Ole Miss could distance itself from donor over racist post
JACKSON, Miss. — The namesake of the University of Mississippi’s journalism school apologized Thursday for his Facebook that had photos of two black women in short dresses and suggested that the women exemplify problems that cause real estate values to fall.
University officials said they were considering removing Ed Meek’s name from the journalism school. And, one of the women who was put in Meek’s post without her knowledge said the post “reeks of racist ideology as well as misogyny.”
Mahoghany Jordan of Memphis, Tennessee, is studying computer science at the university in Oxford, Mississippi. In an article Thursday on the website of the student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian , Jordan said she dressed up and had fun with friends after a Saturday football game at Ole Miss. She said she received multiple notifications Wednesday that Meek used her photo on Facebook.
Meek led Ole Miss public relations for 37 years starting in 1964.