Tell Me About Texas a&m

[lemonandaturd 4285]

2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Who is the team leader... my avatar’s son?

Homer Simpson was the most qualified candidate for the job, but he was not hired because of the vast expansive premier aggy energy network.  

[Randolph Duke 4034]

Here is a good laugh:

• "Does Texags not have the ability to delete a users profile/previous posts?
• after 15 plus years of texags posts its difficult to know what i wrote/what i was thinking and how will be judged in the future. When i was being stupid on here during my college days i had nothing to lose, now that im older and have a family/career, the risk/reward isnt the same. It would be nice to do a clean sweep, let the past be in the past.
• is there a reason why texags keeps posts infinitely? Seems like a rolling 2 years would be ideal. " https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3123895

The redneck wants to invoke EU law to have texags delete all of his public stupidity on their site so he can try to hide who he truly is.

Shouldn't he be allowed to invoke the "aggy Sul Ross defense" and claim he was only being "a man of his time"?

 

Edited July 10, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Netanyahu for TCU 12]

Just posted a couple minutes ago

[Focht Up 631]

Max Wright seems like a tried and true aggy to me

[Viper 12111]

30 minutes ago, Netanyahu for TCU said:

Just posted a couple minutes ago

at least he put them on the outside of the windshield. the aggies are learning

[Steel Shank 9430]

3 hours ago, Leanderman said:

Slo'neal will have a great career after football at Enterprise Rent A Car.

Are you saying he's going pro in something other than sports?

[nnm 36499]

3 hours ago, Leanderman said:

Slo'neal will have a great career after football at Enterprise Rent A Car.

Probably not Hertz.  

[HeyMcFly 144]

3 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Yes, washing the cars.

you know how ex Texas Football players who dont go nfl or only have a short career leverage their time here into pharma, gas, real estate sales... this is what does aggy do?

[SHOOTER12 8819]

12 minutes ago, HeyMcFly said:

you know how ex Texas Football players who dont go nfl or only have a short career leverage their time here into pharma, gas, real estate sales... this is what does aggy do?

Lol,whut?

[Randolph Duke 4034]

Sometimes mocking the aggys is simply too easy. They are such feeble minded little rednecks.

The ags are starting to edit the Wiki page for the Jaybird-Woodpecker War to provide an "independent source" for their claims that Sul Ross "protected" the blacks in Ft. Bend County. Their main source is a "working paper" one of John Sharp's "historians" put out on the web to show what a "great guy" the "gallant negro killer" was.

Trust me, there is a lot out there that speaks to how Sul Ross was complicit in the blacks being disenfranchised (the lucky ones. The unlucky ones were murdered).

Here is just a peek at some of the research John Sharp's "historian" can't seem to locate:

[nnm 36499]

C’mon Randy. That passage clearly states at the end that it was from an Austin paper, and thus lying and calculated to undercut the gallant Sully. Stoopid sip. Whoop!

[nnm 36499]

(sorry for the long post.  Can’t do a spoiler on mobile.  And the full article is behind a paywall so I’m reproducing here.)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/You-can-always-feel-it-Concerns-about-15400166.php
 

You can always feel it’: Concerns about racism, lack of inclusiveness at Texas A&M resurface after George Floyd’s death

Brittany Britto July 10, 2020 Updated: July 10, 2020 3:02 p.m.

Joseph Collins was headed to his summer job on Texas A&M’s main campus in early June, taking the walk he does every day, when a car slowed beside him.

A white man, who appeared to be around Collins’ age, stuck his head out of the car window and yelled an expletive and the N-word. Collins, an African American man and a second-generation Aggie, was taken aback.

“I haven’t had any bad experiences (at Texas A&M) until that incident,” said Collins, who reported the incident to university police.

A&M’s flagship at College Station, located in a rural setting about 90 miles north of downtown Houston, has long struggled with a reputation of not always being a welcoming place for African American students. The campusis predominantly white, with Black students comprising only 3 percent of the student body and on the decline. Surveys have ranked its student body as among the most conservative in the country.

Four years after students and alumni took to social media to publicize racist comments, such concerns are coming to the surface again. They were sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an African American man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police, and nationwide protests about police violence toward Black people.

Hundreds of A&M students and generations of alumni have shared their experiences on social media using hashtags such as#RacismAtTAMUFeelsLike and #hateisthehiddencorevalue.

Last month, Infinite Tucker, a student and hurdler at Texas A&M, posted a video in which he said he was peacefully protesting the presence on campus of a statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a Confederate general who went on to serve two terms as Texas governor before becoming president of what would become Texas A&M.

An older white man who Tucker was debating asked the Black athletewhether he was an “Aggie or a Blackie,” he recalled.

“If you find me a Black person that has never experienced this, I can 100 percent guarantee that they’re lying,” said Gerald Daigle, a 2016 A&M graduate who is also African American.
 

The university’s chancellor, John Sharp, said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle that the experiences shared on the hashtags were “heartbreaking” and “unacceptable.”

“Racist behavior should never be tolerated. The law may not allow us to expel students who use ‘free speech’ as an excuse to spew hatred and racism, but we do not have to let racist conduct and actions go unchallenged,” Sharp said. “Racists are not welcome at Texas A&M.” ”

Sharp pledged his support for two initiatives: a race relations task force and a commission to consider the future of statues, monuments and buildings.Sharp also announced last month that the system had launched a $100 million scholarship fund to make its 11 institutions more diverse and “look like Texas.”

Few would argue that the main campus of A&M, founded six years after the end of the Civil War as the state’s first public institution of higher learning, looks like Texas yet.

According to Census estimates for last year, Texas was 41 percent white, 40 percent Latino, 13 percent Black, 5 percent Asian and 1 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native.

For the fall 2019 semester, A&M’s main campus was 55 percent white, 22 percent Hispanic, 8 percent Asian, 3 percent Black, 2 percent multiracial, and less than 1 percent American Indian or unknown. Roughly 8.5 percent were international students.

A&M also has campuses in Galveston, McAllen and the nation of Qatar. And the A&M system as a whole is far more diverse, with Black students, for example, comprising 11 percent.

The university previously acknowledged that A&M needs to narrow disparities between races and ethnicities in retention and graduation rates, and stated in a diversity report several years ago that students had reported harassment and subtle insults.

Triggering memories 

Daigle, who studied industrial engineering on three academic scholarships, vividly remembers trying to adjust to a campus culture in which he was often the only Black person in class and mistaken for an athlete.

One day, in passing, he overheard someone say, “I can’t believe they actually let (plural of N-word) here.”

Daigle said many of memories of A&M are positive, but he said racism is part of the campus experience for many students of color, particularly Blacks.

“It’s still a very good ol’ boy-type school,” Daigle said. “It’s one of those things where you can always feel it.”

Raisha Smith, a 2013 graduate who is also African American, said recent events and the hashtag movement brought back her own painful memories of feeling marginalized on A&M’s campus.

“We bury the racism once we graduate and try to forget it and mask it with the traditions and our love of the university,” Smith said. “But now that we’re in this moment … it brings (it) back, triggering memories.”

University President Michael Young last month announced several steps aimed at improving diversity on campus, including tripling the physical space of its Department of Multicultural Services, recruiting more Black students and those from underrepresented communities, and launching the race relations task year. In the past, Young has encouraged the campus community to report troubling or hateful incidents on a university website.

“It is time for a unified approach on how we address the representation of people who contributed to Texas A&M throughout our history and how we want to shape the expectations and behavior of our community to stand firmly against racism,” Young wrote in a letter.

But some aren’t convinced these moves will lead to changes in the racial climate.

“We’ve been an institution that has been perceived as conservative and not diverse for over 100 years,” Smith said. “When you look at the diversity numbers, has the needle even moved?”

In fact, Black enrollment since 2016 has dropped from 2,261 to 2,042 — roughly a 10 percent decrease.

Smith recalled being excluded from campus study groups and students throwing eggs at photos of President Barack Obama when he came to campus in 2009.

As one of the few Black student leaders, Smith said she witnessed how her group events and dates were disregarded by other organizations — and how many students of color took refuge in the Department of Multicultural Services, one of the few places they felt they could go and truly be themselves.

Off campus in College Station, a city that is only 8 percent Black, Smith recalled being stopped several times by police, having her car searched without cause and being harassed by strangers while walking down the street. On Thursday, the Texas A&M System announced efforts to analyze racial profiling data from police stops statewide.

To Black historian and educator Maco L. Faniel, a 2002 graduate who has worked to diversify the campus, A&M’s recent initiatives feel very “wash, rinse and repeat” and don’t get at the heart of institutional racism there. Despite the university’s efforts, hashtags venting frustrations about racism on campus crop up year after year, and interest in white supremacist ideologies exists.

Alt-right activist Richard Spencer spoke on campus in 2016; he was invited again in 2017 but the event was canceled after a white supremacist rally he helped organized in Charlottesville, Virginia led to violent clashes that left dozens injured and one dead.

“Black students and other students of color will tell you this is a great institution, but built into this system and institution is a history of racism that the institution refuses to reckon with,” said Faniel, 39.

Faniel has urged the university to come to terms with its racist history and better honor the contributions of Matthew Gaines, a former slave who helped to found A&M as a Black state senator during Reconstruction. His online petition has 463 signatures.

 

[Randolph Duke 4034]

Want to know what election day 1886 (when Ross was elected Governor) was like in Texas? Want to read some about how Ross was elected Governor?

The "state authorities" referred to regarding attempts at redress would have been none other than Gen. L.S. Ross, CSA (ret)

And remember, the aggys claim Ross was "the Black man's best friend."

Edited July 10, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Steel Shank 9430]

24 minutes ago, nnm said:

(sorry for the long post.  Can’t do a spoiler on mobile.  And the full article is behind a paywall so I’m reproducing here.)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/You-can-always-feel-it-Concerns-about-15400166.php
 

You can always feel it’: Concerns about racism, lack of inclusiveness at Texas A&M resurface after George Floyd’s death

Brittany Britto July 10, 2020 Updated: July 10, 2020 3:02 p.m.

Joseph Collins was headed to his summer job on Texas A&M’s main campus in early June, taking the walk he does every day, when a car slowed beside him.

A white man, who appeared to be around Collins’ age, stuck his head out of the car window and yelled an expletive and the N-word. Collins, an African American man and a second-generation Aggie, was taken aback.

“I haven’t had any bad experiences (at Texas A&M) until that incident,” said Collins, who reported the incident to university police.

A&M’s flagship at College Station, located in a rural setting about 90 miles north of downtown Houston, has long struggled with a reputation of not always being a welcoming place for African American students. The campusis predominantly white, with Black students comprising only 3 percent of the student body and on the decline. Surveys have ranked its student body as among the most conservative in the country.

Four years after students and alumni took to social media to publicize racist comments, such concerns are coming to the surface again. They were sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an African American man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police, and nationwide protests about police violence toward Black people.

Hundreds of A&M students and generations of alumni have shared their experiences on social media using hashtags such as#RacismAtTAMUFeelsLike and #hateisthehiddencorevalue.

Last month, Infinite Tucker, a student and hurdler at Texas A&M, posted a video in which he said he was peacefully protesting the presence on campus of a statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a Confederate general who went on to serve two terms as Texas governor before becoming president of what would become Texas A&M.

An older white man who Tucker was debating asked the Black athletewhether he was an “Aggie or a Blackie,” he recalled.

“If you find me a Black person that has never experienced this, I can 100 percent guarantee that they’re lying,” said Gerald Daigle, a 2016 A&M graduate who is also African American.
 

The university’s chancellor, John Sharp, said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle that the experiences shared on the hashtags were “heartbreaking” and “unacceptable.”

“Racist behavior should never be tolerated. The law may not allow us to expel students who use ‘free speech’ as an excuse to spew hatred and racism, but we do not have to let racist conduct and actions go unchallenged,” Sharp said. “Racists are not welcome at Texas A&M.” ”

Sharp pledged his support for two initiatives: a race relations task force and a commission to consider the future of statues, monuments and buildings.Sharp also announced last month that the system had launched a $100 million scholarship fund to make its 11 institutions more diverse and “look like Texas.”

Few would argue that the main campus of A&M, founded six years after the end of the Civil War as the state’s first public institution of higher learning, looks like Texas yet.

According to Census estimates for last year, Texas was 41 percent white, 40 percent Latino, 13 percent Black, 5 percent Asian and 1 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native.

For the fall 2019 semester, A&M’s main campus was 55 percent white, 22 percent Hispanic, 8 percent Asian, 3 percent Black, 2 percent multiracial, and less than 1 percent American Indian or unknown. Roughly 8.5 percent were international students.

A&M also has campuses in Galveston, McAllen and the nation of Qatar. And the A&M system as a whole is far more diverse, with Black students, for example, comprising 11 percent.

The university previously acknowledged that A&M needs to narrow disparities between races and ethnicities in retention and graduation rates, and stated in a diversity report several years ago that students had reported harassment and subtle insults.

Triggering memories 

Daigle, who studied industrial engineering on three academic scholarships, vividly remembers trying to adjust to a campus culture in which he was often the only Black person in class and mistaken for an athlete.

One day, in passing, he overheard someone say, “I can’t believe they actually let (plural of N-word) here.”

Daigle said many of memories of A&M are positive, but he said racism is part of the campus experience for many students of color, particularly Blacks.

“It’s still a very good ol’ boy-type school,” Daigle said. “It’s one of those things where you can always feel it.”

Raisha Smith, a 2013 graduate who is also African American, said recent events and the hashtag movement brought back her own painful memories of feeling marginalized on A&M’s campus.

“We bury the racism once we graduate and try to forget it and mask it with the traditions and our love of the university,” Smith said. “But now that we’re in this moment … it brings (it) back, triggering memories.”

University President Michael Young last month announced several steps aimed at improving diversity on campus, including tripling the physical space of its Department of Multicultural Services, recruiting more Black students and those from underrepresented communities, and launching the race relations task year. In the past, Young has encouraged the campus community to report troubling or hateful incidents on a university website.

“It is time for a unified approach on how we address the representation of people who contributed to Texas A&M throughout our history and how we want to shape the expectations and behavior of our community to stand firmly against racism,” Young wrote in a letter.

But some aren’t convinced these moves will lead to changes in the racial climate.

“We’ve been an institution that has been perceived as conservative and not diverse for over 100 years,” Smith said. “When you look at the diversity numbers, has the needle even moved?”

In fact, Black enrollment since 2016 has dropped from 2,261 to 2,042 — roughly a 10 percent decrease.

Smith recalled being excluded from campus study groups and students throwing eggs at photos of President Barack Obama when he came to campus in 2009.

As one of the few Black student leaders, Smith said she witnessed how her group events and dates were disregarded by other organizations — and how many students of color took refuge in the Department of Multicultural Services, one of the few places they felt they could go and truly be themselves.

Off campus in College Station, a city that is only 8 percent Black, Smith recalled being stopped several times by police, having her car searched without cause and being harassed by strangers while walking down the street. On Thursday, the Texas A&M System announced efforts to analyze racial profiling data from police stops statewide.

To Black historian and educator Maco L. Faniel, a 2002 graduate who has worked to diversify the campus, A&M’s recent initiatives feel very “wash, rinse and repeat” and don’t get at the heart of institutional racism there. Despite the university’s efforts, hashtags venting frustrations about racism on campus crop up year after year, and interest in white supremacist ideologies exists.

Alt-right activist Richard Spencer spoke on campus in 2016; he was invited again in 2017 but the event was canceled after a white supremacist rally he helped organized in Charlottesville, Virginia led to violent clashes that left dozens injured and one dead.

“Black students and other students of color will tell you this is a great institution, but built into this system and institution is a history of racism that the institution refuses to reckon with,” said Faniel, 39.

Faniel has urged the university to come to terms with its racist history and better honor the contributions of Matthew Gaines, a former slave who helped to found A&M as a Black state senator during Reconstruction. His online petition has 463 signatures.

 

I think Brittany Britto is suffering from systemic hotness.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

And, one more (just because we all know the ags are going to laud how Gov Ross "always protected the Black man").

The Waco paper article speaks of the Blacks who went looking for the missing constable mentioned in the earlier testimony I posted. A (Black) law enforcement officer tries to serve a warrant on a white man. The white man is seen having obtained his rifle, and the (Black) law enforcement officer "mysteriously" disappears.

Then the testimony goes into the terroristic acts Ross did nothing about and mentions how the (Black) man was run out of the state by the white racists. And Ross said he was powerless to do anything about these types of acts.

And, as an aside, testimony of how two Blacks were doused with kerosene and set on fire while they slept, and five others trying to escape the burning house were murdered in cold blood as soon as they got out of the blazing structure. Sul Ross did nothing about the atrocity. And the aggys claim Ross was "the Black man's best friend."

The aggys insist none of these events ever happened. Meanwhile, it is unquestioned Black Texans have lived these types of events, witnessed these types of events, and passed many stories of these types events down through the generations. Quite possibly even to the very "blackies" the aggys insist need to "just get over it."

I'm sure if seven aggys were doused with kerosene as they slept and murdered, the ags wouldn't be insisting the events never happened. But since they were "only Black men" (I'm sure most aggys would use a different word), aggys aren't troubled in the least and perpetuate the "timeless values" of the Governor who looked the other way.

S!E!C! S!E!C!

Fuck aggy.

Edited July 10, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[nnm 36499]

2 hours ago, nnm said:

(sorry for the long post.  Can’t do a spoiler on mobile.  And the full article is behind a paywall so I’m reproducing here.)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/You-can-always-feel-it-Concerns-about-15400166.php
 

You can always feel it’: Concerns about racism, lack of inclusiveness at Texas A&M resurface after George Floyd’s death

Brittany Britto July 10, 2020 Updated: July 10, 2020 3:02 p.m.

Joseph Collins was headed to his summer job on Texas A&M’s main campus in early June, taking the walk he does every day, when a car slowed beside him.

A white man, who appeared to be around Collins’ age, stuck his head out of the car window and yelled an expletive and the N-word. Collins, an African American man and a second-generation Aggie, was taken aback.

“I haven’t had any bad experiences (at Texas A&M) until that incident,” said Collins, who reported the incident to university police.

A&M’s flagship at College Station, located in a rural setting about 90 miles north of downtown Houston, has long struggled with a reputation of not always being a welcoming place for African American students. The campusis predominantly white, with Black students comprising only 3 percent of the student body and on the decline. Surveys have ranked its student body as among the most conservative in the country.

Four years after students and alumni took to social media to publicize racist comments, such concerns are coming to the surface again. They were sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an African American man who died in the custody of Minneapolis police, and nationwide protests about police violence toward Black people.

Hundreds of A&M students and generations of alumni have shared their experiences on social media using hashtags such as#RacismAtTAMUFeelsLike and #hateisthehiddencorevalue.

Last month, Infinite Tucker, a student and hurdler at Texas A&M, posted a video in which he said he was peacefully protesting the presence on campus of a statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a Confederate general who went on to serve two terms as Texas governor before becoming president of what would become Texas A&M.

An older white man who Tucker was debating asked the Black athletewhether he was an “Aggie or a Blackie,” he recalled.

“If you find me a Black person that has never experienced this, I can 100 percent guarantee that they’re lying,” said Gerald Daigle, a 2016 A&M graduate who is also African American.
 

The university’s chancellor, John Sharp, said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle that the experiences shared on the hashtags were “heartbreaking” and “unacceptable.”

“Racist behavior should never be tolerated. The law may not allow us to expel students who use ‘free speech’ as an excuse to spew hatred and racism, but we do not have to let racist conduct and actions go unchallenged,” Sharp said. “Racists are not welcome at Texas A&M.” ”

Sharp pledged his support for two initiatives: a race relations task force and a commission to consider the future of statues, monuments and buildings.Sharp also announced last month that the system had launched a $100 million scholarship fund to make its 11 institutions more diverse and “look like Texas.”

Few would argue that the main campus of A&M, founded six years after the end of the Civil War as the state’s first public institution of higher learning, looks like Texas yet.

According to Census estimates for last year, Texas was 41 percent white, 40 percent Latino, 13 percent Black, 5 percent Asian and 1 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native.

For the fall 2019 semester, A&M’s main campus was 55 percent white, 22 percent Hispanic, 8 percent Asian, 3 percent Black, 2 percent multiracial, and less than 1 percent American Indian or unknown. Roughly 8.5 percent were international students.

A&M also has campuses in Galveston, McAllen and the nation of Qatar. And the A&M system as a whole is far more diverse, with Black students, for example, comprising 11 percent.

The university previously acknowledged that A&M needs to narrow disparities between races and ethnicities in retention and graduation rates, and stated in a diversity report several years ago that students had reported harassment and subtle insults.

Triggering memories 

Daigle, who studied industrial engineering on three academic scholarships, vividly remembers trying to adjust to a campus culture in which he was often the only Black person in class and mistaken for an athlete.

One day, in passing, he overheard someone say, “I can’t believe they actually let (plural of N-word) here.”

Daigle said many of memories of A&M are positive, but he said racism is part of the campus experience for many students of color, particularly Blacks.

“It’s still a very good ol’ boy-type school,” Daigle said. “It’s one of those things where you can always feel it.”

Raisha Smith, a 2013 graduate who is also African American, said recent events and the hashtag movement brought back her own painful memories of feeling marginalized on A&M’s campus.

“We bury the racism once we graduate and try to forget it and mask it with the traditions and our love of the university,” Smith said. “But now that we’re in this moment … it brings (it) back, triggering memories.”

University President Michael Young last month announced several steps aimed at improving diversity on campus, including tripling the physical space of its Department of Multicultural Services, recruiting more Black students and those from underrepresented communities, and launching the race relations task year. In the past, Young has encouraged the campus community to report troubling or hateful incidents on a university website.

“It is time for a unified approach on how we address the representation of people who contributed to Texas A&M throughout our history and how we want to shape the expectations and behavior of our community to stand firmly against racism,” Young wrote in a letter.

But some aren’t convinced these moves will lead to changes in the racial climate.

“We’ve been an institution that has been perceived as conservative and not diverse for over 100 years,” Smith said. “When you look at the diversity numbers, has the needle even moved?”

In fact, Black enrollment since 2016 has dropped from 2,261 to 2,042 — roughly a 10 percent decrease.

Smith recalled being excluded from campus study groups and students throwing eggs at photos of President Barack Obama when he came to campus in 2009.

As one of the few Black student leaders, Smith said she witnessed how her group events and dates were disregarded by other organizations — and how many students of color took refuge in the Department of Multicultural Services, one of the few places they felt they could go and truly be themselves.

Off campus in College Station, a city that is only 8 percent Black, Smith recalled being stopped several times by police, having her car searched without cause and being harassed by strangers while walking down the street. On Thursday, the Texas A&M System announced efforts to analyze racial profiling data from police stops statewide.

To Black historian and educator Maco L. Faniel, a 2002 graduate who has worked to diversify the campus, A&M’s recent initiatives feel very “wash, rinse and repeat” and don’t get at the heart of institutional racism there. Despite the university’s efforts, hashtags venting frustrations about racism on campus crop up year after year, and interest in white supremacist ideologies exists.

Alt-right activist Richard Spencer spoke on campus in 2016; he was invited again in 2017 but the event was canceled after a white supremacist rally he helped organized in Charlottesville, Virginia led to violent clashes that left dozens injured and one dead.

“Black students and other students of color will tell you this is a great institution, but built into this system and institution is a history of racism that the institution refuses to reckon with,” said Faniel, 39.

Faniel has urged the university to come to terms with its racist history and better honor the contributions of Matthew Gaines, a former slave who helped to found A&M as a Black state senator during Reconstruction. His online petition has 463 signatures.

 

Sorry, I left out the bottom third of the article!

(continued)

Beyond statues

Young announced in June that his office and Sharp, the chancellor, had together donated $225,000 toward creating a statue to honor Gaines. Student organizers reached their $350,000 fundraising goal last month, according to the Eagle newspaper.

Faniel also supports removing the Sul Ross statue — a monument that has recently been the subject of protests by many students, including Aggies quarterback Kellen Mond. A Change.org petition calling for the removal drew more than 25,000 signatures last month.

“White Aggies don’t want that to be removed. The removal of that statue threatens their identity as a white person and a white Aggie,” Faniel said.

In a strongly worded June letter to The Battalion, A&M’s student newspaper, Sharp wrote that Ross “had NO ties to white supremacy” and said that neither the flagship nor Prairie View A&M University, the state’s first public historically black college, would exist without Ross. (Prairie View A&M was founded in 1876 as as separate institution for black students).

“Lawrence Sullivan Ross will have his statue at Texas A&M forever, not because of obstinance, but because he deserves the honor with a lifetime of service to ALL TEXANS and ALL AGGIES,” Sharp wrote.

In a June Facebook Live conversation, Sharp said the conversation on campus should be about more than statues.

“We ought to be looking at why people of color feel uncomfortable on campus,” Sharp said. “We ought to be looking at what our faculty and staff look like.”

He continued, “Our goal is to create a comprehensive look, put all the dirty laundry out there…let people see it, and prevent it from happening again and certainly lessening it.”

Erica Davis Rouse, a 1995 alumna and vice president of the university’s Black Former Student Association, said she was encouraged by the actions of A&M leaders.

“There just needs to be further conversation, and I’m so grateful for (Young) taking the bullets,” Rouse said. “Even though some of us feel like it’s a good start, there’s already people who think he’s gone way too far.”
 

Rouse said she experienced uncomfortable moments on A&M’s campus, but her experiences growing up in cities such as Galena Park and Pasadena — where, she said, bias and microaggressions were “par for the course” — made her prepared. She said it was concerning that she was the first Black person that some A&M students had ever met, but it also made her feel that she should stay.

“It was important for my presence to be on campus and for certain conversations that come up, for them to have a potentially different voice,” she said.

As a young Black woman, Rouse created spaces and took part in activities that felt safe. After being the only Black on Texas A&M’s dance team, she founded “Fade to Black,” an African-American dance company on campus. More recently, after seeing a decline in Black student enrollment and the lack of African-American alumni returning to campus, she founded the Aggie Impact Gala, a scholarship initiative that raises money for Black students.

Last year, the inaugural event raised more than $100,000, mostly in small donations, for Black students of any socioeconomic background and drew African American alumni who had not “stepped foot on Texas A&M in decades,” Rouse said.

Smith, the 2013 graduate and former student leader at A&M, tried to connect Black students and alumni through annual Homecoming tailgates and a program that invited prospective minority students for a weekend on campus, led by college students of color. The program was eventually dissolved, Smith said.

While Rouse is hopeful about changes at A&M, Smith — now a graduate student at Rice University — is less optimistic.

“We love our university,” Smith said, but “our university should be pouring into us as much as we are pouring into it.”

brittany.britto@chron.com

[EastTexan 662]

On July 8, 2020 at 4:31 PM, tejas60 said:

agree. espn spent over a month touting how great usc was and now it's the #7 greatest game evar?

also, 1969 Texas vs arky needs more love.

Did not look at espiss list. Fuck em.

[pearlandhorn 3274]

21 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

It was Kindle.

First clip - 1:10:10. Let it run past 1:10:45

Then Kindle - 1:13:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap5SLzX46Y

 

Never been happier to have been proven wrong. Even better.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

33 minutes ago, pearlandhorn said:

Never been happier to have been proven wrong. Even better.

Go forward to 1:32:00. Let it run for a minute.

[Hank Chinaski 6315]

21 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

It was Kindle.

First clip - 1:10:10. Let it run past 1:10:45

Then Kindle - 1:13:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap5SLzX46Y

 

hahaha. I remember watching that live and thinking "McGee really is the quintessential ag." Losing badly, talks shit to Gideon after somebody else hit him, talks shit to Kindle after getting sacked when Kindle didn't even look at him afterward. And you know those imbeciles loved it. 

[jinx 2635]

21 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

It was Kindle.

First clip - 1:10:10. Let it run past 1:10:45

Then Kindle - 1:13:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap5SLzX46Y

 

The comment after the Kindle sack may be the most aggy comment after.  Something along the lines of "he is trying to salvage a senior year, really a just dissapointing career as an aggy after coming to BCS as a highly rated recruit"

[Burt Macklin 19038]

23 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Nah bro. Future Wendy's drive thru worker.

 

23 hours ago, Duval Street said:

He'll still be entering the order when the customer gets to the window.

And then he’ll (slowly) run home before his shift is over.

[happyhookem 224]

18 hours ago, nnm said:

Sharp wrote that Ross “had NO ties to white supremacy” and said that neither the flagship nor Prairie View A&M University, the state’s first public historically black college, would exist without Ross. (Prairie View A&M was founded in 1876 as as separate institution for black students).

 

Sully was all about segregation, not education. Separate but in no way equal. Still aren't. Fuck aggy.

[RomaVicta 29957]

On 7/10/2020 at 7:25 AM, Randolph Duke said:

My aggy quote of the day:

"From this point forward, all claims of racism should be dismissed unless solid proof accompanies the claim." https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3123831/replies/56925455

Those white trash rednecks have been dismissing any and all claims of aggy racism since the day Jefferson Davis was asked to be the school's president.

Lovely sentence there at the bottom, RD.

From the thread:

Quote

[Dr. Not Yet Dr. Ag]

There is a black political scientist who has studied reported hate crimes and found that of the sample he studied, only about 1 In 3 are genuine. So yes, extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence prior to acceptance as factual.

 

Quote

Mort Rainey said:

You should ignore all claims about anything you hear on the internet until you get real proof. How many times do people have to see this type of story before they get this?

[CMAG responds]

Don't know. Let's go ask the Qanon thread.

Not bad, 2%er, not bad.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

22 hours ago, nnm said:

Joseph Collins was headed to his summer job on Texas A&M’s main campus in early June, taking the walk he does every day, when a car slowed beside him.

A white man, who appeared to be around Collins’ age, stuck his head out of the car window and yelled an expletive and the N-word. Collins, an African American man and a second-generation Aggie, was taken aback.

“I haven’t had any bad experiences (at Texas A&M) until that incident,” said Collins, who reported the incident to university police.

hmmm, I wonder whatever became of this 

Edited July 11, 2020 by SwanderedTalent

[Randolph Duke 4034]

John Sharp claims his "historians" haven't been able to find any evidence that Sul Ross was other than "the Black man's best friend." Evidently, John Sharp's "historians" have never studied Texas history. Especially that of the time Sul Ross was Texas Governor (Ross was elected in 1886).

When it came to suppressing Black votes, the 1886 Texas general election (Nov 2) was as corrupt as one could imagine (the 20th Texas Legislature that convened in 1887 was the first all-white Texas legislature since Black Texans were allowed to vote). In fact, that election was so bad, the United States Senate convened hearings starting in early 1887, to find out just how bad it was. The end result was a report that ran almost 850 pages. Evidently, aggy-level "historians" have no knowledge of this.

The report doesn't cover the Jaybird-Woodpecker War (it is referred to in the papers of the time as "The Battle of Richmond.") However, the report does touch on what happened when Blacks in Matagorda County objected to the wholesale violations of their civil rights. It very clearly covers how Sul Ross simply looked the other way as Blacks were being systematically murdered and terrorized. Ross' "I can do nothing as Governor, take it up with the courts" from the time of the Jaybird-Woodpecker War has to be considered with the knowledge Ross knew corrupt County Judges (such as fellow Democrat Judge Kirk of Washington County) were not only complicit in the "outrages" (the report's word, not mine), but often were willing participants and even leaders of death squads, corrupt courts, vote suppression, and many other criminal acts.

So, to put it succinctly, Ross knew his friends, associates, and fellow Democratic state officials were systematically murdering and terrorizing Black Texans. Governor Ross, the one individual with the most power in the state to do something to stop it, intentionally not only didn't help the aggrieved Black Texans, he knowingly sent those seeking his assistance into the hands of the very corrupt judges that Ross would have known were participating in the murders and running very corrupt courts. In no small way because of the because of the systemic corruption and civil rights violations countenanced by Ross while Governor, by 1896 Blacks in Texas ceased to exist in county government or the state legislature.

Other than the perfunctory declaring a reward for the perpetrators (who Ross probably knew personally in many instances. He also knew the rewards would never be paid, because the perpetrators would never been arrested), Ross simply let the atrocities happen. No, there is no sign Ross personally got his hands bloodied by killing Blacks (well, not since the War ended), but here are about 850 pages of U.S. Senate testimony detailing what Ross willingly let happen for years in order to suppress the civil rights (and lives) of Black Texans.

That report is available online, in searchable form (of course, not on any aggy server).

The stuff I posted yesterday was from this document. Note how when Blacks stood up for their rights, it was termed a "riot" or "insurrection," and the Governor called out the (white) militia. But in instances such as when Blacks were being doused with kerosene in their sleep and set on fire by whites, it wasn't even reported in the papers and Sul Ross, "the Black man's best friend" simply did nothing.

This document speaks to the Texas Sul Ross was instrumental in not only creating, but also allowing to exist. This is some of the information John Sharp's "historians" claim can't be found.

As you read this, as yourself "Where in God's name is the Governor while this is going on?"

The document can be found here:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33012/m1/

Edited July 11, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Longboard Horn 40418]

 

[Longboard Horn 40418]

Which one of you surly assholes is Chollie Strong?

 

[markstanco 12586]

 

Those posts are meh. Could be a jussee smollett type of post. Will be forgotten in 2 weeks. Get cameras on campus and that would have some real teeth.

[DaggerHorns 3085]

3 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Which one of you surly assholes is Chollie Strong?

 

Smells like a Figurelli sock.

[Neonmoon 38130]

Chollie was the Aggy nickname for Strong 

[kopp0e 1135]

 

[Jack Wilson 313]

2 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

 

Five percent is within the accepted margin of error.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

Completely worthless fact of the day:

if one wanted to invest enough at the time of the school's most recent national championship in football to finance a complete 4-year education at UT Austin today, that person would have needed to set aside $51,280.

At OU - $18,164

At Texas A&M: $33.72

Sadly, that $33.72 today would probably be about the value of an aggy-level education.

 

 

[MontereyMX 869]

4 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

Completely worthless fact of the day:

if one wanted to invest enough at the time of the school's most recent national championship in football to finance a complete 4-year education at UT Austin today, that person would have needed to set aside $51,280.

At OU - $18,164

At Texas A&M: $33.72

Sadly, that $33.72 today would probably be about the value of an aggy-level education.

 

 

This is smart people talk.  Can you dumb it down so the aggy can comprehend? Please?!?!

[Guest Lobo]

17 hours ago, kopp0e said:

 

109 members of the team/staff could test positive, and they'd still beat us by two touchdowns.  

[Big Frog II 511]

5 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

Completely worthless fact of the day:

if one wanted to invest enough at the time of the school's most recent national championship in football to finance a complete 4-year education at UT Austin today, that person would have needed to set aside $51,280.

At OU - $18,164

At Texas A&M: $33.72

Sadly, that $33.72 today would probably be about the value of an aggy-level education.

 

 

A value of $33.72?  That much?

[nnm 36499]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

109 members of the team/staff could test positive, and they'd still beat us by two touchdowns.  

Not anymore. They have Mike Locksley as HC. Maryland football is about to enter a new world of suckage, in which they’ll have trouble beating any local HS team. He destroys football programs. 

[nnm 36499]

Anyone have any updates on today’s celebration/protest of the “gallant negro killer?”

[Armybrat 40861]

1 hour ago, Big Frog II said:

A value of $33.72?  That much?

A case of Mason jars ain’t cheap.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

2 hours ago, nnm said:

Anyone have any updates on today’s celebration/protest of the “gallant negro killer?”

https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/with_replies?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1282422604595372033|twgr^&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexags.com%2Fforums%2F16

https://twitter.com/KBTXRusty?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1282424319742742540|twgr^&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftexags.com%2Fforums%2F16%2Ftopics%2F3124161%2F3

"This is a very rough estimate but I’m putting about 25-30 on the anti-Sully side and about 100-125 on the pro Sully side. 4:24 pm"

 

The old rednecks "guarding the statue" evidently got pushed aside and the protesters have climbed upon the statue. Hilarious.

 

Edited July 12, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[Dewey 3286]

Holy shit at the "maroon lives matter" sign. 

[Scholz 11953]

Shocked gif

[6th Street 6455]

Apparently some old lady grabbed that Aggy football player's dick

https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1282457264339787777?s=20

[EZ$ 2105]

Did their QB sit this one out? 

[ousux 5601]

Apparently some old lady grabbed that Aggy football player's dick
https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1282457264339787777?s=20

What a fuckin shitshow. aggy can no longer hide their aggyness or claim the sips tell fairy tales about them..lol

[NoName 16367]

On 7/11/2020 at 3:57 PM, Longboard Horn said:

Which one of you surly assholes is Chollie Strong?

 

not one of us IIRC, Chollie is what they called him and they are so lazy they haven't even updated their account to show he is at Bama.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

Yesterday's shit show on the aggy campus was about what any of us would expect from the aggys. What is typically aggy is their collective belief that the events definitively settled the issue and that there is no question that "the gallant negro killer" shrine stays.

Your morning aggy laugh:

"Texags contains some of the most educated people in this world." https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3124349/replies/56943254

Still no "facts" from John Sharp concerning how Ross was "the Black man's best friend," even though Sharp insists the facts supporting that claim are plentiful and there are no facts to support the contrary. Plentiful and irrefutable "facts" such as "Ross was the Black man's best friend" and "Texags contains some of the most educated people in this world" shouldn't take long to produce. Where is the information supporting the racial sensitivities of "the gallant negro killer" John Sharp promised to grace us with? Remember that under Ross' governorship, Jim Crow laws were first codified at the state level in Texas. Also, remember that Sul Ross' clearly expressed sentiment while governor, as posted here before, was that as a race, Blacks lacked the intelligence of whites. In political speeches, he openly referred to Native Americans as "savages."

Here is another of aggy "fact":

"Sully did more to advance education for blacks in Texas than any other individual in the state's history." Source: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3124349/replies/56943336

For the record, as governor Ross oversaw the wholesale violation of Black civil rights through state sponsored murder, intimidation, vote fraud and apartheid that resulted in Black elected representation being essentially nonexistent by the time he left office. Source: Testimony on the Alleged Election Outrages in Texas https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33012/m1/

In Texas in 1885, 2,921 Black teachers taught 123,860 students. Ten years later, the number of teachers had decreased by 400 although the number of students increased by 10,860. Black education under Ross's "leadership" declined. It didn't prosper. Whatever the ags claim Ross did to support Black education, it had no long-term beneficial effects that lasted even five years past when Ross left office to take over supervision of A&M and Prairie View. John B Rayner, a prominent Black leader in Texas at the time Ross was in office summed up the Black education system in Texas of the time, saying "The free school system of Texas is a mental blight, a conscience paralyzer, and a soul destroyer."  Source: John B. Rayner--A Grass-Roots Leader; Jack Abramowitz, The Journal of Negro History Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1951), pp. 160-193 (JSTOR)

Because of A&M's status as a branch of The University of Texas, and Prairie View's identical status as a branch of Texas A&M, both A&M and Prairie View are equally entitled to participate in the proceeds of the publicly funded University of Texas endowment (PUF). Texas A&M College Station campus represents itself as "the wealthiest public university in the nation," with a claimed endowment in excess of $13B (over four times that of UT Austin). The endowment of Prairie View is $82 million.

The privately-funded alumni endowment contributions of A&M and Prairie View since 1876 have been, for all intents and purposes, identical (a difference of roughly $400 mil, or 3% of what aggy claims as their endowment). The eleven-figure difference is the publicly funded endowment money (PUF/AUF) allocated to each institution by John Sharp and the A&M "leadership." That distribution is, and has always been, 100% to Texas A&M (with less than 3% Black enrollment) and 0% to Prairie View (with 86% Black enrollment). This allocation of publicly-funded endowment proceeds between the two institutions by A&M "leadership" largely reflects the allocation of all resources between the two institutions by A&M "leadership." This is John Sharp's version of "separate but equal" and demonstrates the institutionalized racism that defines Texas A&M today and has defined Texas A&M since the time the "the gallant negro killer" oversaw both institutions. Remember, as governor and head of A&M and Prairie View, Ross and the one individual with the most power in the state to champion the cause of Black education and to end the virulently racist education being offered on the campus of Texas A&M. This is the true legacy of Lawrence Sullivan Ross.

Consider all the information on Ross' "leadership" I have been able to find. Literally thousands of pages readily available online. But John Sharp's "historians" insist this information doesn't exist.

Below is a snapshot of life in Texas when Ross entered the governor's office, as Jim Crow laws began to become codified in Texas at both the state and local levels. John Sharp's "historians" insist "Sul Ross abhorred mob violence." If that is so, they have to have reams of evidence showing how "the gallant negro killer" moved to end these practices. We're waiting, but not with high expectations.

I know, "wait until next year."

Fuck aggy.

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

Edited July 13, 2020 by Randolph Duke

[SHOOTER12 8819]

11 hours ago, 6th Street said:

Apparently some old lady grabbed that Aggy football player's dick

https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1282457264339787777?s=20

Soooo, aggy wears masks as a chin strap?  WTH?

[Armybrat 40861]

11 hours ago, 6th Street said:

Apparently some old lady grabbed that Aggy football player's dick

https://twitter.com/BrentZwerneman/status/1282457264339787777?s=20

She looked like Listeater.