Lane Kiffin Has Instigated a "Jim Crow Bowl" Between Ole Miss and LSU

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]What it is, folks? It's your homeboy First, back again with another episode of the realest, most entertaining show in the game.

[00:00:09]Put it on something.

[00:00:11]I appreciate y'all being here with me for episode 254 of Put It On Something.

[00:00:20]Okay. LAST WEEK WAS EVENTFUL.

[00:00:24]THE PAST WEEK HAS been eventful.

[00:00:29]Okay? Particularly down here in the South.

[00:00:34]And we going goddamn deal with as much of it as we possibly can here on Put IT ON SOMETHING. STARTING WITH THE JIM CROW BOWL.

[00:00:48]OKAY?

[00:00:49]THAT'S WHAT I'M CALLING IT.

[00:00:51]THE JIM CROW BOWL.

[00:00:55]If you don't know what I'm talking about, your ass BEEN UNDER A ROCK. OKAY?

[00:01:00]THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI. You see, I remember I told y'all.

[00:01:05]I'm doing my best not to call them [ __ ] no damn Old Miss now.

[00:01:09]Okay?

[00:01:10]They say when you learn better, you're supposed to do better. So, I'm doing my best not to call them that.

[00:01:14]SO, THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI and Louisiana State University are having, as someone online called, a Jim Crow off.

[00:01:30]Okay?

[00:01:31]Or actually, actually what they're doing is, they're trying to say who's less Jim Crow-ish in 2026. What the [ __ ] is wrong with America?

[00:01:45]THAT'S WHAT WE ARE.

[00:01:48]IN 2026, there's a debate about which one of these schools doesn't or I SHOULD SAY, WHICH ONE OF THESE schools adheres less to its Jim Crow past? That's where we are right now.

[00:02:06]Okay?

[00:02:07]So, we're going to talk about that right now. We're going to talk about a lot more throughout the show, okay? But, BEFORE WE GET INTO IT, MAKE sure you hit that subscribe button, okay?

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[00:03:24]Okay.

[00:03:25]So, Steve Sarkisian, head coach of Texas, okay? You know they're in the SEC now and everything, you know what I'm talking about? That [ __ ] said at Ole Miss, all you have to do is take basket weaving.

[00:03:38]That's what he said, okay? Now, like I said, that's just a light little jail.

[00:03:43]That ain't nothing, okay? Just a little got got. THAT AIN'T NOTHING, OKAY?

[00:03:47]THIS is what really kicked the Jim Crow BOWL OFF. RIGHT HERE. WHEN THAT BOY Lane Kiffin, former head coach of the University of Mississippi, had this to say to Banner to Field. Let Let Let's look at this [ __ ] Okay. Let's look at it. Okay. And I And I'mma quote this [ __ ] So, when I say Ole Miss, I'm saying it because that's what other [ __ ] are saying either in writing or if I'm quoting them, okay?

[00:04:14]And we going to explain if y'all have missed [ __ ] it. Let Let's deal with it right now.

[00:04:20]I'm not saying Ole [ __ ] Miss no more cuz I always want to Damn. Why other [ __ ] schools don't be saying no [ __ ] like that? It's because these [ __ ] up there at the University of Mississippi, their image is so tied to slavery that their beloved nickname for their damn school is derived from what [ __ ] used to call the woman or the mistress of the plantation.

[00:04:54]Come on, man.

[00:04:57]Come on. But let's go. Let's hear what what Lane told Banner to Field. It says, "In explaining his decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU, Lane Kiffin seems willing to invoke Ole Miss's struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname Ole Miss itself. When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, 'Top recruits would tell him, "Hey coach, we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi." That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus's diversity feels so great.

[00:05:36]It feels like there's no segregation.'

[00:05:38]Now, FIRST OF ALL, WHOEVER THOSE [ __ ] PARENTS ARE, OPEN YOUR EYES.

[00:05:46]OPEN THEM UP, NOW.

[00:05:49]OKAY, and this ain't me defending the University OF MISSISSIPPI.

[00:05:52]BUT, OPEN THEM UP CUZ LOUISIANA AIN'T [ __ ] BUT, Mississippi with the French Quarters. That's it.

[00:06:02]That's it.

[00:06:04]Same type [ __ ] Okay? So, the old parents need to Hey, pump the [ __ ] brakes.

[00:06:12]Okay, Louisiana it it is uh uh ground zero for this Supreme Court case that just gutted UH UH THE BONE THUGS ACT.

[00:06:26]SO, LET'S LET'S NOT ACT LIKE LOUISIANA >> [laughter] >> IS A DAMN bastion of liberalism. Let's not act like uh Baton Rouge is San Francisco. And hell, there's a hell of racism in San Francisco.

[00:06:45][ __ ] That boy laying the [ __ ] Jack.

[00:06:51]I told y'all.

[00:06:53]I told y'all that this [ __ ] between Lane and University of Mississippi was going to get worse than the [ __ ] between us and Prime. I told you.

[00:07:10]I told you. But, see the difference is [ __ ] are attacking Lane.

[00:07:16]Big Sports Media and and just fans in general are are coming for Lane for the most [clears throat] part.

[00:07:23]Now, there is some Mississippi jokes.

[00:07:24]There's always some Mississippi jokes.

[00:07:25]You know what I'm talking about.

[00:07:26]But, folks are looking at Lane like, "Bro, you wasn't saying none of this when you were there."

[00:07:30]You know what I'm saying? Now, now, Lane who ain't going to stand on no [ __ ] business ain't going to stand on no goddamn business whatsoever whatsoever cuz he ain't built like that. He ain't about that life or nothing like that.

[00:07:45]Lane already apologized.

[00:07:48]Lane already apologized, y'all.

[00:07:51]Okay? Look at this. Look what the The Atlantic said. Says, "New LSU coach Lane Kiffin apologized if he offended his former school Ole Miss with his recent comments about the schools and state's racial history. He compared Mississippi to his new home, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he feels like there's no segregation." All right. Here's the quote from the new quotes from from Lane. "I said a narrative that we battled at Ole Miss from out-of-state black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi, okay? I really apologize if anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that."

[00:08:35]This boy.

[00:08:37]Lane Kiffin is laughable.

[00:08:39]Oh, he's so laughable, bro.

[00:08:42]Oh.

[00:08:43]Oh.

[00:08:44]This [ __ ] is so [ __ ] funny to me.

[00:08:48]Okay?

[00:08:49]It's so funny to me because this [ __ ] knew what he was doing.

[00:08:54]He knew what he was He knew what he was saying. And I ain't going with that [ __ ] apology. But now the damage is has been done cuz he got to recruit against University of Mississippi. He got to recruit against them.

[00:09:06]Okay?

[00:09:07]And so he he done what he [clears throat] was trying to do. But before we get into this real [ __ ] let's have some fun with some of these memes that came out of this [ __ ] okay?

[00:09:16]This This brother here put Lane Kiffin on the cover of Mississippi Burning.

[00:09:25]Now, if you don't know, Mississippi Burning is the movie about the killing of the three civil rights workers, Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, uh here in the state of Mississippi.

[00:09:35]They We need a damn biopic on them.

[00:09:39]Okay? You you got Mississippi Burning that ain't really about Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner and their work and [ __ ] Like what motivated them to put their lives on the line like that, you know what I'm saying? We need that. Same thing with Ghosts of Mississippi. That [ __ ] ain't really about Medgar Evers.

[00:09:54]That [ __ ] about the [ __ ] lawyer, you know what I'm saying? That that's that's trying the case against Byron De La Beckwith. But we need something about Medgar Evers, you know what I'm saying? We need that. But I digress. I told you we were going to have some fun. Y'all know that that real [ __ ] just come up in me, okay? Let let let's let's keep having some fun here, okay? Let's look at another one.

[00:10:13]Look at another one.

[00:10:18]Hold on.

[00:10:19]Look.

[00:10:19]>> [snorts] >> Okay. Okay. First of all, first of all, bip the original picture.

[00:10:26]The original picture.

[00:10:28]Where Nancy Pelosi uh uh who was the most powerful woman [ __ ] it. This woman was the most powerful woman in American history.

[00:10:40]In in politics at least. She was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

[00:10:44]I know Kamala Harris was Vice President.

[00:10:46]The Vice President ain't really got no goddamn constitutional power other than the goddamn be there in case the President can't do the do the job and break ties in the Senate, you know what I'm talking about? But this woman right here was Speaker of the House. Don't [ __ ] move in the House of Representatives without the Speaker of the House, you know what I'm talking about? And she WAS THAT. AND HER ass and some of these other Democrats after the murder of George Floyd put on this goddamn garb and took a knee like this.

[00:11:17]That that was some performative [ __ ] that the Democrats could have kept. Y'all could have kept that now, okay? But that again, I'm letting that real [ __ ] seep out. I'm sorry. Sorry. Okay, let's just have some fun for LOOK AT THIS [ __ ] PRACTICE.

[00:11:35]AND LOOK AT THE BOOK HE GOT IN HIS HAND.

[00:11:37]He got a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

[00:11:40]Between the world and me.

[00:11:43]Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the damn writers today for those y'all that don't know. That [ __ ] is a black scholar, you know what I'm talking about, black thinker, writer. He's very influential black intellectual. He one of them [ __ ] you know what I'm talking about? Um I think some people compare him to Baldwin for us today, you know what I'm talking about? It's a perfect to hell >> [laughter] >> Lane. Well, Lane ain't even all the way down on a knee, though.

[00:12:07]Lane ain't down on the knee. You feel me? But the hell, Lane holding that book and had that [ __ ] on.

[00:12:14]Come on, man. D 4 wilding. Let's do another Let's do another one, though.

[00:12:20]Okay.

[00:12:21]Let's do another one.

[00:12:28]Y'all remember Remember the Titans is really a civil rights movie, y'all. I know it's a sports movie, but it it's slick a civil rights movie because it's dealing with integration, okay, and how Herman Boone was able to to use uh football to bring these young men together together, you know what I'm talking about? And to change hearts and minds, you know what I'm talking about?

[00:12:51]And y'all remember Who was that? Coach Yoast?

[00:12:55]The the white coach who Boone Boone took his head coaching job or Boone kept him on the staff or [ __ ] like that. And y'all see they replace him with with Lane Kiffin.

[00:13:07]>> [laughter] >> Oh, [ __ ] Oh, god. Okay, [snorts] okay.

[00:13:15]Now, let's keep going.

[00:13:17]Let's keep going. Hold on. It's It's just a few more, y'all. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[00:13:21]I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[00:13:27]Oh, lord. Oh, look at this. A time to kill. Now, y'all know Jake Brigance was the lawyer who did A Time to Kill.

[00:13:40]He was He was the lawyer who defended Carl Lee Hailey.

[00:13:47]Oh, who was played by Matthew McConaughey.

[00:13:50]This [ __ ] was filmed in Canton, Mississippi, my beloved hometown, okay?

[00:13:54]So, so, go up in there and deal with me.

[00:13:56]I used to show this [ __ ] right here to my students on character education day, you know what I'm talking about at William Sullivan High School. Shout out to all my youngers from William Sullivan High School. Y'all remember I used to show y'all this for character education, you know what I'm talking about. So, I have seen this movie so damn much, you know what I'm talking about cuz I showed it to every class during that character education part of the year where where where I showed my films, which was January through May.

[00:14:21]Where I did [clears throat] my character education character education film series, you know what I'm talking about. And this was one of them. And these [ __ ] did put Lane right there.

[00:14:32]And place on Jake Brigance.

[00:14:35]Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!

[00:14:39]Come on, man.

[00:14:41]Come on, man. These people wilding, bro.

[00:14:44]These people wilding. My my creativity wasn't working good enough, man, to get one of these memes out. I I wanted to.

[00:14:52]But but it was just wasn't working. Look at the one.

[00:14:57]Uh Lincoln.

[00:15:00]Oh god.

[00:15:03]Mhm.

[00:15:04]Come on, man.

[00:15:06]Even though Abraham Lincoln was a [ __ ] white supremacist, y'all.

[00:15:09]Let's not get [ __ ] twisted. But I I get where they coming from.

[00:15:12]I I get what they on.

[00:15:14]Okay? This [ __ ] here crazy.

[00:15:17]This [ __ ] crazy. But I'm telling you something right now. This is some real [ __ ] here.

[00:15:20]Okay?

[00:15:21]Telling you something right now. These folks ain't bullshitting about this.

[00:15:25]Okay?

[00:15:27]They ain't bullshitting.

[00:15:29]Said Lane Kiffin on the sidelines when LSU plays Ole Miss on September 19th.

[00:15:34]They ain't bullshitting.

[00:15:36]>> [clears throat] >> I watched some game in the SEC and I don't remember who the coach was. Lane might have been the god damn coach.

[00:15:41]Some game in the SEC got crazy, bro. Them [ __ ] went to throwing all kind of [ __ ] uh on the field. It might have been like golf balls or something. I don't know.

[00:15:53]They were throwing some [ __ ] on that field that if it was a HBCU, they would have had Cam Newton and and god damn DeSean Jackson calling these [ __ ] ghetto.

[00:16:05]It it was very ratchet. And I'm telling you I anticipate it being very ratchet when the Jim Crow Bowl is played between LSU and the University of Mississippi.

[00:16:17]Okay?

[00:16:18]So so Lane might want to really I don't know. He the play caller. He might just want to stay up in the god damn booth and call the plays and [ __ ] not not be on the sideline.

[00:16:28]Or maybe Lane going to show us he got BIG NUTS AND SAY [ __ ] IT, I'm coming to the sideline with my squad. [ __ ] y'all.

[00:16:34]I don't know.

[00:16:36]I don't know, but that that that [ __ ] going to get wild, you know what I'm talking about? And I and I know we we we supposed to be boycotting the SEC and [ __ ] you know what I'm talking about?

[00:16:43]And I'm I'm going to talk about that in a segment to come, you know what I'm talking about? But I'm going to have to watch that game. I'm going to have to watch that one and cover it cuz I'm going to comment on it cuz I I expect uh uh uh a lot of these stereotypes about white people to be proven incorrect.

[00:17:00]Cuz you going to see some folks act a damn fool. That's what I anticipate.

[00:17:04]Okay? That's what I anticipate. So so Lane might need to come out there if he going to come on that sideline, he might need to come out there like that. Vest on uh uh behind some glass.

[00:17:17]Cuz these folk crazy.

[00:17:19]These folk crazy. But let's get back to some real [ __ ] okay?

[00:17:22]Because former LSU coach and former former coach at the University of Mississippi Ed Orgeron, he had something to say. He said, "I think that stigma is always going to stay with them. Just like other schools have a stigma, but that is definitely there at Ole Miss. Okay, let's let's dig a little deeper here. Okay?

[00:17:45]He got a unique perspective because he coached for both both of them. You know what I'm saying, Matt? Let's see what he said cuz he's basically echoing what uh, uh, Kiffin said. And it says, "Yeah, it was there, no question." Orgeron told WWL's Mike Dittilier, something like that. "I mean, they had a history there of, you know, racism and Colonel Reb. But you know what? When we got there, the kids that we had were treated good and they had success. But we did face it in recruiting and they still have that stigma, but look, they overcame it. They got some great players, they've had success, graduated, went on to the NFL."

[00:18:24]So, that was Ed Orgeron basically echoing uh, what Kiffin was saying.

[00:18:30]All right. Uh, uh, then you got this brother, I found this to be very interesting. This brother pointed this out. Tommy Tuberville, yes, that [ __ ] Tommy Tuberville. Okay?

[00:18:42]The the the the ultra mega senator from from Alabama, that Tommy Tuberville, was considered a progressive coach by Ole Miss standards considering he was willing to admit the use of the Confederate flag was a limiting factor for black athletes. Okay? I I bet YOU Y'ALL WOULDN'T NEVER THINK THAT YOU WOULD SEE TOMMY Tuberville and progressive be mentioned in the same damn sentence that didn't have him ripping a progressive. I bet you ain't think that.

[00:19:17]I bet you ain't think that.

[00:19:19]But but you just saw it.

[00:19:21]You just saw it with your own damn eye.

[00:19:23]And let's dig a little deeper so you can see what this man is talking about. And I know that's probably very difficult for y'all to see, so I'm going I'm going to read it out loud for you, okay? That brother uh uh shared a link to a 1997 article that says this, "Flag ban tugs on Old Miss traditions. Confederate banner impedes athletic recruiting." Okay, and again, this is from October 25th, 1997, okay?

[00:19:53]Uh it seems like this is a CNN uh article. Yes, it is. CNN article. It says, "On any given football Saturday when the And I'm quoting it here. "When the Old Miss Rebels find the end zone, the crowd explodes, you can see Confederate flags being waved." This is 1997, y'all.

[00:20:12]Okay.

[00:20:13]1997.

[00:20:17]I turned 13 years old in October of 1997.

[00:20:24]Okay.

[00:20:25]Here we go.

[00:20:26]"But there are not nearly as many rebel flags as in years past. And there will soon be even fewer if the University of Mississippi's chancellor has his way.

[00:20:35]This week, Chancellor Robert Khayat" I'm probably mispronouncing that. I apologize. "ordered a ban on all sticks at athletic events starting next week.

[00:20:44]It's ostensibly for safety reasons, but no one is fooled. It is clearly an attempt to keep out the Confederate flags attached to those sticks."

[00:20:54]They even had to dress it up like that's that ain't what we doing.

[00:20:59]"At Old Miss, tradition is grudgingly giving way to the political and social reality that the rebel flag is perceived by some people, particularly African-Americans, as a racist symbol.

[00:21:11]Some people, huh?

[00:21:13]Boy, boy, boy. [ __ ] don't say that the damn swastika is perceived by some people as a hate symbol.

[00:21:21]Come on, man. What the [ __ ] are we talking about? We're tired of the attention, the negative publicity that we're getting.

[00:21:27]Say athletic director Pete Boone. "I mean, we've got a great university here, a great academic program, and we're being held back from a national perspective because of this Confederate flag. Saturday's football game against Alabama was the first since Kaia ordered the ban, and while the student senate this week also recommended that the rebel flags be left home, they were particularly visible in the student section.

[00:21:51]Now, think about that, now.

[00:21:53]So, in '97, the students, SO THE YOUNG PEOPLE THE YOUNG people who was only middle-aged [ __ ] today who running the country.

[00:22:06]THEM [ __ ] was still waving them despite the ban. Ain't that a [ __ ] Ain't that a [ __ ] Let's keep going. "Other people can do things and wave things and it and it's fine, but if we do it, it seems like it's racist," complained one student.

[00:22:24]"But it's not racist. We're proud of our Southern heritage."

[00:22:30]There they there that [ __ ] again.

[00:22:35]WHY YOUR GODDAMN SOUTHERN HERITAGE so tied to the Confederate battle flag?

[00:22:43]The Confederate battle flag from the Civil War.

[00:22:46]A Civil War that uh uh was preceded by South Carolina, followed by Mississippi, seceding from the Union.

[00:23:01]To protect slavery. Why the [ __ ] your southern heritage got to be tied to that [ __ ] Come on, man.

[00:23:10]The [ __ ] out of here. Ironically, many of those who have forsaken the flag are older Old Miss fans who express fears about what the Confederate flag in the stands does to the quality of the team on the field. Ain't that a [ __ ] Ain't that A [ __ ] THAT'S WHAT THEY WORRIED ABOUT.

[00:23:26]We can't get the good black balls out here cuz y'all waving this [ __ ] flag.

[00:23:32]That's what them old heads were trying to tell them youngins. Them youngins didn't give a [ __ ] They said, "We want to rep our shit."

[00:23:38]Can't make this [ __ ] up.

[00:23:42]Can't make it up.

[00:23:43]Okay.

[00:23:44]Here's the [ __ ] about Tuberville, y'all.

[00:23:46]Indeed, Old Miss football coach Tommy Tuberville has told fans that the university is losing black recruits because of the because of the flag. He says he's gratified that flags are disappearing.

[00:24:05]Okay. Hold on. Let me Let me get this this last banner down.

[00:24:10]Yeah.

[00:24:12]Just in case you can't see that [ __ ] All right. It says, "I'm proud of our students and our fans and I think they understand the situation," he said.

[00:24:20]"Hopefully, we can continue to make progress." Oh lord, have mercy.

[00:24:25]What the [ __ ] is wrong with Tommy Tuberville? Somebody better check on old Tommy. Okay? Somebody check on him.

[00:24:33]No, he was just caring about that that recruiting, though.

[00:24:35]Okay. But let But let's go somewhere.

[00:24:38]Okay.

[00:24:39]Let's look at something.

[00:24:41]Let's look at this.

[00:24:43]Let's look at this.

[00:24:47]Let's see what Lane talking about.

[00:24:50]Got black families saying this and that about LSU.

[00:24:58]Look at this [ __ ] now.

[00:25:01]It says LSU was a named after the animal tigers.

[00:25:05]They are actually named after the Louisiana tigers.

[00:25:09]A particularly brutal brigade of rebel soldiers in the Civil War who also slaughtered hundreds of freed black men in the New Orleans Massacre in 1866.

[00:25:34]Come on, man.

[00:25:38]Come on, dog.

[00:25:42]Come on, dog.

[00:25:45]Can you see old buddy right there in the picture holding an LSU colored Confederate battle flag?

[00:25:55]Come on, man. Louisiana is just Mississippi with the French Quarter. I'm trying to tell you.

[00:26:02]Trying to tell you.

[00:26:05]Shout out to this real one, Shawn Abraham.

[00:26:08]Okay?

[00:26:10]He posted this.

[00:26:13]Louisiana tigers doing the Civil War.

[00:26:17]Okay.

[00:26:19]Says during the Civil War, Louisiana's battalions and regiments [snorts] of foot soldiers were collectively known as the Louisiana tigers with the reputation for reckless often alcohol-fueled behavior.

[00:26:45]See, I didn't know that little tidbit either.

[00:26:49]I didn't know that.

[00:26:52]I didn't know that.

[00:26:55]I didn't know this about Florida till a few years ago when somebody posted this very helmet online.

[00:27:05]Let's look at Let's look at what this says. It says, "UF meaning University of Florida was 6 and 4 and PSU, Penn State, was 9 and 1.

[00:27:16]PSU felt that playing Florida was a slap in the face.

[00:27:20]Florida wore these helmets as an intimidation tactic against an integrated Penn State team.

[00:27:28]This was also a statement against integration {slash} the Civil Rights Movement.

[00:27:35]Also, the governor at the time, Cecil Farris Bryant, was a UF alum and pro- segregationist.

[00:27:46]Mhm.

[00:27:48]See, look at that.

[00:27:52]So, we got the University of Mississippi.

[00:27:57]You got Louisiana State University.

[00:28:01]You got the University of Florida.

[00:28:07]Mhm.

[00:28:10]It it it it's seeming like all throughout this [ __ ] you got these PWIs with this racist ass history.

[00:28:27]That's what it looks like.

[00:28:30]That would look like Let me Let Let me stay here in uh in Mississippi and share with y'all some about the PWI that I graduated from, the University of Southern Mississippi.

[00:28:47]Okay?

[00:28:48]And this ain't it don't take nothing but a quick Google search and y'all can find this [ __ ] out. I found this [ __ ] out my freshman year down there in the course uh I think uh some course for freshmen where they basically give you some game on uh being a college student and you know, kind of teach you about the university and [ __ ] okay? And I appreciate that librarian who was really as [ __ ] taught taught us about this.

[00:29:12]Okay?

[00:29:13]Let me teach y'all about General Nat.

[00:29:16]Okay? General Nat. It says, "General Nat was an official controversial mascot for the University of Southern Mississippi USC from 1953 to 1972."

[00:29:32]Okay?

[00:29:33]Name origin.

[00:29:35]He was named after Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[00:29:48]>> [snorts] >> Tell you what I said.

[00:29:53]Tell you what I said.

[00:29:56]Not only a Confederate General, the [ __ ] was one of the founders of the Klan.

[00:30:03]And Southern Miss named the mascot after that [ __ ] And that was the mascot from 1953 to '72. I wonder, what was going on in the '50s and the '60s?

[00:30:21]What was going on that you think, you know, and that would that would make them feel like, "No, we want to really uh you know, have an image that's really going against something." Oh, the Civil Rights Movement.

[00:30:33]Mhm.

[00:30:36]Mhm. Look at that. The uh the mascot was typically portrayed by a student on a live horse named son of Dixie.

[00:30:45]Oh, yeah, the the majorettes down there they they're called the Dixie Darlings, by the way.

[00:30:50]Um now, the current mascot is Seymour. So, that was the mascot while I was down there. It's a golden eagle, you know what I'm saying? Very lovable. Uh my kids got pictures with Seymour, you know what I'm talking about?

[00:31:09]But, it used to be General Nat.

[00:31:18]And these [ __ ] say controversial.

[00:31:24]Con- That's an understatement. Again, look at this [ __ ] Nat. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general and wealthy pre-war slave trader WHO BECAME THE FIRST GRAND [screaming] wizard of the KKK.

[00:31:44]Under his leadership the secret of hate organization terrorized black Americans and sought to violently suppress their newly won political rights.

[00:31:57]Come on, man.

[00:32:01]Come on, now.

[00:32:03]Let's go on over there to everybody's beloved Alabama. ROLL TIDE ROLL. LET'S go over there.

[00:32:10]Let's go over there.

[00:32:13]Cuz see, there was once upon a time where Alabama didn't give a [ __ ] if you were the size of Derrick Henry.

[00:32:22]They didn't give a [ __ ] if you could catch footballs like Julio Jones.

[00:32:29]They didn't give a [ __ ] about that.

[00:32:31]They didn't want your ass in there.

[00:32:34]Okay? So much so that the governor of the goddamn state said, "I will stand in the schoolhouse door and prevent their entry before I let [ __ ] go to our University of Alabama."

[00:32:52]And I'll be damned that [ __ ] ain't do what he He did what he said he was going to He stood in the schoolhouse door.

[00:33:01]It just, you know, so it happened that you know, based on how the government is set up, you know what I'm saying? That, you know, President enforcing Brown v. Board of Education trumped his ass. So, the the the that that bald guy you see there with his with his hand arm folded, you know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm saying? The That That's Wallace in the schoolhouse door that uh uh standing straight up, okay? Be- Behind the lectern, okay?

[00:33:28]Again, I wish I had some kind of pointer.

[00:33:32]Okay. Uh Stream Yard, y'all got to give us a [ __ ] pointer or something.

[00:33:36]Or maybe we have that and I just don't know how to [ __ ] use it. Okay.

[00:33:42]But, that's George Wallace. But, the dude standing directly across from George Wallace was sent by John F.

[00:33:48]Kennedy.

[00:33:50]So, Wallace had to get the [ __ ] out the way and Alabama been integrated ever since.

[00:33:57]That was not by choice. [singing] Okay? So, moral of the story is this, y'all.

[00:34:05]Moral of the story is this.

[00:34:09]I don't give a [ __ ] what the nickname of the school is.

[00:34:16]I don't give a [ __ ] what the fight song is or what your perception current perception of that school is.

[00:34:28]All of these [ __ ] white schools in America, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, all down to the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State, Southern Miss, LSU, Alabama, Georgia, you name it.

[00:34:43]GOING OVER THERE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE [ __ ] COUNTRY, they got some kind of racist past because America is Mississippi.

[00:34:54]I said this countless times.

[00:34:57]Okay.

[00:34:59]Said it countless times. So don't don't don't be like one of my colleagues.

[00:35:04]I remember one of my greatest students ever was trying to decide on where she was going to go to school and she told me that one of my colleagues told her "Oh, don't go to Ole Miss, they racist up there. Go go to LSU."

[00:35:21]That That's what was said. This is just ironic that you know, these two schools are the ones going at it, but that's what was said.

[00:35:27]This is in Ooh.

[00:35:33]Early to mid 20 2010s.

[00:35:36]Okay.

[00:35:38]Early to mid 2010s, somewhere up in there.

[00:35:42]So that's what my colleague colleague told her and and the my student told me about it and I said, "Baby, look, don't base it on that cuz Ole Miss, LSU, all of them all I ain't cuss. All of them have that same history, baby.

[00:36:02]Ole Miss just puts it in your [ __ ] face.

[00:36:07]From that nickname Ole Miss to the nickname for the team's Rebels, they put it in your [ __ ] face. Okay, they damn sure used to do it with having Colonel Rebel out there and waving them Confederate flags and all that kind of [ __ ] They just putting it in your face, but all these other [ __ ] feel the same way.

[00:36:25]Okay, they just chose to go ahead and uh try to mask it a little more.

[00:36:31]That's all.

[00:36:34]That's all.

[00:36:36]See, Mississippi, we got the highest percentage of black people. So, the racists in Mississippi, they they have gone harder because there's so many of us. So, they had to be extreme in their uh uh oppression.

[00:36:52]You know what I'm talking about? Cuz once upon a time, we outnumber they [ __ ] asses.

[00:36:55]You know what I'm talking about? Cuz the land is so fertile, so they brought so many enslaved Africans here.

[00:37:00]You feel me?

[00:37:01]But don't get [ __ ] twisted. That don't mean these [ __ ] around THESE OTHER STATES, ESPECIALLY THE ones that I left in our right, Louisiana and Alabama, [ __ ] The one above us, Tennessee, [ __ ] ARKANSAS, [ __ ] GEORGIA, [ __ ] SOUTH CAROLINA, [ __ ] And while I'm at it, New York, [ __ ] California, [ __ ] Cuz America is Mississippi.

[00:37:41]Okay.

[00:37:42]The varying levels, the varying degrees.

[00:37:46]America is Mississippi. We're going to talk about the the the uh calls to boycott the SEC. You know I'm down for it.

[00:37:54]Down for it.

[00:37:56]Okay? But don't let that [ __ ] just be boycott University of Mississippi, but I'mma go to LSU, I'mma go to Alabama cuz they don't feel like that. [ __ ] the [ __ ] they don't.

[00:38:06]Okay?

[00:38:07]You just might have to do a little digging.

[00:38:09]Okay? Might have to do a little research.

[00:38:12]But it's there.

[00:38:14]Everything's out in the open.

[00:38:16]Nothing's left to hide. Okay?

[00:38:19]But I will be tuned in to Jim Crow Bowl. I can't cap about that.

[00:38:24]I probably won't watch any other SEC game. I don't be having no damn time to watch no [ __ ] SEC games anyway.

[00:38:31]Cuz I'll be locked in covering Jack State. And And now with my expansion in coverage that I'll be sharing with the channel members before anybody else, they going to know about my plans for my expansion of coverage. I ain't going to have time to watch this [ __ ] But the Jim Crow Bowl between LSU and and University of Mississippi, I'll be watching that.

[00:38:48]Cuz I want to see how Lane handles himself.

[00:38:53]Okay.

[00:38:55]When he goes into the lion's den.

[00:38:58]Or the rebel's den.

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