Jackson Jambalaya

So, in less than a week you have this, a murder, and a recently-tenured prof taunting the IHL by saying, "Yeah, I totally meant it when I called Trump supporters Hitler youth."

I realize even a strong Chancellor can't stop murders, but the overall public impression over the last few years has been that the inmates are running the asylum in Oxford.

I'm frankly surprised Phil hasn't used the constant chaos up there as cover to shift more support away from Ole Miss.

JJ you need to get the facts before you say that these boys shot the sign. Who is to say that the sign had not already been shot up. These boys may have simply been snipe hunting, got tired of walking so much and rested at the sign before hunting some more.

Well boys, say goodbye to whatever future you thought was yours for the taking.

The prof was right. They are Hitler Youth. This is the kind of trash coming out of a lot of the "family values" households.

Kids are idiots. We all are aware of this fact.

However, our society has continuously rewarded bad behavior and this is one more example of how so many parents fail their children.

The first punishment for these dumbasses should be to have their cellphones crushed by a hammer, then a stiff belt put on their behinds.

Where's any evidence that the boys 'shot up the sign'? This sign and this entire area has been the site of vandalism for fifty years or more. I would also like to remind readers that 80% of the so called church burnings in the South over the past 40 years have fallen victim to black activities. Google that yourself. In the meantime, consider the one in Greenville three years ago that was blamed on white Trump supporters but, as it turned out, was the action of a black, disgruntled church member.

Yeah, those boy's families will be forever proud of their years spent studying civil rights at Ole Miss.

BTW, do Mississippi universities actually allow students to have firearms on campus?

This is terrible. Why in the world would you jeopardize your future doing something so stupid. Stupidity has no race, creed or color. The problem I have is, "They don't think what they're doing is a problem".

Hopefully these thugs will be taught some respect in prison.

Never heard nary a word about due process on this site when it comes to an arrest in Jackson...

Can't we all just get along, hell Phil even thanked Bennie on Twitter today.

Own. Worst. Enemy.

5:46 What would we do without you statistical geniuses who can so easily tell us that 80% proves your excuse? You should go to work for state government, or a defense law firm, your statistics could obviously prove useful. And of course we all believe you.

Just a few good ole boys having a little fun. That's what the jury said when they let Till's CONFESSED killers go free. The south will rise again?

"The first punishment for these dumbasses should be to have their cellphones crushed by a hammer, then a stiff belt put on their behinds"

Hey, Paw-Paw, have you noticed anything about parents today? This won't happen.

Ole Miss doing a pretty good job of destroying itself. They need a makeover and an evaluation of their current non athletic recruiting strategy.

Brainless thugs like these broadcast this stuff to impress their buddies and their associates. If they have friends and associates who are impressed with this activity, we should be concerned about the political and social climate these fools represent. College students?

After recent events, evidence of men that clearly have no sense wandering around Oxford at night with guns (and supposedly a semi automatic one at that) is troubling. There's also a reasonable chance they were not completely clear headed based on the photo. What is going on? At least their fraternity suspended them, even if UM hasn't.

Hotty toddy...

Wait, there was a murder in Oxford? I keep checking this site and see no mention of one. Pray tell.

5:46,
Yup,
Just like the Jewish Cemetery and the Synagogue bomb threats. Trump didn't immediately condemn because he had inside knowledge and he got skewered by the media. And they kept the arrests of the Israeli students very quiet later. Remember Mike Pence went and helped clean up the cemetery but it wasn't enough for the lying media.

5:46 and 6:42 Yup. It's that lying media again with their fake facts. Everybody knows that 90% of the facts they present are 100% false and blacks and Jews are responsible for 80% of their own terrorist attacks. These Ole Miss kids are probably just victims of a fake media coverup of their true intention...guarding that sign from black vandals. There's a 90% chance
that this is 100% true.

Kappa Alpha ?

Say it ain't so !

The KA's again ?

Laughing Out Loud.

Folks always talk about Ole Miss being run over by liberals..I haven't heard of liberals doing this kind of stuff.

We really should start using gang laws to bring some measure of accounatibility to these fraternities. There is basically no difference between the two except the demographic of those taking the oath.

The kids in the picture heard their dads say:

“To hell with them n+{¥|{\s”

So the kids were taught that making fun of a skinned alive black kid who did not even cat call a white woman...is acceptable.

Sad.

What’s even more sad?

You know what white people would do to black people if the roles were reversed?

White people know and they are scared to death.

7:31,
They could be down here to start something just like Goodman and Schwerner were back in the 1960s

Picked up by the national press in 3....2.....

Hey dummy @7:31
It is so common for certain super sensitive people to fake hate crimes that a site has been created to track their hate hoaxes and include links to mainstream media.

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org

Modern academia has created a number of excuses for this activity as well.

At least they didn't shoot the sign up.

It was a good day!

7:31 must have his brain fried from smoking dope and watching Jon Oliver because Jussie Smollette wasn't that long ago.

KA’s at Ole Miss had the best Old South parties. Now the term Old South is politically incorrect. I guess dressing up as confederate soldiers and waving a rebel flag puts thoughts in young men’s minds. But naw, the state flag is fine. This is our heritage.

"Reverend" Jesse and "Reverend" Al in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

6:06 - I'm not here to do your research for you, but, this will get you started. Come back and summarize what you find, later.

https://quillette.com/2019/02/22/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think/

Then There's This...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/black-church-burnings-race-hoaxes-michelle-malkin/

Mississippi law is you can have guns on campus. Second Amendment is still in force.

What in the @#$& is wrong with that "university" (wink, wink)? Ole Miss is doing an excellent job attracting high quality students as of late. Students shooting other students and dumping the bodies in the woods, gun toting frat bros chilling beside memorials to a kid who was tortured to death, nooses on civil rights statues... A fine institution you've got there Mississippi. Will only reinforce our HR department policy of red flagging any resume that includes a reference to time spent at Ole Miss- too much potential baggage.

State fans, feeling the beat down that’s going to come this Egg Bowl, have made this bullshit up. Corral is for real. Oxford attracts that talent, even from as far away as California. State meanwhile has a Yankee head coach with a bunch of 3 star players. Read this, State folks. Weep. Now go back to where you belong. HOTTY TODDY!

I don't see what the fuss is all about. The sign is sheet metal. The FBI declined to investigate because there was no crime.

What blacks do to one another on the streets of Jackson and in every city in America is the real tragedy.

Just when you thought Mitchell's days of towering investigative journalism were over he busts three stupid black bear cubs. Mitchell's back. Jerry Mitchell is back!

Y'all raise some outstanding young men down in the Landmass that ranks last in every thing good and first in everything bad.
I can't serve on their jury, pictures proudly posted to the internet don't lie. They are guilty and should be made to stand guard at this sign in shorts day and night for a year.

Yes 8:51 Goodman and Schwerner were here to start something: Freedom to vote.
Troublemakers huh.

The terms ole' Missus' and "rebels" are what drive this behavior, and worse.

"Hold my hotty toddy and watch this."

When "social media" was a new thing, teens and young adults putting photographic evidence of their stupidity, lapse(s) in judgement, outright criminal behavior, etc., before the court of public opinion and not realizing the full implications of doing it was at least understandable to a certain extent. In 2019 however, anyone, even young people, doing so shows an alarming lack of awareness.

Now as to this particular picture, it is true that the picture itself does not prove these idiots shot it up nor does it prove they are racist (real or wannabe) or anything else about their true beliefs on any subject. It does show and serve as strong evidence of their aforementioned lack of awareness on a variety of fronts including subjecting themselves to reasonable accusations of racism _by the entire world_. I am going to guess that they will get an opportunity to learn several valuable life lessons if any of them choose to do so.

@9:34 Dressing up as confederate soldiers and waving a rebel flag indicates that there are NO thoughts in young men's minds. The state flag is a reminder of that.

I watched Dukes of Hazzard for Daisy Duke! not the rebel flag on top of General Lee.....

It is a safe bet that quite a few pictures of that sign have been taken over the years. If it was shot up by someone else, then someone should be able to dig up some photos of that sign that will have the same bullet holes.

Charged with vandalism, malicious mischief, sure. Hate crime, GTFOH. Throwing this hate crime around gives more weight to the fact that just because the metal sign bears the name of an AA civil rights martyr, it should be a hate crime. Yes the kids were stupid for doing it, even more ignorant for posting to social media, but at the end of the day it is just a metal sign. Calling everything a hate crime every time the AA community gets upset is not getting us anywhere.

Side note: I bet they get to the bottom of this a lot quicker than the nooses found around the capital city before the CHS and Mike Espy run off.

It's safe to assume they did not shoot the sign and it doesn't warrant any kind of legal action.

However, the optics of it cannot be debated and it will go viral nationally.

They are attending a university in a state that has a confederate emblem on the state flag, they are familiar with the history of the story and chosen to lean with the killers of Emmett Till by posing with guns in front of the sign, they are members of a fraternity with a dark history of displaying and partaking in racist behavior, so how are people supposed to take this picture? Some kind of cute little joke? No - they took that picture as some kind of condescending "f*ck you" message and should be held accountable accordingly

It's no different than the three members of Sigma Phi Epsilon hung a noose around the statue of James Meredith at Ole Miss back in February of 2014. They were kicked out of the fraternity and the chapter was suspended.

It's bad optics for Mississippi, period. What adds fuel to the fire for me, is that a bulk of these kids are out-of-state students that come in with the mindset that "Confederate" imagery is what Mississippi is really about.

That's why it is so important we change the tone and send a message with a new state flag. So that when these kids from out of state - get to Ole Miss, Mississippi State, or Southern Miss - they know from the get-go, that this is a new Mississippi and racist behavior is a thing of the past and will not be tolerated.

I hunt right near that sign

It gets shot the day after its put up

It stays shot up

These guys could shot the sign also....which is a stupid act....but they were not the first.

I’m gonna put this sign on Tate reeves car and see what he thinks.

OM is their own worst enemy, but they have not figured that fact out.

@7:00 AM
Do you mean to tell me that Goodman and Schwerner weren't student communists? Because they in fact were part of the communist vanguard attempting to start a race war that could be transformed into communist revolution. Communists in the 1960s and 1970s were most certainly terrorists who participated in bombings as wells as bank robberies and hijacked airplanes.

The media made them martyrs and attempts to hide the communist connections of the "movements" of the 1960s. There was more to their deaths than racism and antisemitism. They saw themselves as soldiers and they wrote as much in their journals.

You know who was in their chain of command? None other than Saul Alinsky himself.

We need a national push to increase the voting age to 25, maybe 30.

Bash away at Ole Miss all you want.

I wasn't competitive for admission to my home state's university system. I never finished high school, grew up in a home where both adults learned English as a second language, got in Ole Miss without trouble. Got out with honors. Went to professional school. Two of my kids went there for free (Thank You Mr. Barksdale!) both are professionals. Our third child graduated from an Ivy League school and has done well also but no better than our Ole Miss grads.

God bless Ole Miss and the wonderful free market economy that allows the very refuse of the world to prosper. As for the boys with the picture: who gives a shit? Anybody with time to worry about kids and pranks needs more work to do.

That image won't be erased from Google for decades.....it will be a potent reminder of how little Mississippi has improved for years to come. Their intent was clear as a bell. Folks, they are broadly SMILING, holding guns, and standing in front of a memorial that is a flashpoint of horrific tragedy in the Civil Rights movement. Oxford breeds this attitude on a daily basis, and it is the disease that keeps Mississippi at the bottom......but OM's endowment approaches a billion dollars. Something wrong with that picture? You bet. Not one Mississippi leader is loundly condemning it on either side out of fear.

Yes, there are hoaxes and yes there is " fake news". But the real problem is that too many of us are so intellectually bereft and lazy that they believe such nonsense.

Some of you obviously can't read. This was posted by one of the guys shown in the photo. None of the news stories suggested these guys shot this sign. It was stated the sign has been repeatedly shot and vandalized.

If these guys were just out hunting and were drunk and didn't nothing except decide this would make a great photo, it is not unreasonable to conclude that a college education is wasted on them. Perhaps, they can memorize pages in a text or notes taken in class, but they gain no knowledge from what they can regurgitate in the short term on a test. Words and deeds have meaning and meaning is lost on these yahoos.

And, some of the comments here beg the question , " Do you often take photos at spots where dead bodies were recovered and smile happily in the photo with a weapon?"

Whole thing sucks, man. I went to OM, loved my time there, and met both awesome people and total asswipes. I like to think the good people outweigh the bad, but I'm also a white dude from Mississippi, and don't have much chance to experience discrimination. However, my attitudes toward other people are purely a byproduct of my upbringing. I'm lucky enough to have parents that walk the walk. Not everyone is.

@ July 26, 2019 at 9:20 AM

As for the boys with the picture: who gives a shit? Anybody with time to worry about kids and pranks needs more work to do.

I give a sh*t! By giving them a pass for their actions that means you condone that behavior and co-sign the message they are relaying with that picture.

The death of Emmett Till is a stain on Mississippi's history and NO ONE WAS EVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS DEATH you condescending snarky bastard!

Young Landsharks trying to be macho and impress some honey-dripping sorority girls. This is not new! Being 21, stupid, drunk, and clueless is not new either. Nothing of note here folks so move along.

@9:20 You sound like a second generation immigrant whose family has greatly benefitted from the wealth and generosity of the United States of America. You're welcome.

Of course you wouldn't understand love of your state or nation, and are a simple Socialist who doesn't have time to consider what brought he and his children's well-being into existence. "There are no hyphenated Americans." - Teddy Roosevelt. Either you consider yourself an American....or you're just visiting.

Agreed 9:20, is it stupid? yes, is it newsworthy? No. Guess what people, college kids, especially boys, do stupid shit. I like commas, write about that.

Wouldn't it be nice if people cared as much about people getting shot up on the streets of Jackson as they do some piece of tin out in the boonies?

This reminds me to make sure that any photos taken in the Vicksburg Military Park of family be deleted immediately to avoid publication of our racist intent when visiting. OMG - I just remembered that one of my kids may have been smiling next to a Confederate monument!!!!!!!

It appears that these lads have been suspended from KA. Apparently, they do not face action from Ole Miss as it was not a school-connected event. Again, I will guess they will get numerous chances to learn valuable life lessons if they begin to make wise choices rather than stupid ones.

No crime no threat, no violation of conduct. The end..

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/emmett-till-sign-bullets.html

Seems like in 2018 it was shot up "AGAIN" and replaced. Its a flat sign in the delta. Just about every rural sign in the delta has bullet holes in it or dings from throwing beer bottles at it. Limited recreation. Would shooting at the Lake Charlie Capps sign be considered a hate crime?

Don't worry boys, you can always go work for CNN. They have an editor who celebrated the deaths of victims of Islamic terrorist bombings by referring to the 'Jewish pigs'.

CNN let the guy resign yesterday, years after his egregious behavior and hate spewing continued.

Democrat party: the new home of anti-semitism.

Dean Vernon Wormer: Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Nothing to see here, snowflakes. Go back to your safe spaces and hug your comfort dogs. Maybe a little hot chocolate will help.

It’s just a sign.
It’s just a statue.
It’s just a monument.
It’s just a flag.

Put all of it in the same museum. That way both sides will be pissed. That’s equality.

Thanks for your fine investigative work, 11:15. I had no idea until now that this story was really about Democrats and CNN. All this time, I thought it was about some college students disrespecting, and possibly vandalizing, a monument memorializing one of the worst miscarriages of justice in our Country (which, by the way, resulted in the death of an innocent child). And let’s be real about which political party these kids belong to. If you think it’s the Democratic Party, do the world a favor and take a break from the internet. You, and all the posters on here who think like you do, are a real piece of work.

By the way, I thought the Confederate flag waiving crowd loved history. How would you same guys react if it were a confederate monument that was getting shot up? Would you all of the sudden be a snowflake about it too?

Very interesting how people are trying to defend this. Y'all keep telling on yourselves and I just kept laughing. Willing to mention black culture at every post about Jackson, but something like this happens and not a word said about the culture that is very much alive at Ole Miss. Enjoy your PBR's and the Grove.

Help me understand the logic Republicans. I guess it’s only history and culture if the statue is of a civil war traitor. If it’s a memorial for a black kid who was tortured and murdered without any consequences for the murderers, then we break out the guns and shoot that statue? Am I missing something?

The idiotic comments here just remind me of why I left Mississippi, the state that's last in everything good and first in everything bad. Ole Miss fosters this kind of behavior, as does Kappa Alpha. KA either needs to be shut down nationally or just replace their letters with "Proud Boys."

@9:47 Socialist? Boy did you get that wrong. Hyphenated American? Not this kid. No you must be a good bit smarter than you come across to read those "facts" into my post. I ain't going nowhere. My father became a citizen by volunteering for service during WW I (one). I volunteered in 1960. How about you?

But to give you your due. He did have a cousin who swam ashore in the East River -- bypassed Ellis Island.

Tell you what else oh great nativist. You don't own America. I bet I own more than you. Don't be pissed off just because I actually realized my potential instead of whining about somebody else's success.

Education really is the ability to analyze, i.e., to synthesize knowledge instead of parroting what some other moron has "taught" you.

We're glad you left MS please don't come back.. As I understand it, one kid was from NOLA and the other from Memphis not sure about the others..

What non of y'all understand is that the real Confederates hated America so much that the fled to Brazil and uphold the southern traditions to this day.

They are known as Confederados and along with Japanese Brazialians are one of the smallest and most homogeneous ethnic groups in Brazil. Look it up it is amazing.

What you see in Mississippi today is just a bunch of carpetbaggers descendants posing and southerners.

Hey 2:05. Jefferson Davis never went to Brazil and he was never tried for treason either.

And he didn’t take the oath to be reinstated as a US citizen either.

A number of commenters seem to have figured it all out, whatever "it" is. We also seem to have a number of newly-politically-aware would-be wonderkinds, who got the political inside scoop from some obscure Internet crackpot or cable-TV blowhard.

I suspect I could learn a lot more from following around 9:20/1:55 for a few days than I could in a lifetime of political navel-gazing and immigrant bashing.

I feel like this should be become a legitimate protest against the left. Everyone should make pilgrimages to pose with guns in from of the sign in solidarity. Even if you feel the need to wear a balaclava.

Plain Meal Catfish opining that 'it's optics that matter' is as much nonsense as claiming that because a racist hate group adopted a flag is reason enough to tear them all down. Doofus nonsense. But it often prevails rat cheer on this blog.

@1:55 You sound like a limousine liberal.....do you even care what that picture represents symbolically? Your indifference and apathy about it is disturbing no matter what your "success" has been.

Since the civil war there has been the overwhelming desire among persons living in or even visiting Mississippi to remind the rest of the nation that we revel in our ignorance. We love it and we guard it like gold. These young men are merely the latest standard bearers of that proud tradition. The name Ole Miss is practically synonymous with that movement nationwide and has few rivals. We are to intelligence what water is to fire. Long may our flag flap in the wind.

Plain Meal Catfish opining that 'it's optics that matter' is as much nonsense as claiming that because a racist hate group adopted a flag is reason enough to tear them all down. Doofus nonsense. But it often prevails rat cheer on this blog.

Says the person who can't understand why this story has gone viral.

FBI and the DOJ have investigated and cleared the young men.

These dudes are going to be tried in the court of public opinion. The Advocate had identified one of them as being a local graduate of a private school in Baton Rouge.I would be willing to bet that members of his own family will be disowning him in follow up interviews.

@12:33
I dont understand how you people can become so stupid. Is it because of TV? The FBI doesn't clear people. There was no evidence of a crime to pursue investigation. Posing with rifles in front of a bullet riddled sheet metal sign is not a crime anywhere in Mississippi.

@6:03
No they arent.
Do you remember the guy in scrubs who called the woman working in the donut shop an N word?
Do you remember any of the guys charged with child porn last year?
Do you know that the guy who owns Gulf Relay trucking company is convicted child sex offender?

You wouldn't recognize these guys bagging your groceries at Kroger either.

The Gulf Relay guy was caught in an online child sex sting, signed a plea to a lesser crime of cyberstalking, and received a full pardon from Gov Barbour. He never had to register as a sex offender. It's good to be a rich MSGOP donor.

9:15 am: Your bashing of the metered Civil Rights workers is highly offensive to any normal person and proof that we still have plenty of nuts running around this place. Go to hades.

At 10:37...Oh, I understand full well why bullshit stories like this go viral. I also understand why stories about the black church member in Greenville torching his own church and painting Vote Trump on the building DO NOT GO VIRAL. The answer is regional arrogance and selective indignation. If you can't understand those two terms, I can't help you further. Regional arrogance prevails today as it did 160 years ago.

As was said above, every flat, ground-level sign in most of this state (especially the Delta where hunting is prevalent) has at least one bullet hole in it. These boys are simply guilty of pranking, nothing more. Just like all the ghetto boyz who pose with gang symbols, stupid hand signs and all manner of weaponry. And more than a few of THOSE boys are involved in criminal activity. Show me the violent or criminal activity records of the three boys shown at the Till sign.

And, as to Theca Jones, nobody should ever reply to this guy/gal as he makes zero sense, is a troll and a race baiting agitator.

6:36am wrote,

"No they arent.
Do you remember the guy in scrubs who called the woman working in the donut shop an N word?
Do you remember any of the guys charged with child porn last year?
Do you know that the guy who owns Gulf Relay trucking company is convicted child sex offender?

You wouldn't recognize these guys bagging your groceries at Kroger either."

That's not how this works...that not how any of this works...

You are correct insofar as the vast majority of the people these boys encounter will not recognize or remember them from this picture and so likely as not, no interviewer, HR person, etc. will recognize them either. But if and when they are vetted, including a online search of their social media history, their names will pop up in connection with this. Now, if it were pictures of some 70s-80s-90s-style wild college party (just "wild," no one really injured and no extreme racially or sexually offensive conduct) or similar, it likely wouldn't affect much, but being connected to something like this in 2019 will - not "might," WILL - set off alarms for many employers. Will it matter if their intended life course is going to work for a family business or small employer in their home area? Nope. Will it matter is they wish to work for a larger, national company, multi-national corporation, reasonably-visible governmental position, or even need a higher-level security clearance? It very likely will matter, both because of the content itself as well as the appalling lack of common sense it demonstrates.

I submit Brett Kavanaugh as exhibit A, and whatever happened there if anything at all, happened long before "social media" existed. If there had been a single picture of him acting in least bit inappropriately with a female, he would not have been confirmed and likely wouldn't have even made it to a confirmation vote.

College teaches academics, not intellegence.

@12:08
Until privacy laws are passed to forbid snooping into our social media history by everyone except the federal government.

@8:57
Thanks to people like you we can cross the Pearl river into Jackson and catch a glimpse of Hades. Perhaps the river should be renamed Styx.

Intelligence is not taught, 12:23. But you knew that. College indoctrinates and promotes memorization.

They are acting just like parents taught them to make America great again.

They are acting just like parents taught them to make America great again.

Wrong. They aren't dealing with Jackson's rat infestation or defending our border from invaders. They are just posing for a picture.

Yea, let's just start with I didn't vote for Trump but am slowly converting. So do what you want with that. I am horrified to think anyone would disrespect this recognition of a 14 YEAR OLD CHILD who was slaughtered for at the very worst trying to flirt with a white woman - and she now says her testimony was not true. Do you even know what happened to him - WTH? He was tortured and killed. It's not a little thing to go pose in front of this memorial, especially with guns, especially on the anniversary, it's a supreme act of disrespect to the murder of a child in what was a racist society. I am so over the liberal craze at UM but this is not a part of that - it's common decency to not celebrate the murder of a child based on his race. Ugh.

Ain't no liberal "craze" at UM.....just the administration trying to stay relevant nationally while they attempt to hang on to their nickname/mascot references, and of course the "state" flag behind closed doors.

@9:51....."murder of a child in what WAS a racist society?...." Wake up from your slumber fella. You still in Mississippi, and Oxford wants you to know it good and hard....no matter what their press release denies.

we live in a racist society
Let me try to word this in a way that will meet the approval of KF. Statistically speaking, violent crimes are committed in far greater numbers by blacks against whites. I think the fact the white people don't riot due to these disgusting statistics is a testament to how racist we are not. And this social media post is nothing more than a benign protest of the state of modern non-racist society.

1:37PM wrote,

"@12:08
Until privacy laws are passed to forbid snooping into our social media history by everyone except the federal government."

A person cannot have an expectation of privacy when they do something "publicly." If you post something to "social media" as it currently you cannot reasonably have an expectation of privacy. Even if a myriad of changes were made, it would not cover existing pictures/texts/posts insofar as making private what was once public. Plus, most social media platform terms (to which you must agree for access) actually or substantively waive all such claims of privacy. Moreover, access to social media history can be made a condition of employment, legitimate investigation, etc. Moreover still, while it may or may not be a crime to gain access to the social media of others, once that access is obtained (legally or illegally) and the picture/text/post/etc. is reposted to a public forum, there is no effective way to undo it. People do not have any "right" to private free "social media" access so the best course of action is to consider anything posted to social media as "public" and accessible, or at least obtainable by anyone, for all time.

The most disturbing thing about this photo is too many of the comments above.
Some of you believe absolutely ridiculous justifications for past murders. I hope it's just that you can't face that your relatives racists and murderers. One of mine was too but we know he was a hateful human being who was hateful to everyone.
Some of you are obviously racist while claiming not to be ( other white Southerners know the " code" ...usually involves communism and reverence for all things Confederate from those whose families never fought with Lee and likely weren't even here yet). Worse, you hypocritically don't mind our President doing nothing about Communist interference in our elections and schmoozing real Communists. Hell, you don't even know that Russia and North Korea and China are still Communists governments even though they are more economically realistic now. They still have total government control over commerce dummies and you ,too want to give ONE party that same power.
You are a racists when you assume the worst about a race of people because of the color of their skin and don't judge individuals you meet based only on their personal behavior and actions. It is also when you accept behaviors that are clearly disrespectful to an entire race simply because they don't look like you or are culturally different. And, there have always been different cultures and religions in the US and none of them have achieved perfection.

I'm 100% certain that if there was evidence they SHOT the sign rather than just taking pictures with it, they'd be locked up. It's a picture with no context. Maybe they were guarding the sign. Who knows?
I'm with the comment at 920 who said we need more important things to occupy our mind rather than the outrage du jour that this is. You're not alone, friend.

These young men live in a society where standing in front of a vandalized historical marker with guns is acceptable behavior. Just look at the racial overtones being used by the president to attack a congressman because he is rightfully being investigated.

It’s just a sign made of metal.
It’s just a flag made of cloth.
Each mean different things to different groups.
Yet therein lies the similarity.
Hmmmmm.... we have the same feelings about things when it gets down to it.

8:03, if you are going to use the word "statistically", please give the numbers and the source. Otherwise, it means nothing.