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      <![CDATA[The past isn't dead, it's passed out in a frathouse basement, choking to death on its own vomit.
        
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@7, war has been seen by that party as way to advance its own interests since independence. Slavery was a justification for attacking the south and a way to keep the British from intervening in the war.
        
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      <![CDATA[For anyone who doesn't detest folk music, the Chad Mitchell Trio song "Alma Mater (About Ole Miss)" is always worth a listen... and is apparently still relevant.<br />
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      <![CDATA[The party of Lincoln!
        
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      <![CDATA[Don't apologize.  Find those students and expel them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mississippi: Making Louisiana look enlightened for generations.
        
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      <![CDATA[...by shitting itself in a drunken haze, then passing out in a fraternity hallway.
        
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      <![CDATA[@2 - it'd be a full blooded cherokee as president would seal the deal in my opinion
        
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      <![CDATA[Here's hoping that those Real AmeriKKKans have racism-rage induced aneurysms, and then we elect a Latina lesbian in 2016 to finish them off.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ole Miss grad student here. The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation on campus is sponsoring a We Are One Mississippi walk tonight at six local time: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/201897199945755/?notif_t=plan_user_invited" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/events/20189719&hellip;</a> <br />
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