re: Kansas is ready for Friday's Border War

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The Jayhawkers never freed a single damn slave

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I’m not going to defend everything they did, but this is factually wrong. They 100% freed slaves. The Sacking of Osceola freed over 200 slaves, and there were smaller operations that also had success.

It’s a rivalry between two historically mid tier teams. Was kind of fun a few times for basketball. And a fake one in modern sports considering the conference shifts. Reminds me of Nebraska and Colorado. Hatred from a bygone era.

I will say though, one of the coolest sporting moments I’ve ever witnessed in person is T Rob blocking Presseys shot in Allen Field House to go to overtime and keep the Big 12 streak alive.

Isn't Kansas nototiously hated by basically everyone who participated in the Civil War? Hell, even the Union didn't even really claim them.

Basically just ultra left wing murdering terrorist groups, no?

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The Jayhawks short for Jayhawkers were militant anti-slavery

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correction. They were anti-black. They did not want slavery in kansas because they wanted to keep blacks out of the state. They even went to the extent of trying to create kansas laws prevent free blacks from entering the state. They were racist to extreme levels.

You've gotta love the edgelord antifa dipshits who worship John Brown. "I don't argue with people who John Brown would've shot." The first person he shot at Harpers Ferry was a free black guy.

I already said that they did things that were despicable. You’re acting like it was the majority of the group when there were rogue groups and guerrilas that at would do these things as Jayhawkers. Yet you’re ignoring that the Bushwhackers were just as bad and led a full scale invasion where they burned a city down and killed over 200 unarmed people, which was largest-scale attack in the entire Border War.

I overstated. It was 160-190 people, but that’s the main event that led to the nickname Bleeding Kansas:

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Missouri should be forced to change their name to Bushwhackers

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Ironically, MU chose what seems like a mundane mascot name like the Tigers because the home guard/ militia for Columbia and the state capital in Jefferson City were known to fight like “ Tigers” and not a ragtag group of farmers & merchants.

I grew up in KC and my parents house sits within three blocks of the actual state line. I went to high school right on the state line.. my Godfather is in the KU Hall of Fame for baseball. My maternal side is all from Kansas..

That being said for having lived in Columbia for the past 30 years, the rivalry in the KC area could be best described as grab-arse and good natured, taunting. In the more rural areas that hatred runs deep and is encoded in blood. Just 12/15 minutes north of Columbia is Centralia, Missouri. Centralia was a hot bed of a rallying point for Captain Quantrell and his men when they were out doing their thing just like in the movie “The Outlaw Josie Wales” Union soldiers came in and raped wives and daughters, hung grandfathers and brothers, and destroyed that rural community. To this day they remember!

One of the coolest things within the last 10 years a really bad tornadic storm blew through and knocked down an old hay barn, sure enough, in the foundation & ruins they found a trove of documentation, Confederate, money & coins, and an ammunition stash that has Provonce back to Captain Quantrell and his Raiders.

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You’re acting like it was the majority of the group


Because it undeniably was.

Bushwhackers were defenders. It was an ultimate FAFO for kansans.

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One thing I know being a life long resident of Missouri is most public schools don't teach the truth or the details of what was occurring in the mid 1850's during the Border War between MO and KS. The first shots and skirmishes that led up to the Civil War began in MO.....long before Fort Sumter.