The most memorable images from last week’s campus protests at the University of Mississippi will come not from the pro-Palestine activists who held a 30-person rally in a barricaded area, but from the much larger opposition they met: jeering white students, bedecked in patriotic clothing, overwhelming in numbers, mocking the protesters for their physical appearance, cheering for Donald Trump, clearly having quite a good time.
In one video, shared proudly by Georgia GOP Rep. Mike Collins (“Ole Miss taking care of business”), a sea of white men yells “lock her up” at a Black student protester. Some of the young men captured in other videos chant “Lizzo” at a Black woman, yelling, “Fuck you, fat-ass, fuck you,…
