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    Why is MSU issuing a statement on the George Floyd Case?


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    I guess other schools are doing likewise?

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    Well, many if not most colleges are doing the same, plus MSU having one of the largest percentages (the most maybe?) of black students in the SEC just might play a factor too. Right or wrong, people care about this issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Well, many if not most colleges are doing the same, plus MSU having one of the largest percentages (the most maybe?) of black students in the SEC just might play a factor too. Right or wrong, people care about this issue.

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    Do you have a beacon that alerts you to anything political thread? I imagine you fly in singing the Mighty Mouse theme song.

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    At least the statement wasnt a complete fail like the raiders tweet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Interpolation_Dawg_EX View Post
    Do you have a beacon that alerts you to anything political thread? I imagine you fly in singing the Mighty Mouse theme song.
    Lol, no. I just happened to be up working/watching the baseball game/posting on the board. I'm sorry my answer to your question ruffled your feathers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BayouDawg View Post
    At least the statement wasnt a complete fail like the raiders tweet.
    Or Nancy's "thanks for dying" statement. I mean, Holy. Shit...people just need to say "Thank you to the American justice system" and call it day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Lol, no. I just happened to be up working/watching the baseball game/posting on the board. I'm sorry my answer to your question ruffled your feathers.
    No feathers ruffled lol just an observation over numerous political threads and input. There's several posters who can be lumped into other topics so don't feel special.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Interpolation_Dawg_EX View Post
    so don't feel special.
    Hey, my kids think I'm special!**

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Or Nancy's "thanks for dying" statement. I mean, Holy. Shit...people just need to say "Thank you to the American justice system" and call it day.
    Did Xancy really say that? Just when I think he cant possibly get any dumber

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    Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
    Hey, my kids think I'm special!**
    Mine think I’m special also!! Ain’t it great!

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    Hope I can become as good as they are! I’m growing everyday!

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    Seems like a good statement to me. A man was murdered for using counterfeit money. It was not warranted. The murder was not without negligence.

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    Mississippi state university did the right thing by making a statement. The university is a learning institution not a sports complex complex. There's a difference between this fantasy board of sports and real life issues occurring in the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulldawg28 View Post
    Mississippi state university did the right thing by making a statement. The university is a learning institution not a sports complex complex. There's a difference between this fantasy board of sports and real life issues occurring in the world.
    An ex-NFL player murdered 6 people recently. It’s also a real life issue. Can you link MSU’s statement on the murder? I can’t find it but I’m confident it’s out there. Thanks in advance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BayouDawg View Post
    Did Xancy really say that? Just when I think he cant possibly get any dumber
    Wrong Nancy, try Pelosi

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    It's not a difficult issue. He committed a crime, was charged, and convicted. The system worked. It works every day in thousands of cases.
    The issue I have with keenum is his virtue signaling, i.e., labeling it a "difficult issue" and making the whole story about racism. Chauvin may be a racist. I have no idea. Neither does keenum. Neither do any of you. We don't know if it was a race issue or not. But we all know it was a crime and a criminal issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by somebodyshotmypaw View Post
    An ex-NFL player murdered 6 people recently. It’s also a real life issue. Can you link MSU’s statement on the murder? I can’t find it but I’m confident it’s out there. Thanks in advance.
    Do you really want to get into "stories"? I can go there with you and could easily up you EVERY time.

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    Because it's the PC thing to do. Major industries are doing the same thing. CEO's are putting out statements left and right and not doing so is seen as a sign of non compliance. That's it in a nutshell.
    "The QB and the receiver weren't on the same page there, but hey its only week eleven". (Jack Cristil)

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    Quote Originally Posted by confucius say View Post
    It's not a difficult issue. He committed a crime, was charged, and convicted. The system worked. It works every day in thousands of cases.
    The issue I have with keenum is his virtue signaling, i.e., labeling it a "difficult issue" and making the whole story about racism. Chauvin may be a racist. I have no idea. Neither does keenum. Neither do any of you. We don't know if it was a race issue or not. But we all know it was a crime and a criminal issue.
    A liberal attorney thinks the verdict was pressured by politics. He has no confidence that this verdict was produced by due process and the rule of law. See below for his interview.

    Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz said he was doubtful that the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict was a product of due process and the rule of law. Instead, he pronounced the verdict the result of "outside influences."

    ''I have no real confidence that this verdict, which may be correct in some ways, but I have no confidence that this verdict was produced by due process and the rule of law, rather than the influence of the crowd," Dershowitz said on Tuesday’s edition of ''Spicer & Co.'' on Newsmax TV.

    The ''outside influences of Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters,'' he said, was like the ''sword of Damocles hanging over the jury,'' and that they were ''basically saying [indirectly to the jury] if you don't convict on the murder charge and all the charges, the cities will burn, the country will be destroyed.''

    Prior to Tuesday's guilty verdict in the Chauvin case, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said at a demonstration in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, ''If nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice.''

    She added: ''We’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business,'' as the Los Angeles Times reported.

    At a press conference in Minneapolis on Monday, the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights figure who has been conferring with the Floyd family, called George Floyd's death "a lynching by knee." He added, "America is on trial," said CNN.

    Dershowitz previously told Newsmax TV that recent comments made by Waters concerning the Chauvin trial were equivalent to ''putting not only a thumb but an elbow on the scales of justice.''

    On Tuesday, Dershowitz said their ''threats and intimidation … seeped into the jury room,'' and ''the judge made a terrible mistake by not sequestering the jury so the judge himself said this case may be reversed on appeal.''

    Jurors must have feared for their lives while deliberating the verdict, Dershowitz said.

    ''The fears, the threats — every juror in that room knew about these threats and when they sit, deliberate, they have to be saying to themselves, consciously or unconsciously, 'If I render a verdict other than a murder verdict, what will the consequences be for me, my family, my friends, my business.' That should never, ever be allowed to seep into a jury room,'' he emphasized.

    ''I can criticize Waters, I can criticize Sharpton," he said. "These folks took what they did right out of the playbook of the Deep South in the 1920s when prominent public officials would whoop up the crowds in front of the courthouse, demanding conviction of Black people or acquittal of white people.

    ''Jurors should not be intimidated or influenced by what goes on outside the courtroom,'' Dershowitz said.

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