Noose Found Around The Neck Of Statue Honoring Civil Rights Icon At Ole Miss

[one_voice]

Police at the University of Mississippi are investigating a racially inflammatory incident involving a statue depicting a civil rights icon.

According to The Daily Mississippian, the student-run newspaper at Ole Miss, a noose was found on Sunday morning around the neck of the school's James Meredith statue. A pre-2003 Georgia state flag, which featured the "stars and bars" of the Confederacy, was also draped around the statue's shoulders.

Meredith became the school's first black student in 1962.

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A contractor who was performing maintenance on the campus library when the incident is believed to have taken place — between 6:30 and 7 a.m. on Sunday, according to Sellers — said he saw two white males in the area, but didn't see them at the statue.

The contractor said that the two individuals were shouting racially charged rhetoric like "white power" and the N-word, and both were wearing camouflage attire. But the latter detail probably doesn't help much.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ole-miss-james-meredith-statue-vandalism-noose

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Disgusting. They hide in the night.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Some wars may never end.

From the time I was eighteen months old (when my mother left) the only love and guidance that I was aware of came from a black woman who came in to take care of me until I was nine. I'll never forget Georgia May.

[lpbk2713]

3. I'll reserve judgment on this until more facts are available.

It could have been a visiting athletic team or other outside provocateurs.

Even so, it was a lowlife thing to do.