Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones recently banned the school's fight song "From Dixie With Love" for the remainder of forever, because some students, alumni and fans refused to stop chanting "The South will rise again!" at the end of the song. Reaction from many of these people has been mixed.The Ku Klux Klan has weighed in on the decision and their reaction is, well, predictable: they're holding a rally because they don't approve of the lack of
"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," [North Mississippi great titan Shane] Tate said.Look, I'm from the South, I live in the South and I went to a very Southern college. But you know what? Pride can only be used as a cover-up for racist tendencies for so long. And if anyone involved in this whole situation gives a damn about making our country better off -- and not enabling embarrassing Southern stereotypes any further -- they'll do what the school president asked and abandon the whole issue.
[...]"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."
That's not to say that I think that every student/fan/alumnus who chanted "The South will rise again!" is racist. Because I do not. I am sure that there is a lot of legitimate "Southern pride" at Mississippi. I do, however, think that if anyone really cares what people say when they refer to the South (and isn't that the actual definition of "Southern pride"?), then they will throw up their hands, walk away from this tradition, and allow a group of largely irrelevant, bed-sheet-wearing bigots to act as such while trying to draw attention to their quickly dissipating cause.
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They said the kkk was dead.