Ole Miss donor shares pics of 2 black women as evidence of decline in real estate value & enrollment

[Demovictory9]

Edwin Meek is man behind University of Mississippi's Meek School of Journalism
He's been accused of racism after posting photos of two black women, alluding that their presence leads to a decline in real estate value and school enrollment
One of the women, Ole Miss student Mahoghany Jordan, has spoken out
'The post reeks of racist ideology as well as misogyny and is not representative of who either of us are,' she said, also rejecting his apology
The Meek School of Journalism and University Chancellor Jeff Vitter released statement condemning his post as 'highly offensive'
Students have a started a petition demanding the university remove his name from journalism school

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6191769/Student-pictured-racist-post-University-Mississippi-journalism-school-namesake-speaks-out.html

[GemDigger]

1. Good grief! Asshole.

[dalton99a]

2. Gotta protect the values

[ProudLib72]

5. I like those girls on the right

They do not look pleased, and the one furthest to the right looks downright shocked. "Kimmy's rude behavior gave me a case of the vapours, and I couldn't complete my homework!"

[Docreed2003]

3. "Values we hold dear"...

Wonder what this racist asshole thought of James Merideth a few decades ago. Someone should ask him, he looks old enough to have been present them!

[onenote]

4. Gee, I wonder why hd didn't post this picture instead.

http://thedmonline.com/oxford-police-continue-investigations-into-square-violence-during-alabama-weekend/

[MagickMuffin]

7. I think we know the answer to that one

R A C I S T . . . . TO . . . . THE . . . . C O R E

of his being!

[Scurrilous]

6. I bet he ole misses this:

The ballgame not too long ago...

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Ole Miss students 77+% white and 12.9% African American.

[democratic friend]

9. That's pretty close to the population percentage of the United States

[BlueWI]

10. Although not close to the proportional population of MS. eom

[democratic friend]

11. Good point. Forgot about taking the individual state into consideration

[Separation]

12. I keep saying the one good thing about Trump

Is that he gives these people who would normally hide their racism, and just be a part of the institutionalized racist system. These people are getting the message from their president, that it's ok to think this way. The great thing now though, is they are now being watched! Lights are being shined onto them, and they are being outed as racists.

I say keep it up, it makes identifying these people so much easier.

[Demovictory9]

13. yep. Ed Meek loved to take pics of scantily clad women before integration

But in January, HottyToddy.com published a column in which Meek talked about how much he enjoyed taking "cheesecake" photos, which during the time referred to photos of "a great-looking woman."

The photos were part of a regular Ole Miss student newspaper series called "Campus Cuties."

Meek wrote that the photos were taken in a style mimicking the "often revealing and at least sexy" photos of Hollywood starlets during the late 1950s who young women at the time wanted to emulate — not unlike how young people today try to emulate pop culture icons.


All of the women in the "Campus Cuties" photos that accompanied the article were white, the norm since Ole Miss was not integrated until 1962.

But the two black women featured in his post Wednesday night didn't receive the same fanfare from Meek as the women he used to photograph

"Talk about throwing Brer Rabbit in the briar patch — I was in heaven," he wrote in January of his time taking photos of young women in college. "I got to meet and talk with the most beautiful coeds at a school renowned for its beautiful women and personally select each week’s Campus Cutie."

Meek said everything about the photo shoots was professional, but he did not hide his delight in being so close to "beautiful" — and, at least once, mostly topless — women.

"I recall one occasion when a 'cutie' wanted her photo to be a little more revealing than the usual fare. The photo session took at night in the journalism studio. The coed ... told me to turn away as she took off her blouse and bra (I think) and draped a wrap of some kind around her upper torso. She pulled it into position to show just a hint of cleavage.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/09/20/ed-meek-took-revealing-racy-photos-ole-miss-campus-cuties/1367033002/