Previous white lynching victims, the Mizzou Two: Sean D. Fitzgerald and Zachary E. TuckerBy Nicholas Stix
According to First Amendment law, symbolic expression that gives offense to some people is protected by the U.S. Constitution. According to the current practice, however, any symbolic expression by a member of a politically unprotected group that a single member of a politically protected group declares offensive is a felony hate crime. Thus, three white men are in jeopardy of being convicted of a non-crime, and losing their liberty, which could be tantamount to a death sentence.
The case in Mississippi, in which three white students are “suspected” of hanging a noose and a traditional state flag of Georgia on a statue of James Meredith, the first black student to integrate Ole Miss in Oxford (the University of Mississippi) in 1962, is unfortunately reminding me of the campaign against the two University of Missouri/Columbia students, whom I dubbed the Mizzou Two, Sean D. Fitzgerald, 19, and senior Zachary E. Tucker.
However, things have gotten quite a bit worse in the intervening four years. The only positive in this is that so far, the three white man Ole Miss students being targeted are hanging tough, and refusing to speak to the authorities. Hopefully, that will leave time to organize an Internet campaign on their behalf. I’d like to see this case go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(By the way, why is there a statue of James Meredith, in the first place? This is yet another example of the shameless practice of defying every “first black” this or “first black” that which, far from impressing whites, in its outrageous exaggeration of black accomplishment, leads whites to discount all black achievements.)
My VDARE editor James Fulford has more on this story.
Note that in the story below, NBC News' headline defames the victims twice: By presuming that they are guilty, and asserting that they "vandalized" the statue, which in fact was not vandalized by anyone. Note, finally, the black coed in the picture at the bottom of the page, holding the sign saying, "This is our university." She means that in the black sense.
Students Who Vandalized James Meredith Statue Refuse Questioning
NBC NewsThree white male students refused to be questioned by University of Mississippi officials about racist vandalism on a statue of James Meredith, the first African-American student to attend the school, university police said Friday.
On Monday, the University of Mississippi’s Alumni Association offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two men who were heard shouting racial slurs while they draped the commemorative statue with a noose and an old Georgia state flag, according to the University Police Department.
University Chief of Police Calvin Sellers said the department had gathered enough evidence by Wednesday to bring charges against two 19-year-old male students from Georgia. A third student from Georgia was “prominent in the investigation,” Sellers said, according to a statement.
The university police set up a meeting with the students on Thursday, but the three did not attend and then sought out lawyers, Sellers said. The lawyers will not allow police to question their clients without an arrest warrant, Sellers added.
University of Mississippi Chief of Staff and General Counsel Lee Tyner said that state and federal assistance would help the school to pursue charges “to the full extent of the law,” and the process can proceed without the students’ cooperation.
James Meredith, now 80, fought to gain his acceptance to the University of Mississippi, and even after he was admitted to the newly -desegregated school, needed protection from Deputy Marshals for a year, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. He graduated in 1963. [N.S.: How could Meredith have graduated in 1963, if the only entered the school in 1962?]
The statue is engraved with the words, “Courage, Knowledge, Opportunity, and Perseverance."
— Elisha Fieldstadt
First published February 21st 2014, 5:24 p.m.
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