Out comes this article from NBC on their ties to the confederacy, and the resistance in disassociating itself from the past. I didn't realize they only had a 13% African-American undergrad population.
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Out comes this article from NBC on their ties to the confederacy, and the resistance in disassociating itself from the past. I didn't realize they only had a 13% African-American undergrad population.
I balked when it called Ole Miss the state's flagship university but then it notes at the bottom of the article that the author is a graduate of Ole Miss. Go figure.
I disliked a lot about that article.
I think that the university should try to change their image and get rid of some of the symbols from the past that are clearly stemmed from racism. However I really did not like the overall tone of that article.
No shit. Tywin needs to set them straight....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqFk3gvwb20
And an article about MSU that shows how awesome we are: https://apnews.com/1c79b8f4c8974576a3f072b5f204532a
Race baiting huh?
Listen, you are correct in your first assertion. But there are a few minority scholarships that are available for selected majors because their AA population is so little. At least it was that way when i graduated high school. Truth be told...after you've lived 17-18 years of your life in a world dominated by some of the notions present there at OM...what's another 4 years?
?Flagship? is racist. You can google the history of ?flagship? as a term for college education in Mississippi.
In olden days, the state of MS declared the big 3 colleges to ALL be flagships. This term was used to set them apart from the black colleges.
Those times are long gone but not forgotten in Oxford. Why does Ole Miss insist on hanging on to a term which was invented to distinguish them from HSBUs?
I guess....if you want to give your money to support that type of thing more power to you. I chose not to. Not really much of a race baiting thing as it is a right-and-wrong thing.
I was simply referring to the fact that in that article they interviewed students who were offended by the symbols around that campus yet those same students knowingly chose to attend the university. Maybe they didn't take a tour first, or look at the website, or read an article about tsun and it suprised them. I don't know.
2015 African-American % at SEC schools http://www.themaneater.com/stories/p...cial-diversity
Auburn 6.9%
Bama 12%
Ark 5.1%
UF 6.63%
UGA 7.6%
LSU 11.7%
UK 6.6%
Miss 13.4%
Miss St 21%
MO - 7%
USC -10%
UT- 7.3%
Vandy - 8.4%
Not to defend OM - but they are #2 in the SEC behind us....
That flagship is taking on more water with each passing day.
That articles infers that Ole Miss is a place where minority students can't walk around at night for fear that they might be attacked because of their race. It also puts conservatives in the same sentence as people trying to protect white heritage inferring racists.
Ole Miss has some issues but that article is completely agenda driven
You can't just throw out other non-Mississippi schools and compare them. What's the population in MS? Is it consistent? The answer is no. Outside of athletes, black students are not finding good reasons to attend Ole Miss. Given their history and refusal to acknowledge minority students who are harassed, I can certainly understand why.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of “Dawgs” that rush to defend Ole Miss.
Where is the outrage over the schools name "Ole Miss Rebels"?
Why isn't the media after them to change it. It's racist...
Welcome Mississippi Land Sharks..
Maybe they just wanted a law degree. Maybe they wanted to become a doctor. Maybe that's the only school they could get into for their masters.
If you want to go to a particular university, why would you give up on your dream and settle just because of that? We aren't living in those days anymore. It's not like racism is centralized to Oxford. If you honestly can't recognize that they do actually have some decent programs you should get your head out of the sand. I'm no OM fan either but it's really not that hard to look past for the betterment of yourself when it comes to education.
I hope OM gets the death penalty in sports, but I can recognize a communist article when I see one.
I was just trying to show the SEC as a whole.
None of the schools are in line with their state-wide demographics. MS has the highest AA population at 37%, Missouri has the lowest at 12%. Most SEC states are in the 20s range. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...can_population
I bet a lot go there because they get more scholarship money so it ends up cheaper than other places. HBCU aren't exactly respected when it comes to their degrees. I know some have good programs but for the most part, the degree is worth considerably less than a degree from MSU, USM, or Ole Miss. For someone that actually takes academics and their future career more seriously, they probably look more at the other more prestigious schools and choose which is the best for them. Whether the choice is driven by cost, distance from home, or other factors, some black students choose to go there and probably hope they can improve it. The article sounded like the one student involved with the NAACP went there to instigate change. As bad as I hate UM, the state of MS needs them to change. That dumbass school impacts the state's national image. Hell, ESPN gets us confused so if we are recruiting minority students from other parts of the country, UM's negative image can impact how they think they might be treated in Mississippi. The only other alternative is to burn the place down Sherman style which I am ok with.
I don't think pointing out that their AA population is not crazy out of line with other SEC schools is defending Ole Miss.
It's certainly not "defending them" to note that comparing their AA population to the AA population of the state is not a reasonable method for determining whether the university is unwelcoming to AA students. The racial breakdown of roughly college age students in a state who are reasonably prepared to go to a four year university is, due largely to past practices in most (all?) SEC states, very unlikely to match the overall demographic of the State.
I'm sure Ole Miss's AA population is lower than it would be if it were not for their past and current attitudes, but they are not any more out of line than Auburn is, and to my knowledge Auburn does not have anything like the racial baggage ole miss has. Same goes for USC, although USC did have those ass hat students (or sidewalk fans) on Borat...