Rebels make the news again

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I know that racism exists all over but there seems to be a culture on that campus and in Oxford that makes people like the statue defacers feel comfortable. It doesn't matter if these particular students are from Georgia, they are Ole Miss students. They represent the Rebels. There may be a minority of people associated with the university that want to eliminate this culture but I feel that most of them want to continue to embrace this culture.

When I was mixing it up with Rebs on Rivals just after the, "Crunchy Mike" episode, they were saying stuff like, "That's just one guy. He doesn't represent the true culture at Ole Miss". To this I replied that the thing that was telling to me wasn't that an OM student was shouting racial slurs like, "F those ******s", but that he was absolutely comfortable shouting it in their precious, popular Grove during a tailgate on game day, and that nobody felt the need to confront or admonish him at the time. To me, the fact that he could do that with little-to-no-fear of being confronted was indicative of the level of intolerance and racism that still exists there. No, I don't think most of the students there are blatantly racist, but I do think a high enough % are as to make it a real problem they continue to have, yet deny.

I think it's also likely another huge % of them care far more about their traditions than they do about fixing the problem.