Ole' Miss Decides on Mascot

Is this supposed to be ironic? Thats like the Iowa Metropolises or the Nebraska Paved Roads, or the Missouri Rehabbers...unless I'm wrong and Mississippi is a hot bed of Black Bear activity.
 
This little guy finished 2nd...

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Indiginous colored Mammelia of the southern centralized gulf coast region of the proprietary region known as Mississippi....can we get a second opinion from the NAACP?
 
When I was a boy, I actually got to attend an "Ol Miss game. Their colors were blue and grey (confederate grey) and you saw a lot of Confederate flags in the stands.

When they played "Dixie", the crowd went absolutely nuts. It was one of the most impressive things I ever saw.

Maybe not politically correct, but impressive.
 
"Last year, the band stopped playing a fight song to discourage the fan chant, "The South will rise again.""

I mean, seriously? Jeez.
 
Billso said:
"Last year, the band stopped playing a fight song to discourage the fan chant, "The South will rise again.""

I mean, seriously? Jeez.
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The south is a different world. You wouldn't beleive the racism, and belief that slavery was good and the "south will rise again". It's scary.
 
hawkfarmer said:
The south is a different world. You wouldn't beleive the racism, and belief that slavery was good and the "south will rise again". It's scary.
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where do you live? In NC, I see very little racism, people are very open about race relations (at least in my circle). I see people embrace the diversity differently than I saw in Iowa. The rebel flag does have a different meaning here. The mantra "heritage, not hate" often accompanies the rebel flag. I even have seen african americans wearing the flag.

Although I know of at least one school in Iowa that hung the confederate flag in their gyn up into the 90's.
 
Scotttyd said:
where do you live? In NC, I see very little racism, people are very open about race relations (at least in my circle). I see people embrace the diversity differently than I saw in Iowa. The rebel flag does have a different meaning here. The mantra "heritage, not hate" often accompanies the rebel flag. I even have seen african americans wearing the flag.

Although I know of at least one school in Iowa that hung the confederate flag in their gyn up into the 90's.
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True, except the heritage they speak of was a society built directly on the backs of slaves. So you can see why people might get upset with a celebration of a heritage orgininating in racism.

But to get back to the OP... black bears? Lame. Admiral Ackbar would have been the logical choice.
 
Scotttyd said:
where do you live? In NC, I see very little racism, people are very open about race relations (at least in my circle). I see people embrace the diversity differently than I saw in Iowa. The rebel flag does have a different meaning here. The mantra "heritage, not hate" often accompanies the rebel flag. I even have seen african americans wearing the flag.

Although I know of at least one school in Iowa that hung the confederate flag in their gyn up into the 90's.
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I lived in Raleigh, NC which has a wide variety of people, and a lot of people from the north actually. But when you get out into the sticks of NC, it's a little different out there. And your circle could be pretty secluded I guess, I don't know. I'm just saying, there's still a lot of people not happy with the way the civil war, Or "war of northern aggression" as I've heard it called, turned out.
 
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