Ole Miss. The USA, 2026. A long way to go.
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Ole Miss launches investigation after students caught on camera making monkey noises toward home of Black students
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Nothing to do with the current President. I camped at a bar beside the Missouri river in 2009 when bike touring and got into conversation with three locals. A white couple and a black man.
The conversation up until then had been about the tour, where I was from, and the history of the Missouri area. They came from families that had been in the local area for generations. Then, more or less out the blue, I was asked when I thought the world would end. Without giving it much thought I replied I supposed we had a few million years before we had to worry. The white female at the table then expounded her theory that the end of the world was not far away. The sign of this was that in America and all over the world the different races were intermingling. Not like when she was young when they were kept separate. She claimed that the various races were created by god and that mixing them was against god's will. This was either a sign the end of the world was coming or would even cause it.
The oddest thing of all was that while this white woman was saying all this she took no account of the fact that one of the four people at the table was black.He had been slowly shaking his head and rolling his eyes as she spoke.
I changed the subject. Maybe someone braver would have taken her to task but I was there for the night, alone, and there are guns everywhere.
The conversation up until then had been about the tour, where I was from, and the history of the Missouri area. They came from families that had been in the local area for generations. Then, more or less out the blue, I was asked when I thought the world would end. Without giving it much thought I replied I supposed we had a few million years before we had to worry. The white female at the table then expounded her theory that the end of the world was not far away. The sign of this was that in America and all over the world the different races were intermingling. Not like when she was young when they were kept separate. She claimed that the various races were created by god and that mixing them was against god's will. This was either a sign the end of the world was coming or would even cause it.
The oddest thing of all was that while this white woman was saying all this she took no account of the fact that one of the four people at the table was black.He had been slowly shaking his head and rolling his eyes as she spoke.
I changed the subject. Maybe someone braver would have taken her to task but I was there for the night, alone, and there are guns everywhere.
more noteworthy because it's happened in the US.mac96 said:
Seems a bit of a nothing. Someone has just forced the gate into my neighbour's back garden which seems like a much more threatening event than a couple of drunk 18 year old girls making arses of themselves. Not international news though.
I'm struggling to see any connection here at all. mac96 said:
paulguitar said:
I'm struggling to see any connection here at all.
Two minor local events of little significance to anyone. If anything my example is the worse. Drunks shouting abuse racist or otherwise in the street is part of normal life.paulguitar said:
mac96 said:
paulguitar said:
I'm struggling to see any connection here at all.
Two minor local events of little significance to anyone. If anything my example is the worse. Drunks shouting abuse racist or otherwise in the street is part of normal life.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff