shot off.
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another reason why i wouldnt ever set foot in Mississippi
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Well...better than the headlines Florida makes frequently . At least the White ppl ? out there . Lol
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these new age crakkas ain't ? , at LEAST they grand daddies would've stayed around long enough for a ? to get a shot off.
their grandaddies might have actually put the noose on a person
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Confidential Playa wrote: »This is the same school that sarcastically voted an overweight sista as homecoming queen
I remember that thread....females were fighting the notion that Mississippi was trolling -
Never understood why black ppl elect to go to Ole Miss if they have other options. The history at that school is disturbing.
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Never understood why black ppl elect to go to Ole Miss if they have other options. The history at that school is disturbing.
I've been living in this state for years and said the same ? to those I know who went there. Alot of blacks in the Delta are divided between Miss St. and Ole ? , but MSU has a history of black history. They were the only "white" school banned from the NCAAs after wanting to play against a black school among other things.
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Confidential Playa wrote: »This is the same school that sarcastically voted an overweight sista as homecoming queen
For real tho? Thats just.. Damn. Thats some collective, group think ether right there. Terrible.
Ole miss troll game on a thousand -
Not surprised at all
