When is a banana peel just discarded waste?

alh
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 03:12:16 +0000

An article about changing campus culture:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/17/u-mississippi-faculty-and-staff-describe-how-campus-moving-beyond-its-racist-past

There is also more history, including:

Several audience members Thursday expressed shock at video footage of the 2009 protest, in which Klan members and counterprotesters wearing “Turn Your Back on Hate” shirts and reading the Ole Miss creed stood yards from each other, under the watchful eye of law enforcement officers. Speakers explained that Ole Miss, as a public institution, can’t bar nonviolent protests, however offensive the views being expressed.

E. J. Presley, an academic adviser at Ole Miss who attended the university as an undergraduate at the time of 2009 protests, eerily described wondering who was under the hoods. Coming from a nearly all-black high school in a small town that was literally divided by race down a railroad line, Presley said the moment seemed to confirm some of the fears he and other black students had about attending Ole Miss.

“I heard, ‘All those students, they’re going to hang you while you’re up there,’” Presley recalled. “I went from being in the majority to in the minority – and the extreme minority at that.”