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James Meredith: What I've Learned (Since being the first black at Ole Miss)
Esquire.com ^ | December 21, 2012, | By Cal Fussman

Posted on 12/21/2012 4:10:18 PM PST by WKB

What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: jamesmeredith; kkk; klan; olemiss
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1 posted on 12/21/2012 4:10:22 PM PST by WKB
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To: duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; Vietnam Vet From New Mexico; wardaddy; KLT; ...

Mississippi Ping


2 posted on 12/21/2012 4:12:01 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: WKB
Funny he doesn't look like a Choctaw


3 posted on 12/21/2012 4:16:43 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: WKB

Would I be out of line to suspect that he’s been on SSDI since he was 28 due to a tragic back injury suffered in a slip and fall accident at a nearby Macy’s?


4 posted on 12/21/2012 4:21:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: WKB

Like most radicals, it’s impossible to know what he’s trying to say.


5 posted on 12/21/2012 4:22:19 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: WKB

Its like Democrats. There is NEVER enough that whites can do to. Spending, apologies, litigation, affirmative action, a black Presidents, black AttGen, etc. They want EVERYTHING!


6 posted on 12/21/2012 4:25:19 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: WKB
Mr. Meredith faced a a system of white supremacy.

The man's an American hero.

7 posted on 12/21/2012 4:32:40 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: WKB
Funny he doesn't look like a Choctaw

You'd be surprised at how few Choctaws (and Chickasaws, who are first cousins of the Choctaws) look Indian.

8 posted on 12/21/2012 4:35:54 PM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: Scoutmaster
The man's an American hero.

Bingo.

9 posted on 12/21/2012 4:37:23 PM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: Amberdawn

“Like most radicals”

It was not radical to want to destroy white supremacy.


10 posted on 12/21/2012 4:39:37 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: Gay State Conservative
Yes, you would.

At 28, he was enrolled in Jackson State University.

He was a vet, having served in the USAF from 1951-1960.

If he had a back injury, it could be because he was shot by Aubrey James Norvell in 1966, during the March Against Fear.

Or, he may have tripped during his work as an active Republican, or his campaign as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Mississippi, or while serving as a WDC aide to Jesse Helms.

11 posted on 12/21/2012 4:40:09 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: WKB
Funny he doesn't look like a Choctaw

Does he look 1/16th Choctaw?

12 posted on 12/21/2012 4:44:46 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster

Enough to run for the Senate in Massachusetts, but he’s too smart for the job.


13 posted on 12/21/2012 4:49:42 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: newheart

“You’d be surprised at how few Choctaws...look Indian.”

My wife’s side of the family are card-carrying members of the Choctaw nation, but you would never know it by looking at them. Yet, the documentation shows that her great, great grandfather marched on the Trail of Tears.


14 posted on 12/21/2012 4:50:52 PM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: WKB
It is difficult today to believe the level of rioting and violence directed at a single black veteran trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962. A longtime Republican, Meredith later worked on Sen. Jesse Helms' staff.


James Meredith after being shot in the back in 1966

15 posted on 12/21/2012 4:53:05 PM PST by iowamark
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To: OKRA2012

I said that his writing/speeches were unintelligible, like most of the college educated. The ‘radical’ moniker can be given to anyone far different from the herd.


16 posted on 12/21/2012 4:54:08 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: iowamark
Thanks for the photo. Jack Thornell won the Pulitzer Price for Photography for that photo.

Mr. Meredith was shot by a coward (err, sniper). Other marchers, journalists, and photographers scrambled for cover, leaving Mr. Meredith to pull himself to cover.

By the way, did you know that Mr. Meredith once said that liberal whites were the 'greatest enemy' of American blacks?

17 posted on 12/21/2012 5:11:04 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster
"By the way, did you know that Mr. Meredith once said that liberal whites were the 'greatest enemy' of American blacks?"

And he was right. Too bad some folks here don't realize that Meredith is a strident Conservative.

18 posted on 12/21/2012 5:19:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Amberdawn
Like most radicals, it’s impossible to know what he’s trying to say.

It's easy to know and understand what the most powerful radical of them all is saying. From supplying US weapons to Al Qaeda in Libya and Syria to supplying submarines to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Obama has been perfectly clear who he is supporting. He is in support of world domination by Islam. Obama has never said that but it's perfectly obvious that is what he is doing.

It is obvious, isn't it?

19 posted on 12/21/2012 6:37:18 PM PST by politicianslie (Most Americans can't even recognize massive election fraud. Our first Muslim President laughs at you)
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To: Amberdawn

From the article “ they didn’t know I knew what I knew”. Huh? I heard him give speech once. I was not sure what he was saying - kind of elliptical. That being said I did get to be the presence of a consequential figure in American history.


20 posted on 12/21/2012 6:39:47 PM PST by bunnie911
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