5 Star Recruit Tweets Racist Remarks

#26
#26
TnScooby said:
“Ole Miss was racist haha,”
“I’m sorry people y’all ain’t racist y’all just have KKK marches every month.”

It's tweeted in exact words but the title of the thread is inaccurate..Alrighty then
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"5 Star Recruit Tweets Racist Remarks" is hardly the same thing as "5 Star Recuit Calls Ole Miss 'Racist' on Twitter."

Anyone who read your title would assume it meant that the recruit was tweeting racist comments, not sending tweets with the word "racist" in them.
 
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I read the thread title and thought Paula Dean was given five stars and was tweeting again.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Follow a high school student and what do you expect you'll get?
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Yeah, I know. It just makes me want to bash my head across some bricks every now-and-then. The worst is when I get the privilege of reading Twitter and text speak in my freshman papers. Considering that many of them come to college not knowing how to write anyhow, I guess it just sort of blends right in though.
 
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volprof said:
The worst is when I get the privilege of reading Twitter and text speak in my freshman papers.
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I wonder how much worse my writing might have been if I had come of age in the Twitter era. It was bad enough as it was. We did very little writing in high school.
 
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Velo Vol said:
I wonder how much worse my writing might have been if I had come of age in the Twitter era. It was bad enough as it was. We did very little writing in high school.
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I had a student tell me this summer session that they had not been required to write a single essay in high school. I lost consciousness for just a bit, but I have now accepted the fact that many (if not most) of our high schools are failing our students.

Anyhow, I'll leave it there. I don't want to get too far off track from the thread topic.
 
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CountVolcula said:
He also was at the University of Alabama trying to block the entrance of the first black students

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#38
#38
Since there is no further discussion;
Let's take a VOTE.

???
 
#39
#39
Just hope Marlon Humphrey is bringing his talent to Tuscaloosa. Still remember the 217 yards his daddy ran against the vols.
 
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trevols81 said:
So does Alabama...
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BigSteve09 said:
ESPN didn't make a special about that, though.
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rkw38 said:
Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom- loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.

Alabama governor George Wallace. 1963. From his inauguration speech
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ESPN seems to forget about this in their race to paint Alabama as some champion for equality.
 
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bamawriter said:
You are naive if you think the University of Alabama football team didn't play a part in easing racial tensions in the state.
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The University of Alabama was ready to integrate and allow in the black students. It was Governor Wallace who was standing in the way.

I like hating Bama as much as the next Tennessee fan but I can't put that on the school.
 
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bamawriter said:
You are naive if you think the University of Alabama football team didn't play a part in easing racial tensions in the state.
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rkw38 said:
The University of Alabama was ready to integrate and allow in the black students. It was Governor Wallace who was standing in the way.

I like hating Bama as much as the next Tennessee fan but I can't put that on the school.
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The Bear was instrumental.
Rumor has it, it was because he wanted more talent.
not because he was sensitive about equality.

of course I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure....
but anyone want to place a bet?
 
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OrangeDog said:
The Bear was instrumental.
Rumor has it, it was because he wanted more talent.
not because he was sensitive about equality.

of course I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure....
but anyone want to place a bet?
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USC Bama 1970
 
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bamawriter said:
Our first black player was already enrolled. I think that game was Bear's message to the fans rather than the team.
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It's my understanding that he was enrolled but wasn't playing. Bear set up the USC game to show Governor Wallace that black athletes were necessary to remain relevant.

Bear wanted to integrate the team but Wallace was putting a lot of pressure on him by threat of withholding funds.
 
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