Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Ole Miss - One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

The James Meredith statue is seen on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Miss., Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. A $25,000 reward is available for information leading to the arrest of two men involved in sullying the statue early Sunday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/The Daily Mississippian, Thomas Graning)
Here we go again - another post on Ole Miss! This time, during Black History month , a noose was found tied around the neck of the statue of James Meredith, the first Black  person to enroll at the white-only University of Mississippi during the 1960s. This coward action simply indicates that regardless of changes to the school's enrollment policy since Meredith's attendance, the racist mentality of some persons have remained the same and their backward thinking has been passed down to younger generations. One step forward........two steps backward!

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