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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

University of Mississippi to rebuild Confederate statue despite student protest

The University of Mississippi is replacing a Confederate statue on campus which was damaged by a pickup truck last month. Now, students are outraged after learning that the Confederate statue on the Oxford campus will be rebuilt.

Ole Miss student groups are coming together to protest the forthcoming restoration. The University of Mississippi NAACP chapter released a statement in collaboration with the Students Against Social Injustice (SASI) in which they lambasted Ole Miss for their decision to fix the damaged statue instead of retiring the controversial artwork.

“The repair and continued display of this monument by the University of Mississippi will be viewed as a disregard for the safety and inclusion of Black students, staff, and faculty,” the two student groups conveyed in the statement.

JoJo Brown, president of the Ole Miss NAACP, said the statue’s presence on campus is “not a good look.”

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM

    Take down MLK statues he was a WOMANIZER.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 17, 2017 at 10:20 AM

    Refreshing.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 17, 2017 at 10:39 AM

    This attitude of the complaining groups will be viewed as racist.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 17, 2017 at 7:26 PM

    The safety of the students? Will the statue run after them and attack them?

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  5. AnonymousOctober 18, 2017 at 5:43 AM

    Seeing a statue just makes me think crazy thoughts, want to do crazy things, like secede from the Union, or make mint juleps and sit on the veranda.

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