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Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:00 pm to Pico de Gallo
How long before they go after the name “fighting tigers”.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:02 pm to bullred84
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Soon they'll want us to change our mascot from the fighting tigers too because of its reference to Confederate soldiers from Louisiana. It's just going to keep getting more ridiculous by the day.
Well people keep giving them what they want, why wouldn’t they?
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:05 pm to Pico de Gallo
Rename it "St. Alton's House of Books N shite"
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:06 pm to touchdownjeebus
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How long before they go after the name “fighting tigers”.
Already tried a few years ago. They will try again soon and I hope they succeed.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:06 pm to touchdownjeebus
They will try to do this eventually. You can bet on it.
This post was edited on 6/10/20 at 11:34 pm
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:10 pm to Pico de Gallo
I’m not black, so I don’t know. But if there are some here that could enlighten me, does the Middleton name make them uncomfortable utilizing the current facility? I attended LSU in the 90’s and had no idea of any association to a racial component.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:13 pm to IlikeyouBetty
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does the Middleton name make them uncomfortable utilizing the current facility? I attended LSU in the 90’s and had no idea of any association to a racial component.
He was a white dude. That's going to be the extent of the statue removal requirements from now on.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:21 pm to upgrayedd
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Two years after his retirement, in May 1964, Governor John J. McKeithen came to his office hoping that Middleton would accept a job on a commission that he was forming. The governor was wanting to ease the state's growing racial tensions by creating a biracial commission composed of 21 blacks and 21 whites.
The governor needed a chairman who would command a tremendous amount of respect, and his choice was Middleton. Middleton said he would do it for a year, beginning in 1965, but as had often happened in the past, the year stretched into five, and it wasn't until 1970 when the commission had reached its goals and was disbanded that Middleton was freed from this duty.Middleton's black counterpart on the commission was Dr. Albert Dent, president of Dillard University in New Orleans, and the directors chosen to head the staff of this Commission on Human Relations, Rights, and Responsibilities were white attorney John Martzell and black attorney Jesse N. Stone.
Some of the potential trouble spots where the commission was able to have a positive effect included the towns of Ferriday and Opelousas, and the commission helped to open the ranks of the Louisiana State Police to qualified blacks.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:25 pm to TigerintheNO
That fricking monster.
Burn it to the ground.
Burn it to the ground.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:26 pm to TigerintheNO
This makes me so damn mad. Troy Middleton was an honorable man and is largely responsible for the modern campus. He also accepted the federal desegregation laws and was largely responsible for expediting the integration of LSU.
But he wrote a letter one time where he didn’t support black athletics. So we should scrub his name from history. God people are so fricking stupid.
But he wrote a letter one time where he didn’t support black athletics. So we should scrub his name from history. God people are so fricking stupid.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:27 pm to GetCocky11
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Only 1% of the student body probably knows who he is
All the more reason to leave it as is
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:31 pm to elprez00
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But he wrote a letter one time where he didn’t support black athletics. So we should scrub his name from history. God people are so fricking stupid.
He explicitly said he'd find a reason to keep them from participating as long as he was President. That is bad no matter when he wrote it or how you spin it.
This post was edited on 6/10/20 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:32 pm to upgrayedd
quote:why?
How long before they go after the name “fighting tigers”.
Already tried a few years ago. They will try again soon and I hope they succeed.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:34 pm to mikelbr
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“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
- Lincoln. This is bad no matter when it was written or however you want to spin it. Blow his face off Mt Rushmore and tear down his memorial.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:36 pm to blueboy
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why?
It's going to be the most effective way to wake people up as to what these nihilistic, destructive assholes are really doing.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:37 pm to Pico de Gallo
Glad to see LSU's priorities straight where instead of tearing it down and building a new one, they're keeping the shitty one and renaming it. Smart decision making.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:40 pm to Pico de Gallo
Why is Middleton racist?
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:40 pm to mikelbr
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He explicitly said he'd find a reason to keep them from participating as long as he was President. That is bad no matter when he wrote it or how you spin it.
I’m not spinning anything. But he accepted the desegregation laws and was instrumental in expediting LSU to integrate.
He then headed up a biracial commission by the governor that was responsible for easing racial tensions including getting blacks admitted to the State Police.
If we’re going to admonish people for segregationist views, then you might as well scrub every white man in history prior to 1990.
Posted on 6/10/20 at 10:42 pm to elprez00
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then you might as well scrub every white man in history prior to 1990.
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