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Monday, December 1, 2014 THE DAILY Volume 103, No. 63 THE STUDENTMISSISSIPPIAN NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 Visit theDMonline.com @thedm_news OLE MISS FOOTBALL review egg bowl 2014 PHOTO BY: CADY HERRING opinion PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 1 DECEMBER 2014 | OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: LACEY RUSSELL editor-in-chief [email protected] SARAH PARRISH managing editor [email protected] MACKENZIE HICKS copy chief [email protected] LOGAN KIRKLAND MAGGIE MCDANIEL news editors [email protected] KYLIE MCFADDEN assistant news editor DYLAN RUBINO sports editor [email protected] CLARA TURNAGE lifestyles editor [email protected] SIERRA MANNIE opinion editor COLUMN [email protected] CADY HERRING No indictment photography editor for the “justice” system will not and we will speak, scream and this boy got what he deserved. [email protected] RACHEL GRANGER [email protected] mirror our disdain because your march for our brothers. And blacks, we got the short end pigment does not mirror our pig- Racism is an issue in America of the stick, as always, but as Papa ALLI MOORE As I sat there and listened to the ment, and your history sure does that cannot be ignored. We can Pope said, “You have to be twice MADDIE THEOBALD prosecutor say the words “no in- not mirror our history. not pretend it does not exist, and as good to get half of what they ELLEN WHITAKER dictment,” tears filled my eyes. Your history is not filled with we sure cannot be “color blind.” It have.” design editors I was asked, “Did you expect the “other race” being on top. You is an issue that has permeated our So what does that mean? differently?” were never owned by us. You were educational, social and judicial Bust your butt to bust the ste- THOMAS GRANING No, of course I did not, but I never sold by us, and if you were systems. It will only discontinue reotype. We cannot change how multimedia editor had hoped — not hope for justice killed by us, it was definitely con- crippling our country when whites they think, but we can act in such [email protected] for Michael Brown but hope that sidered a crime. accept their privilege, and blacks a way to make their thoughts be- this country had made progress You call the people of Ferguson accept their lack thereof. come a lie. KRISTIN JACKSON — that America respected black animals because of how they are It’s not your fault you are priv- Does that mean change who digital content coordinator men enough to say, “Killing an responding to the situation, but ileged, but it is your fault you are you are? unarmed black man is a crime.” some of you fail to remember that unaware of it. No. ADVERTISING STAFF: Yet, according to America, it is not you sold us like animals. You fail You cannot change it, but you Embrace and develop who you a crime. to empathize because your judge- can learn to understand it. Learn are. Become the people you have MATT ZELENIK The moment my tears of pain ment is so clouded by your privi- to listen to the way African-Amer- been quoting these past days. advertising sales manager turned into tears of anger was the lege. icans feel without deciding that Become Martin Luther King Jr., [email protected] moment I read the hurtful, igno- If seeing the American flag burn they are only playing the race card Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois. Be- EMILY FORSYTHE rant and inconsiderate comments hurts more than knowing that an and that their feelings are invalid. come the system, and rip it to DAVID JONES from my less than educated Face- unarmed boy was shot at least six Think about how much you love shreds from the inside out. Play EVAN MILLER book friends. times, then maybe this is the time and support the beauty of black the game and beat them at it. CAROLYN SMITH “You all are not lawyers, and to check your privilege. Because culture but how quickly you are On Nov. 24, the judicial system account executives you do not know all the evidence. what you seem to not understand disgusted with black people and failed us again. American citizens, Trust the system.” is that the same way the American their struggle. Everyone wants to do not fail each other. MARA BENSING What system? The system that flag means protection and liberty be black until it’s dark. “Then they came for me — and KIM SANNER was created to screw over Afri- for you, it means slavery and per- Well it’s dark, and this is the there was no one left to speak for creative designers can-Americans? The system that secution for many African-Amer- time to either be the light or shut me.” sprayed us with water hoses and icans. up. Either you empathize with We all have voices; do not allow S. GALE DENLEY put German Shepherds on us? The “liberty and justice for all” the black culture that you love history to determine which voices STUDENT MEDIA CENTER Trust that system? What do you allowed to whites in America is to bump in your car and watch are heard and unheard. not what we as blacks experience. on your TV, or you be silent and PATRICIA THOMPSON all not understand? Director of Student Media and Our relationships with police We are not always treated like watch our pain, but do not taunt Rachel Granger is a junior in- Daily Mississippian Faculty officers will never be the same Americans; we are treated as us. Do not call us the n-word or ternational studies major from Adviser as yours. The respect you have blacks. Therefore, we are black, animals, and do not dare say that Pearl. ROY FROSTENSON Assistant Director/Radio and THE DAILY The Daily Mississippian The Daily Mississippian welcomes letters to the editor. 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Broadcast Chief Engineer opinion OPINION | 1 DECEMBER 2014 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | PAGE 3 COLUMN How not to talk about police brutality SIERRA MANNIE ing the police accountable ing about racism instead of that people in Palestine, Hong than it does non-minorities, [email protected] for excessive force, any more the injustices that cause them Kong and North Korea reach you could just not. than bumbling, trigger-hap- to speak out is perpetuate that out to express their sympathy If you can’t take the evils It’s pretty irresponsible to py police officers should be injustice. for the abused and to con- of racism seriously, then at ignore police brutality just be- absolved of responsibility for Too often I see simpleton demn their abusers. The USA least hold yourself account- cause you feel as if black peo- mowing down American citi- Tweets and status updates even got Kim Jong Un feeling able when it comes to police ple should stop complaining zens in the street. that cry that police brutality some type of way. brutality and know that it’s about racism. To argue that you aren’t doesn’t just happen to black Instead of debating how wrong every time it happens, Last week, a grand jury in racist when you say anti-black people, as if this is somehow those affected by racism no matter to whom. Ferguson, Missouri, surprised things or to try to reroute news that people didn’t know should feel about racism, or no one by failing to indict Of- crucial conversations about already. No duh, sis. Police doing even more violence Sierra Mannie is a senior ficer Darren Wilson for the race just because you feel as brutality happens to everyone, against minorities by denying Classics major from Ridge- Aug.