A Coach’s Headache: Ole Miss And The Klan

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The “Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” will be in Oxford tomorrow to protest the University of Mississippi’s chancellor’s decision to dump the song, “From Dixie With Love.”

As you well know, the chancellor had asked UM students/fans to stop chanting “The South shall rise again” at the end of the song.  They wouldn’t.  So he recently dropped the song which had been played at Ole Miss games for about 20 years.

According to chancellor Dan Jones, the statement “The South shall rise again” supports “those outside our community who would advocate a revival of segregation.”

KKK members, of course, say that the statement means no such thing.  (Even though it was recently painted on the door of a black church that was vandalized in Mississippi.)

They claim that this is a free speech issue.  They also prove that their collective IQ leaves much to be desired.  Below are a couple of the comments from Shane Tate, the man helping to put tomorrow’s rally together:

“Ole Miss should embrace its Southern heritage and culture and reject the liberal Communist revolution that is taking place.”

“We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble.  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.”

Liberals, communists, black and sodomites, huh?

Yep, I’m sure this guy actually WENT to Ole Miss.  Sounds like he’s got him a damn fine edukation indeed.



The fact that this is getting national coverage will no doubt be a hindrance to recruiting at Ole Miss.  Do you think rival coaches won’t remind players and their parents about this type of nonsense going on in Oxford?

Good luck to Houston Nutt and Andy Kennedy in having to explain why the state of Mississippi is still at the forefront of America’s race debate.  Why Mississippi — thanks to Tate and his Ku Klux Klods — is still the one place in the country where folks can go to a football game and actually see a Klan rally break out.

It’s all pathetic.  So here’s hoping Saturday’s KKK show (which might draw 100 people) goes a little something like this:

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