Completely deluded by rightwing media.

Don't blame the parents....too much.

It is known that environment and peers, not parents, have significantly more influence on "kids" than anything else (besides genes).

This tells you something about the environment in Mississippi.

This tells you something alright, but about the PARENTS. When did parents get to not be responsible for their kids?

They are not responsible for their kids' personality. The peers have far more influence. The most obvious example is, kids born to immigrants do not have the accent of their parents, but of their peers. And you know very well few kids are like their parents.

College students are not "kids" no matter how dismissive you want to be.

What are you talking about?.... because it's not what I'm talking about.

but hate radio too.

That would be sweet -- if America could regain control of the Fox Propaganda Network from the Saudi Arabians (R)

WTF?

them messages through their corporate propaganda pumps. It's pretty damn shocking.

READ IT, REPUBLICANS, AND WEEP. Then wake up and stop being SUCKERED by the FatCats.

"The Saudi prince whose post-9/11 relief check was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani has found a more willing recipient in the city for his millions: the head of the Ground Zero mosque project.

"The same Saudi potentate, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, owns the biggest chunk of the parent company of the Fox News Channel outside of the Murdoch family...."

http://www.wnd.com/2010/08/195049/

Don't trust this link? Then get thee to a Googlery. The TRUTH is out there. But you ain't never going to bump into it on Fox.

The sooner, the better.

This election went pretty well, but the dark side gets another crack at destroying America every two years.

They'll eventually win if we don't do something about their propaganda machine.

And...free speech and all has to prevail, but there needs to be set a universal standard for reporting news that gives notice when something is opinion and when it is factual reporting. Fox false news is NOT "news" and should not be able to label itself as such.

idiots.

Their parents probably are proud.

A waste of education money.

Must be another rw station.

were the rioters racially diverse?

This is the last gasp of the ugly white racist.

Be shunned into extinction!

We will take the rest.
Except I think we should also claim New Orleans as a "Special Entertainment and Cultural Zone," but only if they agree...:&gt

for the President. A beautiful shade of blue in a sea of red.

I live in a parish/county next to New Orleans. They gave Romney the highest percentage in the State at 75%.

I have quite a few errands to run today. It's going to be a beautiful day!

That has been tried already.....

In the Civil War the North refused to allow the South to secede. Mutual agreement to form two countries has not be tried.

TX could be its own country as well....except we get Austin privileges. I can't think of any other city in the South that I'd want to visit. I have purposely stayed out of MS and AL...afraid they'd put my yankee ass in jail.

Maybe the US will divide up like the USSR did....everyone got their countries back in their case.

Beautiful states, beautiful music (the blues, bluegrass, that old honky-tonk country, many elements of rock-n-roll), some damn good food, and yes, many lovely people. Cultural problems abound (although even those are far more complex and less polarized than a single presidential vote tally can convey) but we're working on it.

Signed, an unapologetic Tennesseean who loves her state even if none of her votes counted for much this time around.

"...Chapel Hill? Charlottesville? Boone? Durham? Asheville? Athens? Chattanooga Austin privileges..."

And of course, and I used to live in Memphis.. way, way back when Furry Lewis was still there..and so was STAX... :&gt
I bought a hammer dulcimer from Jerry Read Smith in Ashville. my mother went to school in Durham, I've played concerts in Chapel Hill...
sushi in Austin sure beats sushi in Rochester, NY. :&gt (
The Blue Ridge and the Smokies,..

So how do we accommodate that?

genetic makeup similar to that of a polar bear. I lived in Lexington, KY and that is as far south as I could go. I liked living there.

I traveled by car to FL every spring thru high school to visit relatives and I didn't enjoy it very much. Nor did I enjoy my racist relatives.

Don't you want to come visit our great northern cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Philly, Buffalo, Hoboken, Newark, and maybe Baltimore?

I'm more familiar with Burlington, Montpelier, Portland, New York, and Syracuse (have family there). I also have family in Ridgefield, CT.

I've been through Michigan, but not the Detroit part. Went up to Rothbury to sell pizza at a music festival they do up there. It's a beautiful state and the festival was like Bonnaroo but with cooler temperatures, more trees, and less litter.

I haven't yet found a place in this country that didn't interest and charm me...well, I grew up in Georgia and have unpleasant memories of the people and culture I encountered there, but it has its redeeming qualities, too.

(oh yeah, and I passed through Baltimore on the Chinatown Bus from D.C. to New York...where my bus driver almost got in a fist fight with some kind of local attendant...that was an interesting memory, for sure!)

I return to Gainesville twice a year, visit small towns in area, and enjoy my stay where I grew up.

Incidentally, I visit small Texas towns when I am hunting deer and birds. Nice places, all.

you enjoy yourself. Do you eat the animals and/or stuff them for decorations on your southern walls?

I liked Lexington, KY....not many bugs like elsewhere in the south.

Hey, I'm entitled to not like certain areas of this Country. I don't like deserts, for example. And you are entitled to like whatever parts of the country you like.

I like chocolate ice cream better than vanilla. Are you going to say I should like vanilla as much as chocolate.

We all have a right to our opinions.

What you think is nice, I might not.

You are really starting to prove my point about the South and how everyone must like grits, deep-fried food, and humidity.



Go enjoy yourself. And I will enjoy myself north of the Mason Dixon. It's too damn hot and humid in the South. I can barely handle the summers in Ohio. Do you want all of us Yankees to invade your South? I hear that the Research Triangle in NC has become yankified and it's not exactly well received.

So let's just agree to disagree about each other's likes and dislikes. Geez.

humidity -- that stuff existed before I was around.

While we are entitled to like or dislike certain areas of the country, I can't equate chocolate ice cream preferences with how we view our fellow citizens -- there is too much animosity toward others in this country, and regionalism so proves the point. I eat the deer I shoot (just got finished boning out the latest deer for burger and sausage), and have one 10-point set of antlers on the stereo cabinet. I will have a well-stocked freezer by the end of the year! Incidentally, the vast majority of hunters eat what they kill, and quite a few more donate meat to various food pantries. Been going on for years.

have a nice life.

even in the teeth of pRick Scott's blatant vote suppression.

They (and New Orleans ) would be cut off from the rest of us by hundreds of miles of Ignoramustan.

of not getting them. Whatever. You are also a bunch of criminals.

Even the young still imitate parents misguided acts.

eventually die off. Welcome to DU.

If any of them were arrested I hope the police confiscate their phones. You just know these fools were videoing the rampage for You Tube.

My older brother and his friend went to Mississippi for the marches and registration drives. I'm just aghast that young people these days no nothing about these things. I hope the police bust their heads like we got ours busted in 1968 in Chicago.

I rode with fifty other students to OWS last year, and have attended or seen students put together several protests, rallies, information sessions, etc. since then. We are active in using social media, both to spread news and our causes, and also using it strategically to enhance our social entrepreneurship endeavors. I know a lot of young people who canvassed in Ohio and other places to GOTV for Obama.

Frequently our tactics are less confrontational, but the kids I know who are involved in social justice work are using tactics now that they consider favorable to the long term institutionalization of more just and sustainable policies, and the establishment of alternative economic models that do not require a trade off between profit and community well-being.

It's not that I don't believe you, NOT at all. It's that I want to pass it on to people who'd need a link to believe it.

Thanks.

....my opportunity to say it...why in the effin world would black athletes - regardless of the sport, football, basketball, whatever - ever decide to accept a scholarship offer to this damned institution. Guess what kids, they still hate your ass...with the possible exception of Saturdays. Not saying that the the same thing exists on other campuses across the country, but you don't see em in the street protesting...damn these peckerwoods.

Peckerwoods is a nice term for fuckers.

just saying..keep in classy Ole Miss...

With the large percentage of minorities in MS, we will see it switch in our lifetimes. Hell half the south will go blue, once all the old white men are dead.

Alabama has the sex toy ban, the world's worst constitution, Roy Moore, and Tim James.

There are sex toy shops all over bham. Love Stuff....or so I have been told... but yeah worst constitution ever that can never be updated or fixed because of the people in this state......Roy Moore and Tim James.....my fingers almost puked typing that.

in the 7500 block, just sayin'

not that I have been there or anything..

Hey where did you get you avatar? I was hoping for a Bama one... I have been on here for over 8 years and still don't know how to upload my own avatar..

me throw a hazelnut latte.

I prefer a vente, non-fat, 2 Equal Latte... gotta watch the figure. Oh and I tried falsetto once... hurt my throat.

Somebody should tell them to get over it, they lost.

...are receiving aid to help pay for college? How many have been to the doctor lately because they can remain on their parents policy.

Nitwits.

not surprised. Just can't let 'white entitlement' go. Too bad. But not surprised.

where we voted, did not have their flag up today. I live in TN., where all construction workers are 1099'ed and racism is sickening.
I know many local contractors and they were all urging their workers ($10 an hour) to vote rmoney. "He is a business man...)

by a commercial mass communication system predicated on lies and deception regarding matters of reason and emotion. It doesn't matter whether it's selling hate or hamburgers, fear of fries, cars or candidates. It exists to persuade you to buy something, and about $400 billion is spent annually to do it, not a lot less than is spent on public education.

One thing they got right I guess.

Latin for "Thank god for Mississippi"

for a few years...It was the first time I heard, "Thank God for Mississippi" or else we'd be at the bottom.

Despite the overt racism and bad behaviour, there is a vast underground in Mississippi who are liberals. William Faulkner, Kathleen Parker, Eudora Welty and Kevin Sessums who authored Mississippi Sissy.

They tried to explain it away after the riots in 1962--"oh, it was outside agitators," and look where we are today in 2012-- riots, yes, riots because we lawfully elected an African American president. They should ALL be ashamed, but they won't be. I'm sure they're proud of their ugly heritage. I can't imagine UNIVERSITY students behaving like that--really ANYBODY, but god, these should be the years they have to experience diversity, and look what they do. Shame, shame, shame. This is a HUGE blight on the University of Mississippi's reputation, even if the university didn't sanction that kind of behavior. Given its history, this is really beyond the pale.

Narrow minded...SMALL minded...brain washed...no world view...it's "all about me"..."greed is good"...

Just a few of my thoughts, about these goof heads.

The morans live on.

Why do these kids even bother going to college ? So they can turn out to be like their stupid bigot parents. Maybe it's just high school with more students enrolled. WTF are they learning ? A mind is a terrible thing to waste but in this case they don't have one. Inbreeding is the problem with these kids.

....to eliminate racism at their school. Unfortunately, a few racist right-wing thugs have completely erased all of that work.

And once again, some DU posters will seize on this story as yet another reason to bash ALL of the folks who live in the South.

Thanks for introducing me to this guy. Amazing stuff.

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I hope his timeless messages in his "topical songs" enhances your life. I am better for knowing and listening to his music. Try not to look darkly at him after reading about him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs

I had heard that he'd had his larynx damaged from a mugging in South America, got depressed about losing his great singing voice, returned to the States, and subsequently took his life. This information is not detailed in his Wikipedia page. So, I'm not sure if it is factually correct or not. Tom Paxton wrote a song about Phil Ochs' suicide:

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I hope they enjoyed the pepper spray

predicted. As someone said to me once, 'there's nothing more sad than YOUNG conservatives'.

I feel their pain...... not.

A bunch of angry, drunk white guys with nothing but hate and ignorance in their hearts. Fortunately the "Solid South" is solid no more, and things are trending our way, even if it'll take more time for some states to catch up to others.

thanks for sharing the video! I love Nina Simone!!

we're still fighting this battle, but those little pockets of inbred ignorance have to dry up eventually, I hope so anyway.

The late Phil Ochs was the greatest political folk singer of all time. Had he been alive to witness this huge insult he would surely be ashamed. Phil was a hero of mine.

Every student who is identified should be sent to Diversity Training for their very intolerant behavior or expelled.

However, the GOP has been infiltrated by people who are very intolerant and the President had been targeted from day one.

As a Vietnam Veteran I am personally insulted by such uncalled for behavior in 2012 or any time.

an ubersnobby, racist, elitist school. Cotillions are very much in vogue there. Romney clones aplenty there.

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If anyplace can lay claim to being the "Yale of the South", it is probably Duke.

Like much else in America, Yale and the rest of the Ivies have changed considerably since Dumbya was a Deke. These days we practice academic rather than social elitism: "the best and the brightest". And our large endowments make an Ivy League education more affordable for some than state schools like Ole Miss.

Salutations,
K-A
B.A. Y'85, cum laude

or is Ole Miss the old Yale of the SEC

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Vandy is a much more diverse & open-minded university. Ole Miss is Old South pompous, arrogant, gentile snobbery.

everybody's got their heads bowed down
sun don't shine above the ground
ain't a goin' down to Oxford town.

He went down to Oxford town
guns and clubs followed him down
all because his face was brown
better stay away from Oxford town.

Oxford town around the bend
come to the door, he couldn't get in
all because of the color of his skin
what do you think about that, my friend?

Me and my gal, and my gal's son
we got met with a tear gas bomb
don't even know why we come
goin' back to where we come from.

Oxford town in the afternoon
everybody singin' a sorrowful tune
two men died 'neath the Mississippi moon
somebody better investigate soon."

Bob Dylan, 1962, singing about the riots that accompanied James Meredith trying to gain admission to UMiss.

...over Romney loss.

n/t

nt

I guess I'm late. Mississippi has evolved enough to have a University? Or is that what they are calling their high schools? I kid I kid...lol

It looks like the fraternities and sororities emptied into the streets.

Good times, no doubt.

Pathetic losers!