"Ghosts of Ole Miss" on ESPN

[sport historian]

On Tuesday night, ESPN showed "Ghosts of Ole Miss" on "30 for 30." It covers the 1962 James Meredith integration riots but also the undefeated (all white) Ole Miss football team. Pretty much the usual White Guilt theme, but several football clips of the 1962 team along with interviews of several players.

I enjoyed the footage of the Tennessee game when the Vols threatened to upset the Rebels before a key play by Louis Guy. Who else besides me remembers him?

It runs again Wednesday night at 8pm ET.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

My pal Colonel Reb would likely be interested in that (being a former Ole Miss fan...yet no fan of the New Miss Conformists :icon_confused.

 

[Deus Vult]

That filmmaker is a whiny little douchebag! White people have nothing to apologize for, with respect to our supposed "mistreatment" of nonwhites. He may apologize for -- and in so doing disgrace -- his own forebears; but he does not speak for me or mine.

One thing missing from the question of Negroes attending universities, it would have been better to not have this fight. At most, only a small handful of blacks would qualify and attend. They, too, perfer the company of their own kind, especially since the academic standards are more attainable at the historically black colleges.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I've read several articles over the years that follow the same worn out line as I'm sure this piece does. Everytime I think about anything related to the destruction of Ole Miss and the construction of New Miss, my stomach turns. These kinds of White guilt/Southern hit pieces will never stop, even after everyone associated with it is dead.

 

[Deus Vult]

I've read several articles over the years that follow the same worn out line as I'm sure this piece does. Everytime I think about anything related to the destruction of Ole Miss and the construction of New Miss, my stomach turns. These kinds of White guilt/Southern hit pieces will never stop, even after everyone associated with it is dead.

Watching this 30-for-30, there was a sort of "Braveheart" moment. In Mel Gibson's epic movie, there is a great victory about halfway through (at Stirling), though the end is quite different. The documentary goes into the Kennedys sending federal marshals, and how they were jeered and taunted by unarmed students and citizens for much of the day. Then as night fell, the real battle erupted and the DC marshals took an ass-kicking! Of course, in both instances, more of the invaders came, and the battle won gave way to a war lost.

But for that moment, I felt very proud of white Southrons who stood against tyranny. (Unlike the pussified filmmaker, who lamented that one of his uncles may have been part of "that mob").

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Although I don't agree with the statement, that event has been called the last battle of the civil war.