up with personal accounts of it in Mississippi are they simply trying to enlighten the public and society and offer a personal account of it? Or are they trying to gain clicks and hits on ESPN's website and promote-build up their own careers as writers?
I read the article on ESPN about the writer's life growing up in Jackson MS, his move to New York and his eventual trek back to Oxford and Ole Miss as a writer 'n" residence. Everything is true and accurate about the two different worlds of racial segregation in Mississippi referring to his upbringing and the division between historically black and white colleges, etc. But is any of this ground-breaking, newly discovered information that wasn't known to American society before? I suppose some of it is to those who don't pay attention or those who are still learning about American history. But really I think it's more eye-opening to him and less to the rest of the nation.
But the subtle overtones in the article especially the part about "the white-out" that took place at VH Stadium that was promoted by the school...the author throws the metaphor angle out there or symbolism card out there as to say it represented one side or one race of Mississippi was such a crock of sh*& designed to sensationalize the article, to add more luster and make it a more attractive, edgy article to be read by viewers to confirm old historical sterotypes and to thus gain more attention and clicks on the article thus promoting his career and ESPN's website.
He did give Oxford and Ole Miss credit later in the article by talking about him urging his grandmother and other relatives to come visit him in Oxford when in the past they were very reluctant to do so. I give him credit and thank him for talking about Oxford and Ole Miss today in the year 2015 and talking about how much evolved since decades ago.
But I question seriously those who constantly bring up history, the past and stereotypes in articles, television, cyberspace. Are you trying to sell and profit from racial issues, history and a region? Or are your intentions sincere and are you trying to enlighten, inform and report to the public about racial issues, history and a certain region because you feel its something that most of our nation or society doesn't realize exist?
Thus propelling and constantly bringing up the past, racial issues, history and stereotypes are we prohibiting people and regions from moving forward to the future and making it a better one by learning from the past?
If you tell me something I can learn about it because I wasn't educated about it or informed about it there is great value in that. I can learn from the mistakes of society and apply it to my daily life and work to build a better society so those same problems won't live on or propgate themselves into the future.
But if you constantly tell me something I know about and something society is clearly informed about even after society has gone to GREAT lengths to correct, progress and make the society a better place from its past.. are you really helping the world around you by constantly dragging the ills and wrongs around and broadcasting them to the public? The public will start to question your motives, grow mistrustfull of you and wonder if you're motives are more selfish and self-serving. You won't be making a better world. You'll only delay the progress of society by letting your personal feelings, experiences get in the way of true progress.
If we can live in a color-blind society why not do so? Unfortunately for many out there they can't let go of their personal feelings and opinions thus slinging mud out there to see if it sticks or not.
I read the article on ESPN about the writer's life growing up in Jackson MS, his move to New York and his eventual trek back to Oxford and Ole Miss as a writer 'n" residence. Everything is true and accurate about the two different worlds of racial segregation in Mississippi referring to his upbringing and the division between historically black and white colleges, etc. But is any of this ground-breaking, newly discovered information that wasn't known to American society before? I suppose some of it is to those who don't pay attention or those who are still learning about American history. But really I think it's more eye-opening to him and less to the rest of the nation.
But the subtle overtones in the article especially the part about "the white-out" that took place at VH Stadium that was promoted by the school...the author throws the metaphor angle out there or symbolism card out there as to say it represented one side or one race of Mississippi was such a crock of sh*& designed to sensationalize the article, to add more luster and make it a more attractive, edgy article to be read by viewers to confirm old historical sterotypes and to thus gain more attention and clicks on the article thus promoting his career and ESPN's website.
He did give Oxford and Ole Miss credit later in the article by talking about him urging his grandmother and other relatives to come visit him in Oxford when in the past they were very reluctant to do so. I give him credit and thank him for talking about Oxford and Ole Miss today in the year 2015 and talking about how much evolved since decades ago.
But I question seriously those who constantly bring up history, the past and stereotypes in articles, television, cyberspace. Are you trying to sell and profit from racial issues, history and a region? Or are your intentions sincere and are you trying to enlighten, inform and report to the public about racial issues, history and a certain region because you feel its something that most of our nation or society doesn't realize exist?
Thus propelling and constantly bringing up the past, racial issues, history and stereotypes are we prohibiting people and regions from moving forward to the future and making it a better one by learning from the past?
If you tell me something I can learn about it because I wasn't educated about it or informed about it there is great value in that. I can learn from the mistakes of society and apply it to my daily life and work to build a better society so those same problems won't live on or propgate themselves into the future.
But if you constantly tell me something I know about and something society is clearly informed about even after society has gone to GREAT lengths to correct, progress and make the society a better place from its past.. are you really helping the world around you by constantly dragging the ills and wrongs around and broadcasting them to the public? The public will start to question your motives, grow mistrustfull of you and wonder if you're motives are more selfish and self-serving. You won't be making a better world. You'll only delay the progress of society by letting your personal feelings, experiences get in the way of true progress.
If we can live in a color-blind society why not do so? Unfortunately for many out there they can't let go of their personal feelings and opinions thus slinging mud out there to see if it sticks or not.
