30 for 30

[bigoak]

Really enjoyed it and thought it was well done. I have to admit, even as an MSU Bulldog, that listening to Dixie brings tears to my eyes. Feel bad about the Buck Randle situation and wish we knew more about why he did not want to be a part of it or come to the team reunion. I wish ESPN would have made the show an hour longer and given Wright more time to cover everything.

[tombstone]

I know that Wright did not intentionally show OM in a bad light. Facts are facts. I went to elementary, junior high, and high school with Wright, and he has been an OM fan his whole life.

Yeah, but Wright has been a Democrat his whole life too, and they always have a way of showing how we have oppressed the minority. It is genetic. I am not saying he presented anything untrue. I am just saying that he may struggled deciding which side to present. You know him personally so, I may be way off based. I just know the names and the history. Nice seeing a Clarksdale guy do well. Wish him the best. Just hope he stays home on voting day.

[Bully]

I know that Wright did not intentionally show OM in a bad light. Facts are facts. I went to elementary, junior high, and high school with Wright, and he has been an OM fan his whole life.

Yeah, but Wright has been a Democrat his whole life too, and they always have a way of showing how we have oppressed the minority. It is genetic. I am not saying he presented anything untrue. I am just saying that he may struggled deciding which side to present. You know him personally so, I may be way off based. I just know the names and the history. Nice seeing a Clarksdale guy do well. Wish him the best. Just hope he stays home on voting day.

You are not off base at all. I agree 100%.

[swamprooter]

I was at Ole Miss when the cheerleader refused to carry the flag and that annual was my junior year that showed the Klansman. the one they burned?.Wright just happened to leave out why the Klansman was in the annual.?? Ummhh.. I got to call BS on somebody burning a cross in his yard also. My wife and inlaws have lived in Clarkesdale forever and know half the town, I am going to ask around. Probably start with Luckett!!!!

[mshunter77]

Why was the klansman in the yearbook?

[swamprooter]

I raised an eyebrow on his fact mission when he talks about all the research he poured over at the university of Mississippi and he uses a picture of all American jimmy Lear with vaught . Jimmy played in 1948?? Wright was born in 1976 so were they burning crosses in people's yard in clarksdale in early 80s. I may be wrong .

[tombstone]

I raised an eyebrow on his fact mission when he talks about all the research he poured over at the university of Mississippi and he uses a picture of all American jimmy Lear with vaught . Jimmy played in 1948?? Wright was born in 1976 so were they burning crosses in people's yard in clarksdale in early 80s. I may be wrong .

I may be wrong, but i do seem to remember a cross or two getting burned. Don't know whose yard it was and maybe wrong. I was born in 72 so I would have been 8 or 9. I dang sure did not know who Walter Thompson was then. I only learned who he was when i got old enough to vote and dislike democrats.
Man there were a lot of white people in Clarksdale then. How times have changed. Luckett is still here. (insert puke icon here.)

[Deltamud77]

Wright's dad was a connected democrat. He went to law school with Bill Clinton, I believe, and is the reason Clinton came to Clarksdale back in 1998-99. The cross burning would not surprise me. However, the reports of the existence of the Klan have been grossly exaggerated from what I am told. I am sure there are a few geriatrics running around claiming their are Klansmen, but those days are long, long gone from what my law enforcement buddies tell me.

[Long Cut]

Wright's dad was a good man, just on the opposite side of politics from most of us on this site. Wright's mom is a really sweet lady, she taught at the same school some of us on here attended but taught honors english if I remember correctly. I was not an honors student BTW. It was kind of funny seeing wright in the hat and tie as the last I really remember about him was that he was a big Dead Head and Jerry Garcia Fan.
As an Ole Miss fan it did not help us out at all but hey you can unscramble a scrambled egg and you cant change history. My personal favorite part was when Mr. Woody Dabbs also from Clarksdale, pretty much asked the interviewer what his intention was by bringing this up again.

[tombstone]

Wright's dad was a good man, just on the opposite side of politics from most of us on this site. Wright's mom is a really sweet lady, she taught at the same school some of us on here attended but taught honors english if I remember correctly. I was not an honors student BTW. It was kind of funny seeing wright in the hat and tie as the last I really remember about him was that he was a big Dead Head and Jerry Garcia Fan.
As an Ole Miss fan it did not help us out at all but hey you can unscramble a scrambled egg and you cant change history. My personal favorite part was when Mr. Woody Dabbs also from Clarksdale, pretty much asked the interviewer what his intention was by bringing this up again.

woody dabbs and the whole Dabbs is as fine of a family as you will ever find.

[rebelduckaholic]

^^^^^

Definitely remember Mrs. Dabbs teaching me at Oakhurst. Good people

[hatchdaddy]

My personal favorite part was when Mr. Woody Dabbs also from Clarksdale, pretty much asked the interviewer what his intention was by bringing this up again.

This may be a very far fetched idea but if you look at the timing and the topic (and discussion of many of you regarding politics in this thread) it seems to me this could have been put out in an attempt to help ignite a base of voters for the November 6 election. I personally don't put anything past the media these days to sway voters. Just a thought but if it has any substance to it at all then they're sick sick people.

[Bully]

Wright's dad was a good man, just on the opposite side of politics from most of us on this site. Wright's mom is a really sweet lady, she taught at the same school some of us on here attended but taught honors english if I remember correctly. I was not an honors student BTW. It was kind of funny seeing wright in the hat and tie as the last I really remember about him was that he was a big Dead Head and Jerry Garcia Fan.
As an Ole Miss fan it did not help us out at all but hey you can unscramble a scrambled egg and you cant change history. My personal favorite part was when Mr. Woody Dabbs also from Clarksdale, pretty much asked the interviewer what his intention was by bringing this up again.

Long Cut, she taught me in one class. I just figured you were in there too. Since you know me, you know it was not an honors class!