KKK Planning Rally to Protest Ole Miss Fight Song Ban
Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones recently removed "From Dixie With Love" as the school's fight song after students refused to stop chanting "The South Will Rise Again" ... despite warnings that continued chanting of said, um, "proud" words would result in a ban. The students refused to cooperate and as a result, Jones yanked the song, stating that the school cannot "appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation."
So, yeah, you won't be seeing/hearing any of that come Saturday when LSU plays in Oxford. You know what you WILL be seeing? The Ku Klux Klan. Sweet Moses I wish I was joking.
Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, confirmed via e-mail the KKK will rally on Ole Miss’ campus in protest of the Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones’ decision to remove “From Dixie with Love” from the Ole Miss band’s song selection.
“We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it’s time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech,” Tate said.
“We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble,” Tate said. “Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.”
Goodness. Now, the easy thing to do would be to curse at the Klan for their refusal to move into the 21st century (although the willingness to at least recognize the internet by using email is at least a step, even if it's not "giving up on racism" I suppose), but really, how can you blame them?
Of course, there's always an optimistic silver lining to this: in the year 2009, no one cares about the Klan (last I heard about them, they were desperately seeking attention by marching down the streets of High Point, NC, which, believe me, is the ultimate act of desperation) and their presence -- which, as Orson put it, darn well better be cartoonishly exuberant -- will likely cause the majority of students to give up on a antiquated tradition that roots itself in Southern pride racism when they see just how far to the right their decision to shout something like this sets them in the public eye.
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Any why does everyone think that Nazisim is tied to Eugenic Policiys? Not every Nazi was blonde, nor were all blood thirsty meglomaniacs, yet all were proud of their strong german heritage as the next! Some would do good to remember that anti sematisim wasn't just a nazi thing! Should we stop waving our communist flags for what happened in the doctors plot? If the Nazi's were to rise again, I feel that anti semistim wouldn't suddenly become common again! Times chage, but history, heritage, and traditio... oh wait. Lol. Slavery is as much a part of the history and heritage of the confederacy as eugenics and anti semitisim were of the Nazi's.
Get a life, you red neck glenn beck oxycotin hillybilly from hell.
And no, slavery is not endemic to the old south. What you are doing is equating "the south" with an ethos which is just as wrong as equating Germany with Nazis.
Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
just as a side note: coach nutt stated specifically that we have not lost one single sports recruit based on our 'racist' chant. trust me, there are just as many african americans in the student section singing along too.
the chant "the south will rise again" has NOTHING to do with any student uprising, racism, or will to start a war. that is completely absurd. it comes from a love of the south. we are all aware that mississippi is the poorest state in the union and is looked down upon by everyone. we chant(ed) "tswra" because we want people from our school to prosper. we want to rise and start a figurative revolution. we want people to give a damn about mississippi and not blow us all off as, i'm sorry, "red neck glenn beck oxycotin hillybilly from hell". and we're offensive?
what lessons have we learned here today? grow up, use common sense, learn some manners that your mother obviously didn't teach you, and don't go sticking your nose in other people's business.
hotty toddy and geaux to hell lsu.