Quote Originally Posted by Hot Rock View Post
This is true, but as long as there are Mississippi State grads and fans, that love themselves some Rebel flags & Confederate statues, there will be some people that will not see any difference in the two institutions.

I do believe there is a huge difference in the two places myself but that's my perception. I can't perceive something for someone else.

All it takes is one to influence a person's opinion of a place. We all know it's way more than one. We have seen dozens on this board advocating to keep the flag/statues or hating on Kapernick among other things.

Hell, some even quit watching the NFL because a dude took a knee to bring attention to a real problem. Nothing was violent about that or even disrespectful, Trump waving his arms around and dancing during the anthem, that was disrespectful and yet they quit watching a sport and still love themselves some Trump. Go figure

Intelligent people can change their minds when presented new evidence. The evidence is in on so many subjects and yet many refuse to see. For the life of me, I don't understand why anyone would want to honor or celebrate anything confederate unless they are white supremacist or just ignorant of the truth of the purpose the Confederacy.
THIS. 100%. It's sickening the types of things I have read on this site in the past couple weeks. Do people really think racism is all made up and there is no reason to discuss it other than a big media conspiracy? Really??? If you know anything about Mississippi then you know racism is very real... sorry that people asking for it to be put to an end after hundreds of years is interrupting your barbeque pork shoulder and sports watching. People are so selfish... even worse when they try to use Christianity to justify their selfish, backwards, bigoted thinking. It's disgusting. No wonder Mississippi is the laughing stock of the nation. Some people would rather crash and burn than even ATTEMPT to do the right thing.