Ole Miss President sees hosting first debate as way to supplant Civil Rights Era image

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From the NYT:

"OXFORD, Miss. — As the University of Mississippi prepares to hold the first debate of the presidential campaign on campus this Friday, it is also preparing a message for the millions who will be watching: Ole Miss has changed.

The university’s chancellor, Robert C. Khayat, a former Ole Miss football star, sees the debate as an unprecedented opportunity to supplant the image of the university formed in 1962, when white students and residents rioted, leaving two dead, in protest of the enrollment of the university’s first black student, James Meredith.

“For many people, 1962 is locked in their memory, as far as Ole Miss is concerned,” Mr. Khayat said. “Now, 46 years later, we’re hosting the presidential debate and one of the candidates is an African-American. That, I think, speaks volumes about where we were and where we are.”

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Those same students are quick to point out that the university still has far to go. At football games, many black students remain seated when the band plays Dixie and fans chant “The South will rise again.” A white fraternity still holds an annual Old South party where escorts in Rebel uniforms and women in hoop skirts mingle at a plantation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/24miss.html?ref=politics

[napi21]

1. Can't do that. Biden is a Senator too. Who GAS about Sarah. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

2. Methinks the gentleman from Mississippi should learn what the word "supplant" means....

Baby steps, maybe. Supplant, NOT.

And right after the Emmitt Till Bill passed the Senate, no less.

:rofl:

[Syrinx]

3. supplant

"to take or move into place of; to supersede."

Besides, that wasn't a quote.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Ah. Well then whoever said it needs to learn what it means...

Unless they were dialing up ironic hyperbole.

[Syrinx]

5. what does "supplant" mean to you?

It basically means "replace." That guy just wants people to realize that today's Mississippi is not the one of 1963.