Ole Miss "Rebel Black Bear"

• Tiger2003

  

  WTF are they thinking......
  
  http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2010/10/new_ole_miss_mascot_to_be_rebe.html
• Jughead

  

  We want Ackbar, damnit!
• Little Danny

  

  Waiting for someone to say BLACK bear is racist. HAHA
• bigkahuna

  Forgive me, but why are they doing away with Colonel Reb?
• Little Danny

  

  bigkahuna;519711 wrote:Forgive me, but why are they doing away with Colonel Reb?

  
  Political Correctness. The school officially stated there was concern the mascot kept African-American students/student-athletes from enrolling at Ole Miss, thus the change.
• Speedofsand

  

  'Rebel White Bear' would have been protested as racist.
• rydawg5

  Speedofsand;519732 wrote:'Rebel White Bear' would have been protested as racist.

  
  Actually, it would just be the Ole Miss Polar Bears.. noting racist about that
• sleeper

  

  Only in the SEC...
• krambman

  

  They actually did try to work out an agreement with Lucasfilms to use Admiral Acbar as their mascot but Lucasfilms was unwilling to give them permission.
• gerb131

  

  Where do these bears live in Mississippi, Pascagoula?
• bigkahuna

  Little Danny;519718 wrote:Political Correctness. The school officially stated there was concern the mascot kept African-American students/student-athletes from enrolling at Ole Miss, thus the change.

  As a proud liberal, PC can go Fuck Itself.
• Sykotyk

  

  bigk, same with me. However, I'm sure the school knows their numbers and is trying to figure out how to diversify their campus and having an old white plantation owner for a mascot may be seen as a possible reason.
  
  Either way, the black bear just seems out of place without a name change to correspond.
  
  Sykotyk
• Tiernan

  Wow how condescending can these idiots be? Its a racist slap in the face to all prospective African-American students to believe these young men & women might be basing their college choice on who / what the efn mascot might be.
  
  ...and doesn't the word "Rebel" conjure up images of slavery no matter whether its attached to a bear or an old man? Too bad Katrina didn't finish the job in Mississippi.
• darbypitcher22

  

  Admiral Ackbar would have been awesome
• lhslep134

  

  darbypitcher22;520077 wrote:Admiral Ackbar would have been awesome

  
  Absolutely
• bigkahuna

  Well, I'm 1/2 black but fully don't give a shit if their mascot is a plantation owner.
• Little Danny

  

  How come nobody says chit about UNLV being the Running Rebs?
• dtdtim

  If Ole Miss put as much thought and time into improving their academic reputation as they did their mascot, maybe more people would enroll.
  
  Rebel Black Bear or Colonel Reb, it is still MISSISSIPPI.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Little Danny;521268 wrote:How come nobody says chit about UNLV being the Running Rebs?

  Because obviously, their mascot isn't some rebel caricature (sarcasm alert).
  
  
• Little Danny

  

  dtdtim;521328 wrote:If Ole Miss put as much thought and time into improving their academic reputation as they did their mascot, maybe more people would enroll.
  
  Rebel Black Bear or Colonel Reb, it is still MISSISSIPPI.

  
  Not sure if you have ever been to Oxford, MS but Ole Miss is one of the nicest campuses in the country. It very much looks like Miami (OH) in Oxford, OH with all of its brick buildings and green space. What's more, Ole Miss may have the hottest co-eds east of Arizona State. They are one of the better academic schools in the SEC (albeit they are a far cry from Vanderbilt which is nothing to be ashamed of).
• sleeper

  

  Little Danny;521359 wrote:Not sure if you have ever been to Oxford, MS but Ole Miss is one of the nicest campuses in the country. It very much looks like Miami (OH) in Oxford, OH with all of its brick buildings and green space. What's more, Ole Miss may have the hottest co-eds east of Arizona State. They are one of the better academic schools in the SEC (albeit they are a far cry from Vanderbilt which is nothing to be ashamed of).

  
  LOL, what?
  
  This whole post is full of crap, do you say the same things about every school?