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Simkins was a Confederate colonel during the Civil War and taught at the School of Law from 1899 until he died in 1929, according to records Russell reviewed. At the end of the war, Simkins and his brother Eldred, who later became a member of the UT System Board of Regents, organized the Klan in Florida during Reconstruction
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Texas, the richest and most powerful Big 12 member, remains the lynchpin of the entire league.
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world will still see A&M as the rednecks
quote:Yes, the racist klanhorns have SUCH a wonderful worldwide reputation...
Dr. King Statue Is Defaced Again
By STEVE BARNES (NYT)
Published: August 20, 2004
A statue of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the University of Texas campus in Austin was defaced for the second time in 19 months. A security camera recorded two men spraying silver paint on the bronze statue, which workers quickly cleaned. The 12-foot statue and two campus buildings were splattered with eggs last year on the national holiday honoring Dr. King. Steve Barnes (NYT)
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Wow. Are any of you familiar with the mathematical concept of the asymptote? (Of course you aren't).
It's a system that, when graphed, always approaches zero, but never quite gets there. Much like the level of intelligence displayed by most of the posters on this thread not named Five1Two.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
quote:Well, yes: if by "every single account" you mean that six or seven Aggies (or, as you might say, "more than half a dozen" ) tripped over themselves and each other to force me to refine a point that was never supposed to be anything but illustrative of a larger point (and which was nonetheless entirely clear in context), then yes, you're correct.
Over half a week [sic] after 512 insinuated that being a Confederate Soldier had the same stigma as being a founder of the KKK, that Simkins was not a founder of the KKK, and that Sully carried the same bigotry, hatred and racist aspirations as Simkins he's still at it.
Even though he was proved wrong on every single account while snarking that I must not have learned history while he was incorrect, his elitist attitude won't allow to consider that someone other than him may have been correct and that claims of his tshirt university's bigoted and racist past are true
quote:You are a GIANT MONGOLOID for continuing to ATTEMPT to smear Sul Ross. You've already been destroyed on that count.
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross was the 19th Governor of Texas ... and is best remembered in Texas history as a reformer and an opponent of the Ku Klux Klan
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University of Texas campus in Austin could receive some attention after the revelation that a UT dormitory is named for a Confederate war veteran who, with is brother, founded the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.
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What I did say:
1. Just about every original member of the Klan was a former Confederate.
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I pointed out that, in fact, all Klansmen were former Confederates, so there was, in fact, no difference at all: the one was simply a subset of the other. I think he thought I was saying that EVERY former confederate was a Klansman (not the case).
