Quote Originally Posted by blacklistedbully View Post
That is absolutely disgusting. That asshole should be ashamed.

"The school’s first, most prominent and most important step toward becoming more diversified occurred in 1962 when James Meredith became the first black student to enroll."

He paints this as if it was an action the university, its students and alums took to improve race relations. In reality, they fought it tooth-and-nail, requiring POTUS to send in the National Guard. And there were people shot and killed over it.

Unreal.
Yep. I had a teacher in sociology when I was at state that said he and some others went up there to support the move and were basically run out of town by Ole Miss students. Said that the local PD was handing over their clubs,, gear, and stuff to the protestors and rioters for them to use and they were all out hunting down black people and Meredith supporters until the National Guard came to town. He said it was sickening and was the most egregious, mass-racist activity that he has seen in his life. Scared the hellmout of him. He's never stepped foot back onto their campus.