ohioag67 said:
I remember a clip showing a football team member saying to an old Ag, "I'm gonna cut you bro." That, plus the other antics going on with them climbing on Sully to plant their flag and our little professor helping to run the show ended my contributions to any fund that might go to the athletic department. I switched all my donating to the CCA..
Angry Jonathan Zaludek said:
bobbranco said:TX_COWDOC said:
I don't need one for Mond. I couldn't care less what that jackass is doing.
fyi
I looked it up. Instagram.
He's a photography artist.
TexasAg95 said:
That was a dark time at tamu. All the racial stuff that summer and then simultaneously the COVID stuff.
Thankfully we had a strong, common sense leader in Michael Young to see us through that time.
My kid was getting ready to start school and the whole thing was if TAMU was going to be in person or not. Just awful uncertainty daily waiting for the latest word from Young. Thankfully the corps did happen that school year but I remember dropping off for FOW and the band had just been told that they would not get to march at halftime, instead they would be filmed marching and then the replay would be shown at games. Senior band parents just devastated. All the march ins done with masks. Kids being sent home two weeks at a time just for being "exposed".
sorry for the covid rant but seeing those videos just brought all the stupidity back.
HollywoodBQ said:TexasAg95 said:
That was a dark time at tamu. All the racial stuff that summer and then simultaneously the COVID stuff.
Thankfully we had a strong, common sense leader in Michael Young to see us through that time.
My kid was getting ready to start school and the whole thing was if TAMU was going to be in person or not. Just awful uncertainty daily waiting for the latest word from Young. Thankfully the corps did happen that school year but I remember dropping off for FOW and the band had just been told that they would not get to march at halftime, instead they would be filmed marching and then the replay would be shown at games. Senior band parents just devastated. All the march ins done with masks. Kids being sent home two weeks at a time just for being "exposed".
sorry for the covid rant but seeing those videos just brought all the stupidity back.
No dude.
Thank You for reminding us how disgusting that whole episode was. And how six-letter R-word that whole episode was - especially related to school children and anybody under 70 years old.
And all the educators and healthcare people in my life just act conveniently like they don't remember it.
Or worse, when I tell people about how bad it was in Los Angeles during that era, they don't believe me.
I just had a Facebook memory pop up from when I flew LAX to Miami in May 2020 and there were only like 15 flights on American Airlines that day out of LAX.
We need to be reminded about how stupid everybody got and who went along with the ruse.
army01 said:00 said:
Many on his maternal side. Someone who knew Texas history pulled up a lot of information and posted it here.
Why is that relevant? Is the arguement that we should all accept everything our ancestors did?
Burdizzo said:Mega Lops said:
I remember the athletic dept sent some stooge to go collect Tucker from making a further jackass out of himself.
That wasn't a good look for the school but it's largely been forgotten of course.
After things had quieted down somewhat by the end of 2020, I got a call from 12th Man Foundation about renewing my donation. I don't buy season tickets anymore and really only donate a small amount just to keep up priority points. The sweet and clueless girl that called me was given this message from me. My donations help pay for the scholarships those people got and the salaries of the coaches and staff. I thought that event was highly embarrassing, not indicative about how I expect Aggie student athletes to represent our university, and completely mishandled by the athletic department. They will be getting a donation from me for 2020, but I want my message forwarded up to the Athletic Director. Yes, sir.
I have no idea if they cared, but I was pretty pissed off that year. And when I think back on it it still pisses me off. Jimbo was such a spineless little btch
TexAgs91 said:Buck Turgidson said:
I woulda kicked every one of those punks off the team, but Jimbo "didn't do character" by his own admission. Sickens me what we put up with just to field a mediocre football team. I'd rather have a losing record than put up with scumbags like that.
I'm always a supporter of our football team, but when I saw members of our football team threatening former students and the Corps, we had no football team that year. I was so glad to finally be rid of Mond after that.
hunter2012 said:
I thought on the video it was blaggie, I won't correct an eye witness. Either way it was a cringe moment for the old man.
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I know the man personally and he said blaggie, not blackie. He was trying to make the point that we're Aggies, not blaggies or maggies or waggies.
AgBQ-00 said:
They went from wanting a colorblind society to only focusing on skin color when they realized the grift was dying out.
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Well he was one of 21 state senators who voted to accept Morill Act funding which lead to A&M being founded. So it's not zero.
It ain't much above zero, though
No mention here of A&M or the Morrill Act at all. And although the statue looks like his picture here, you will notice there is a question mark in parentheses on the back next to his name. They aren't even sure if this is him, but they based the statue on campus on this photo.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gaines-matthew
Quote:
July 2 is a key date in the history of Texas A&M University.
It was then that the Morrill Act went into effect in 1862, named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill. It allowed each state to sell up to 30,000 acres of land and use the funds to establish colleges, hence the name "land grant" universities.
In Texas, two colleges were established Texas A&M University and Prairie View University, but Texas A&M did not hold its first classes until 1876.
Recent scholars have pointed to the contributions of Matthew Gaines, the first African-American state senator and Baptist minister from Washington County, who was instrumental in the 12th Texas Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 276. It helped create the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (today Texas A&M) under the Land-Grant College Act of 1862, also known as the Morrill Act.
HollywoodBQ said:TexasAg95 said:
That was a dark time at tamu. All the racial stuff that summer and then simultaneously the COVID stuff.
Thankfully we had a strong, common sense leader in Michael Young to see us through that time.
My kid was getting ready to start school and the whole thing was if TAMU was going to be in person or not. Just awful uncertainty daily waiting for the latest word from Young. Thankfully the corps did happen that school year but I remember dropping off for FOW and the band had just been told that they would not get to march at halftime, instead they would be filmed marching and then the replay would be shown at games. Senior band parents just devastated. All the march ins done with masks. Kids being sent home two weeks at a time just for being "exposed".
sorry for the covid rant but seeing those videos just brought all the stupidity back.
No dude.
Thank You for reminding us how disgusting that whole episode was. And how six-letter R-word that whole episode was - especially related to school children and anybody under 70 years old.
And all the educators and healthcare people in my life just act conveniently like they don't remember it.
Or worse, when I tell people about how bad it was in Los Angeles during that era, they don't believe me.
I just had a Facebook memory pop up from when I flew LAX to Miami in May 2020 and there were only like 15 flights on American Airlines that day out of LAX.
We need to be reminded about how stupid everybody got and who went along with the ruse.
sanangelo said:
The irony of all of this anti-Sully protesting was that across Academic Plaza sat the Coke Building, named after Gov. Richard Coke, who as the first Democrat governor elected after the Civil War ushered in Jim Crow laws in Texas. He was also installed into the governor's office with an armed militia after what some Reconstructionist Republicans said was a rigged election. President Grant did nothing to intervene. Hence, we have the Coke Building.
CanyonAg77 said:Quote:Quote:
Well he was one of 21 state senators who voted to accept Morill Act funding which lead to A&M being founded. So it's not zero.
It ain't much above zero, though
No mention here of A&M or the Morrill Act at all. And although the statue looks like his picture here, you will notice there is a question mark in parentheses on the back next to his name. They aren't even sure if this is him, but they based the statue on campus on this photo.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gaines-matthew
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/blog/the-morrill-act-still-has-a-huge-impact-on-the-u-s-and-the-world/Quote:
July 2 is a key date in the history of Texas A&M University.
It was then that the Morrill Act went into effect in 1862, named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill. It allowed each state to sell up to 30,000 acres of land and use the funds to establish colleges, hence the name "land grant" universities.
In Texas, two colleges were established Texas A&M University and Prairie View University, but Texas A&M did not hold its first classes until 1876.
Recent scholars have pointed to the contributions of Matthew Gaines, the first African-American state senator and Baptist minister from Washington County, who was instrumental in the 12th Texas Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 276. It helped create the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (today Texas A&M) under the Land-Grant College Act of 1862, also known as the Morrill Act.
The bolded is interesting to me.
Gaines very well may have been "instrumental", but I find no evidence of that being a fact. I've read some of the available minutes of the 12th Texas Lege. I can find no evidence of a bill presented by Gaines, or a speech made by Gaines in favor of that bill.
About the time of the Sully tantrum, we started reading about Gaines, and his "contribution".
I still don't know which "scholars have pointed to the contributions" of Gaines.
I don't know what the assertions are based on.
I have yet to see a transcript of his advocation of SB 276
We are just expected to take it on faith.
1st Gaines, chapter 2 verse 23, "Verily, brother Matthew did call for the compound, complex, maroon and white, Fighin' Texas Aggie Class of 1876 to be created.
And the people answered, WHOOP!"
Backyard Gator said:
The College Republicans were big proponents of erecting a statue of Matthew Gaines on campus in the '90s.
Are you just offended that we have a statue of a black man on campus?
Backyard Gator said:
The College Republicans were big proponents of erecting a statue of Matthew Gaines on campus in the '90s.
Are you just offended that we have a statue of a black man on campus?
sanangelo said:
The entire Sully saga was handled well by Chancellor John Sharp. He made a speech in Houston and stated firmly that the statue of Sully was not coming down. That was it. And soon the protests were over and Sully still stands today.
Backyard Gator said:
The College Republicans were big proponents of erecting a statue of Matthew Gaines on campus in the '90s.
Are you just offended that we have a statue of a black man on campus?
BusterAg said:sanangelo said:
The entire Sully saga was handled well by Chancellor John Sharp. He made a speech in Houston and stated firmly that the statue of Sully was not coming down. That was it. And soon the protests were over and Sully still stands today.
I agree here, actually.
And, to caveat, I hate Sharp with a passion, but not afraid to give kudos where they are due.
Sharp did exactly what Universities always do in these situations. He formed a committee, gave faculty a chance to bloviate about equity, got a weird report issued, all of which took months, and the ruckus had died down by the time it came out, and nothing happened.
If Sharp was good at anything, it was using an unnecessarily bloated administrative system to his advantage. He did so with precision and skill here.
CanyonAg77 said:Backyard Gator said:
The College Republicans were big proponents of erecting a statue of Matthew Gaines on campus in the '90s.
Are you just offended that we have a statue of a black man on campus?
Are you offended by truth znd academic curiosity?
Do you get brownie points from your felllow social justice keyboard warriors for implyimg that someome is racist, without havimg thr guts to comeout amd make that false accusation?
BusterAg said:Backyard Gator said:
The College Republicans were big proponents of erecting a statue of Matthew Gaines on campus in the '90s.
Are you just offended that we have a statue of a black man on campus?
Why not a statue of Clarence Thomas, instead?