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Tell Wilson Sporting Goods: Stop Sponsoring Racist, Anti-Gay Schools
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    7,946 out of 10,000
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    1. MAIS Executive Director (+ 7 others)
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      • MAIS Executive Director (David Derrick)
      • Bookkeeper / Administrative Asst. to Exec. Dir. (Renee Hammarstrom)
      • Associate Director of Activities / Technology (David Drake)
      • MAIS Director of Activities (Les Triplett)
      • Communications Manager, Amer Sports (Maarit Mikkonen)
      • Communications, Russell Brands, LLC (Communications Staff, Russell Brands, LLC (Parent Company of Russell Athletics))
      • Communications, Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance (Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance)
      • Mutual of Omaha Insurance (Newsroom, Mutual of Omaha)
  2. Created By
    Carol Scott
    Washington, DC
About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

Two private Mississippi schools, Calhoun Academy in Calhoun City, Miss., and Carroll Academy in Carrollton, Miss., receive thousands of dollars in funding from the white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens.

The CCC, a hate-spewing, homophobic group that denounces "race mixing," non-Europeans in America, immigrants and gay students, holds barbecues and fundraisers for the schools, which have a virtually all-white student body.

Both of these schools are accredited members of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), which includes dozens of private academies in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Among MAIS's sponsors are Wilson Sporting Goods, Russell Athletic, Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance and Mutual of Omaha.

By allowing the CCC, which has such horrid racist and anti-gay views, to raise huge funds for these schools, the MAIS is only allowing racism and homophobia to manifest itself across the state in private schools. Tell the MAIS not to accredit schools that fund their classes with white supremacist dollars, and tell the sponsors of MAIS to withdraw financial support from schools supported by hate groups. 

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End Your Sponsorship of Racist, Anti-Gay Schools

Greetings,

Two private Mississippi schools, Calhoun Academy in Calhoun City, Miss., and Carroll Academy in Carrollton, Miss., receive thousands of dollars in funding from the white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens, the Southern Poverty Law Center has found.

Both schools are accredited by the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), which includes dozens of private academies in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Among MAIS's sponsors are Wilson Sporting Goods, Russell Athletic, Mississippi Farm Bureau Insurance and Mutual of Omaha.

The CCC, a hate-spewing, homophobic group that denounces "race mixing," non-Europeans in America, immigrants and gay students, holds barbecues and fundraisers for the schools, which have a virtually all-white student body.

By allowing the CCC, which has such horrid racist and anti-gay views, to raise huge funds for these schools, the MAIS is only allowing racism and homophobia to manifest itself across the state in private schools. MAIS should not accredit schools that fund their classes with white supremacist dollars. And now that the sponsors of MAIS, listed prominently on MAIS's website (http://home.msais.org/sponsors.html) know about this situation, they should withdraw financial support from schools supported by hate groups and make a public statement to that effect.

(Original article: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/28/white-supremacist-group-backs-private-academies-in-mississippi/)

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