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Racists gotta racist.

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What’s next from these loathsome excuse of students? Posing with shovels around the earthen dam where Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney were buried?
Tell me again why Mississippi is at or near the bottom of most indicators.

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Let’s see:

Frat boys. √
White. √
With guns. √
Racists. √
Mississippi. √

Must be a day that ends in “Y.” √

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No surprise whatsoever that they’re members of the Kappa Alpha Order.

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The Civil War never ended.

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Oooo, oooo, I have one…

How 'bout “The Last Supper” with the Donner party members???!!

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Notice how they wouldn’t do a re-enactment of the Passion of the Christ. That’s too close to home and their politics are in line with Mel Gibson and others in the film.

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“…has been referred to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for further investigation.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! IN other words…it is now beyond the event horizon and will never be heard about again.

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I’m sure faux news will have them on soon portraying them as innocent victims of the politically correct oppressors. Sigh…

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Well, bottom feeders always are at the bottom, . . . of everything.

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“…posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till.”

There seems to be an awful lot of economic insecurity among privileged college-fraternity members.

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Keep in mind, being in Mississippi, and being in one of their MSU/Ole Miss frats, these are part of the ‘elite’ down there.

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maybe, if posing with guns in front of tombstones seems like a good idea, then college really isn’t for you.

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This story breaks my heart more than most stories. Whereas stories about the shit that Trump does and says enrage me, this story just makes me feel so sad and helpless. What sort of human being thinks it’s cool and funny to make light of the memory of Emmett Till?

I just don’t see how these young men are redeemable. Whereas I know Trump is not redeemable (which I’m okay with because he’s going to die soon, alone and hated by the good people of the world), I’m not okay with young people not being redeemable.

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When in Mississippi I worked with a guy named Dale. He was, at the time, probably about 25. Came from an upper class family, lots of money, mom and dad were making him work a shit job without family influence to make him appreciate things a bit more (not that they weren’t also paying his mortgage but anyway…). Smart guy. Good looking - one of those who would be buying beer at the grocery store and the girl working the register reminds him that the age of consent is eighteen. The guy’s life is the one that most of us can only dream of.

Some situation came up where there was some information in his Hotmail account that I needed access to. Long story short, he had to give me his password so I could pull the information.

His password? DieNiggerDie.

This was what…seven years ago? The next generation of Mississippi leaders.

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Ol’ Miss not looking so well! Republican state.

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Agreed. On every college campus I’ve been to, KA has been the most blatantly racist band of privileged boy children I’ve ever encountered.

I happened to be passing one of their houses two years ago as they were having their Old South Day. Dressed in Confederate uniforms, with their girlfriends in Scarlett O’Hara dress, and actual African American servants in white gloves waiting on them. (They probably needed the money, and if GoFundMe existed then I would have paid their night’s salary and tried to raise it back.)

Loathsome. Despicable. Future bankers, judges, officeholders.

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Yeah, no kidding.

Normally such an article would engender a “WTF is wrong with those people?” type question from me but I already know the answer.

As do we all.

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Good old boys from MSU…

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