Time for Ole Miss to send a message
The scene was this: a college play, “The Laramie Project,” at the University of Mississippi, Tuesday night. It’s a play about a town in Wyoming and its reaction to the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard, who was tortured, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence and left to die. This weekend marks the 15th anniversary of his attack.
It’s a play meant to open minds about differences. And now picture this: In the audience Tuesday, allegedly from a group of roughly 20 Ole Miss football players, came heckling, laughing, homophobic slurs.
“Someone learned to hate like that,” Shepard’s mother, Judy, told me Thursday, shortly after hearing what had happened. “We’re still teaching it. Classic case of bullying.
“This is exactly the kind of behavior that goes on and encourages other people to act on it.”
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