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Senior Fellow William Shughart: Slavery and Ole Miss are anachronisms, but history happened and cannot be expunged by linguistic revisionism, unless we are willing to establish an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that erases our collective memory. Ole Miss already has banned the Beauregard (Rebel) flag and Colonel Reb as its on-field mascot, substituting for them a black bear having no historical context other than a possibly apocryphal bear-shooting visit to the state by Teddy Roosevelt.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:00:01 +0000

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