In explaining his decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU, Lane Kiffin seems willing to invoke Ole Miss's struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname "Ole Miss" itself.
When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, “‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation’” https://t.co/kNueefe5qK
Th replies are full of people making points that don’t apply to what he’s saying. Lane is full of 💩 a lot, but he’s not lying. And it was the case lonnnng before he got to Ole Miss. if you weren’t from Mississippi, there was always a hesitation to give them a real shot.
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It's genuinely sweet to see how this resonated with so many people but it does remind me of the Stav bit where he's like "80% of ethnic groups are exactly the same everyone's like oh we're always late, we eat a lot. You call strangers aunts. Only WASPs are not like this"
Toni Morrison: "It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good"
I don’t get what you win from debating people whose political project is founded on the idea that you’re naturally lesser than them and they will wield the power of the state and the billions available to them to create and uphold a system based on that idea.