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freshchris05
10/31/2006, 08:22 PM
Oklahoma State University to change the name of the schools colors from Orange and Black to:




Johnny, Bright Orange and NAACP Black...


The changes were made to celebrate the 55 year anniversary of "The Johnny Bright Incident"







yeah im jk
goingoneight
10/31/2006, 08:32 PM
So, let me get this straight... they hated being associated with the Aggies, so they changed their name to "Oklahoma State University." They hate "Oklahoma University", so we should leave the state???

Maybe they should change their name to Oklahoma Tech and be the orange raiders!?! :confused:
OUHOMER
10/31/2006, 08:40 PM
so everybody knows what the hell your talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bright_Incident
Mixer!
10/31/2006, 08:43 PM
Oklahoma Veterinary School and Mechanical College?
All_Day_28
10/31/2006, 08:51 PM
Damn!! it took them 54 years to apologize?? I'm so glad I'm a sooner and in no way affiliated with a university that classles...
setem
10/31/2006, 10:21 PM
We went over this the other day in College Football Class. It is pretty damn sickening to even think about. Could you imagine what AD would have done the 1st time some broke back tried to punch him in the face? AD would go all suge night on they a$$!

http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/du-jb&CISOPTR=40&DMSCALE=50.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=8&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0
SicEmBaylor
10/31/2006, 10:32 PM
You have a College Football Class?
stoopified
10/31/2006, 10:57 PM
Oklahoma Veterinary School and Mechanical College?Naw man it is the T.Boone Pickens Tractor Driving Academy( TBPTDA for short.).
orangekaje
10/31/2006, 11:22 PM
Ya..lets bring up racist events that happened in the 50's. Totally uncommon. Especially in the state of Oklahoma. Now lets fast forward. Larry Cochell ring a bell?
StoopTroup
10/31/2006, 11:37 PM
Ya..lets bring up racist events that happened in the 50's.
OK.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Johnny_Bright_Incident.jpg
StoopTroup
10/31/2006, 11:38 PM
Larry Cochell ring a bell?

Yes...


He is most notable for leading the Sooners to a national championship in 1994.


I'm pretty sure he didn't assault anyone.
Sooner_Havok
11/1/2006, 12:05 AM
Ya..lets bring up racist events that happened in the 50's. Totally uncommon. Especially in the state of Oklahoma. Now lets fast forward. Larry Cochell ring a bell?


You're right, totally uncommon in Oklahoma in the 50's <cough> Prentice Gautt (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80909)<cough>

:pop:
All_Day_28
11/1/2006, 12:12 AM
You're right, totally uncommon in Oklahoma in the 50's <cough> Prentice Gautt (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80909)<cough>

:pop:
:P
orangekaje
11/1/2006, 01:55 AM
You're right, totally uncommon in Oklahoma in the 50's <cough> Prentice Gautt (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80909)<cough>

:pop:

"When former Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson was pressured against giving Gautt a scholarship, a group of black doctors and pharmacists gave him money to attend the school."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Gautt

Yup. Sounds like they weren't racist or the least bit hesitant about giving the guy a scholarship. :rolleyes:
Sooner_Havok
11/1/2006, 02:24 AM
"When former Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson was pressured against giving Gautt a scholarship, a group of black doctors and pharmacists gave him money to attend the school."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Gautt

Yup. Sounds like they weren't racist or the least bit hesitant about giving the guy a scholarship. :rolleyes:

Well can you blame Bud? Hell, he knew if Gautt was on the field Oklahoma A&M would have assualted the poor guy. But all kidding aside, Gautt did make the team and he did play. Bud could have let the kid join the team and never play him, but he didn't do that did he?

from the same wiki article fool

"Within a year, Gautt had a scholarship and the donated money was given to another black student."

At least at OU he was given the chance to play and wasn't assaulted by a group of thugs. But hey, make excuses for that third rate juco and say everyone was just as bad as LosuR was if it helps you sleep at night.

Oh, By the way, allowing a person to go to school, but not giving him a scholarship because of their color is bad, but wanting, planning, and then doing physical harm to a person because of it is a whole lot worse.
Vaevictis
11/1/2006, 03:00 AM
Ya..lets bring up racist events that happened in the 50's. Totally uncommon. Especially in the state of Oklahoma. Now lets fast forward. Larry Cochell ring a bell?

Racism (and sexism!) were not all that uncommon in Oklahoma (or even OU) back in the day.

I mean hell, have you never heard of the Tulsa race riots?
I know a guy who regularly got the **** kicked out of him growing up in Norman in the '60's because he was half Japanese; even had some death threats.

About the only thing you can say is that compared to other places in the south, our racism was relatively tame. (... or maybe just undocumented. hmph.) And started tapering out a bit earlier.

(meh, or was that sarcasm? My sarcasm detector is wonky.)
RacerX
11/1/2006, 07:31 AM
Oklahoma Veterinary School and Mechanical College?

Robot dogs.
tbl
11/1/2006, 08:37 AM
In all honesty, I'd say Oklahoma has just as bad a history with racism as Alabama. We just didn't have the whole "rebel pride" and "the south will rise again" mentality as well.
poke4christ
11/1/2006, 09:18 AM
Racism was everywhere at that time. OU and OSU were no exceptions. However, you can't label a university with it. Just like you can't label the university of Oklahoma based on the actions of Kelvin Sampson.

Zach
Jason White's Third Knee
11/1/2006, 09:21 AM
"On September 28 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28), 2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005), Oklahoma State University formally apologized to Drake University and to Bright for the incident in a letter from Oklahoma State University President David Schmidly (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Schmidly&action=edit) to Drake President David Maxwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Maxwell_%28academic%29)."


I like how they jumped on this to get it squared away.

Racism is still alive and well and we all stereotype people. The important thing is how you treat people regardless of what catagory they might fall in.
orangekaje
11/1/2006, 09:43 AM
Racism (and sexism!) were not all that uncommon in Oklahoma (or even OU) back in the day.

I mean hell, have you never heard of the Tulsa race riots?
I know a guy who regularly got the **** kicked out of him growing up in Norman in the '60's because he was half Japanese; even had some death threats.

About the only thing you can say is that compared to other places in the south, our racism was relatively tame. (... or maybe just undocumented. hmph.) And started tapering out a bit earlier.

(meh, or was that sarcasm? My sarcasm detector is wonky.)


Yup it was sarcasm, but you explained my point. There weren't many people who weren't racist back in those days, and what university you went to didn't matter.
sooneron
11/1/2006, 01:24 PM
Racism was everywhere at that time. OU and OSU were no exceptions. However, you can't label a university with it. Just like you can't label the university of Oklahoma based on the actions of Kelvin Sampson.

Zach
Uh, wasn't there an incident like two years ago when a bunch of osu guys dressed up in black face and had nooses around their necks or something?

oh yeah...

http://www.tolerance.org/news/feature/okstate/index.html
I_SMELL_FEAR
11/1/2006, 01:43 PM
Man , that would make a sweet t-shirt...

"Terror in Stillwater - The Johnny Bright Incident" with a picture of Yosemite Sam punching Bright. :rolleyes: