My experiences with Confederate imagery are few and impersonal. The most meaningful thoughts I can contribute to this conversation come not from one or two anecdotes, but from a life as a perpetual fence-sitter on all things contentious. Whether you want to call it empathy or an inexplicable spite of any...
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“Don’t retaliate, or you’ll come off as a stereotype.” In other words, don’t express your opinion or you’ll be identified as an angry black woman. If you know me, you would know that I come off as approachable and respectful. A firm believer in the Golden Rule – treat people the way you would like other people to treat you. However, I will not pass up the...
The coming days and weeks will no doubt be busy, as the University of Mississippi’s Associated Student Body will be discussing and voting on whether to remove the state flag from campus due to its inclusion of Confederate symbols. In a recent letter to the editor, an alumnus of the University urged the ASB to “do the right thing” by keeping the flag and thus...
A few weeks ago, Twitter alerted me to the presence of an ASB Senator who, tragically confusing racism and homophobia with having a conservative political view, had a timeline full of Tweets reflecting such a mistake — at least, that is, until I tweeted him to ask him about it. The aforementioned ASB Senator then blocked me, made his tweets private and supposedly,...
Dear editor, On Nov. 3, we will vote on Initiative 42, a proposed amendment to the state constitution to bring it in line with roughly 45 other states and to ensure that every child has a fundamental right to an adequate and efficient education. This amendment is necessary due to the legislature’s failure, for 16 of the past 18 years, to follow its own law to fund our...
Earlier this month, UCLA’s chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the same fraternity that was removed from the University of Mississippi in 2014, held a “Kanye Western” themed party. Multiple sources stated that some students wore blackface. So far, however, no pictures have provided such evidence. What there is evidence of is male attendees of the party dressed up in baggy...
