The nation-wide college campus protests surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict have found its way to the University of Mississippi, and it went about as ugly as you could expect it to have at a school that is home to the Ole Miss Rebels.
During the protest, a Black woman is seen being verbally attacked by what appear to be White college students. The students chant “Lizzo” and “fat a–” at the woman. As she approaches them, the students begin making monkey noises and imitate the moves of a monkey.
A counter-protester jumps up and down and hoots like a monkey toward a protester who was live-streaming on her phone at @OleMiss today.
Chants of “lock her up” as the Dean of Students (@marsh_brent) and multiple law enforcement agencies regain order. pic.twitter.com/fCU3hTioVL
— Stacey J. Spiehler (@StaceyJSpiehler) May 3, 2024
Frat bros at @OleMiss chant, "Lizzo! Lizzo!" and shout, "F**k you fatass, f**k you b*tch" at a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.
Do people really think these counterprotestors are doing it to support Jews? pic.twitter.com/gUNYgUR7YL
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) May 3, 2024
The woman is eventually stopped by local law enforcement officers, all White, as the White students begin to chant “lock her up!”
Out of the entire interaction, which has over 50 million views on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves only partially addressed the protest, the portion in which he complimented the students’ behavior. He posted a clip of the students loudly singing the national anthem.
“Warms my heart,” Reeves posted. “I love Mississippi!”
The ‘protests’ at Ole Miss today. Watch with sound.
Warms my heart.
I love Mississippi!
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) May 2, 2024
Reeves has not publicly acknowledged the racist taunting of the young woman yet. Some social media users called out some Black student-athletes who choose to attend the school with deep-rooted history of repeated racist encounters.
And I bet you black athletes will still commit there smh https://t.co/d5zVtC4TWp
— Cobi (@cobiorr) May 3, 2024
Ole Miss plays in yall face more than any PWI in this country, and yall still run up there to wear them words across your chest… 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/mxl9HWeJH8
— Drey (@DNjtrenton) May 3, 2024
Speaking of athletics? Lane Kiffin, the head coach for Ole Miss football, and by far the most notable name and face currently affiliated with the university, has not publicly commented on or acknowledged the situation yet. Kiffin led his team and other students on campus in a “unity walk” in Oxford, Mississippi in the summer of 2020 during the heat of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Ole Miss athletic department, as a whole, hasn’t acknowledged the racist incident yet, either.
The nationwide college protests about the Israel-Palestine conflict stem from the United States being such a major ally of Israel, who many protestors feel are currently trying to wipe out the entire Palestinian population. According to U.S. News & World Report, the United States has given Israel more aid than any other country since World War II, exceeding $260 billion.
The protests haven’t been limited to predominately White institutions, either. Once Morehouse College announced President Joe Biden would be this year’s commencement speaker, students spoke out against the decision because of what’s going on in Palestine and America being complicit in Israel’s attacks.
When asked whether he thought what’s happening in Gaza is a “genocide,” Thomas refused to answer. pic.twitter.com/F7Z2bbPs13
— Chauncey L. Alcorn (@CLamontLives) April 25, 2024
10 Responses
Those ignorant students are disgusting! How old are they 7 ? 8? What century do they think this is? They’re ugliness is just as disgusting as antisemitism and it wouldn’t surprise me if they were guilty of that too! They are in collage and supposed to broadening their minds but these students are just wasting their opportunities to learn about other cultures! They may as well go home this is the state that murdered so many Blacks for the color of their skin, they don’t deserve another chance, they can’t learn anything!
She was doing it not as a black woman but a terrorist sympathizer. Just wanting to play the race card because she has nothing else going for her
You’ve got nothing going for you either, you bald headed weirdo. Here’s 3 dollars, go to Starbucks and shut up
Ignorance is bliss, to protest is their right to exhibit racial behavior is not. To claim someone is pulling the race card when actually being racially attacked, makes YOU a racist and a small minded ignorant person. This is 2024 when will we learn to live as the human race? We each must do our part to bring unity. The behavior is despicable and will continue because instead of checking these people they’re applauded for their racist actions. They demand the right to protest and voice their opinions but deny that right to those with a different opinion. Think about it!!!!
Shut you ignorant ass up. Who said she played the race card???? The students made it about race with their deep rooted racist acts. Low intelligence comes in white. Play that card idiot. Trump supporters are the stupidest people on the planet. Just baseless banter with no supporting facts.
STFU. You can be pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas at the same time. You must be U of Mississippi student.
IGNORANCE run amok!! Ole Miss students are certainly a SADLY PITIABLE lot of people!!
So…SHE is playing the ‘race card’…by FORCING the Ole Miss students to call her ‘fat-a**’ and make monkey sounds? Wow, what powers of manipulation! And the poor Ole Miss students had NO control over their actions because the ‘Race Card’ make them do it.
Just wondering: What article were you reading?
Where’s the line of demarcation? Is the free speech of protesters supporting the eradication of Jews (from the river to the sea, Zionism) more free than these taunts? There should never be tolerance of hate FROM ANYONE. You can’t condone one and condemn the other, on either side.
When are you going to get that racist has not left , changed those who are now feel they can come out of the closet. Better pay attention and they need to pay attention whose outside of the closet. It’s a different world from before. This is how they really feel, some maybe getting this filth from their parents, but they have their own minds. Let that sink in!