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Members of the Ku Klux Klan dress in full robes for a protest on the steps of Fulton Chapel at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009.(AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Ryan Moore) |
The Ku Klux Klan protested before a University of Mississippi and LSU game today. The focus of the Ku Klux Klan’s protest was a line that is chanted at the end of the University of Mississippi’s fight song: From Dixie with Love. The line that is chanted is, “The South will Rise Again.”
The song From Dixie with Love has its roots in the civil war and has been used as the Ole Miss fight song for many years. At the end of the song, however, many chanters openly shout, “The South will Rise Again.”
The chant has been deemed racist and offensive by the many African American students who attend the University of Mississippi. In fact, the chant has become so troublesome, that University of Mississippi Chancellor, Dan Jones had ordered students to stop chanting. After they continued chanting, he ordered the song From Dixie with Love to cease being played. The Ku Klux Klan came out to rally in lieu of the chant “The South Will Rise Again.”
Chancellor Jones sent an address to the student body of the University of Mississippi. It reads, “We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation. Consequently, I have asked the band not to play ‘From Dixie with Love’ at upcoming athletics events. The absence of this song will send a clear message that the university is neither facilitating nor indirectly condoning the chant.” The order to stop playing the song, From Dixie with Love, was issued on November 17, 2009 to stop playing the song.
As if there were any doubt that the chant was associated with racism, the Ku Klux Klan verified Chancellor Jones’ statements referring to the symbolism associated with the chant. In attendance with the KKK, was the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan grand titan, Shane Tate. Shane Tate had confirmed the KKK’s presence at today’s game in an E-Mail message to the Daily Reveille. It read, “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.”
During the Ku Klux Klan’s rally today, they were seen waving flags, and greeted each other with Nazi style salutes. The Ku Klux Klan was not to have their voices heard without opposition, however. Students immediately held a shouting rally of their own.
Ole Miss students stood in front of Fulton Chapel wearing shirts that read 'Turn your back on Hate' and countered the KKK’s presence with shouts of ‘White Trash’ and other insults. As the Ku Klux Klan protested the student’s right to free speech by shouting the South Will Rise Again, students shouted at the KKK members, “Go to Hell, KKK! Go to Hell!”
Shane Tate had said that he expected up to 100 Ku Klux Klan members to attend the rally, there were approximately twelve Klansmen in attendance. According to Shane Tate, his KKK group is a member of the Southern Alliance of Klans which boasts approximately 7,000 members.
The Klan members were escorted away from the University by police, approximately five hours before the game began.
Warning! The video below contains profanity and hate speech
Here is a video made by one of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan announcing today's protest
Comments
Anyone wearing a KKK robe should be arrested for disturbing the peace and terrorism... this is just plain old terrorism in it's most idiotic form.
One can never underestimate the intelligence of the human race.
Let 'em do this stuff.
Anyone running around with their face covered up when they're trying to express their strongest feelings is a total pu...(you know the rest).
You don't have the support of the common man (and this is the only country where the common man is 'race'-less, which is why it is a great country), that's why you have to hide.
The white man hates you. The black man hates you. The brown man hates you. The yellow man hates you. Whatever b.s. color you want to give a human, that person will hate you.
That's why you wear hoods.
Because you're cowards. Disgraces.
Whoever that dude is in the red polo that's talkin' trash to the KKK - good on you sir! But I don't want to give you extra bonus points just because you're white and standing up against racism, so I gotta point out the pain of the non-white people in the crowd who have to suffer through this.
So I guess the thing that I really am proud of is one good man standing shoulder to shoulder with other good men and women.
I say let them protest, other hate groups or races can protest all they want but some white people do it everyone thinks they should be arrested. The University of Mississippi was founded on the principles of the old south, if the school wants change so much why not change there name from Rebels to something more Politically correct.
I attended this event and I am amazed with your biased reporting. I saw one fat white guy shouting against the klan-people. He was briefly joined by about four or five others in a chant, but he quit when the crowd ignored him. There were some sporadic cat-calls during the 6.5 minute event, but the crowd was mostly spectators and curiosity-seekers. The klan rhetoric was stark but right on-target with the majority of students, as well as the students I talked to (who identify themselves as "Rebels" in the Confederate-tradition, though not necessarily "klan"). The students are expressing themselves loudly and defiantly, in chanting "The South Shall Rise Again," flying Rebel-flags and giving the finger to the ones they refer to as the "N-words." This is obvious to anyone who objectively looks at or writes about what is going on.
jdenos..
So you would be in complete agreement with the statement..anyone joining the Black Panthers should be arrested for disturbing the peace and terrorism....
Oh yeah, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly Beck, there's NO RACISM anymore! Turnabout is fair play, find out who they are and lynch 'em is what I say.
BLACK ATHLETES: Stay away from ole miss! It's still a racist ass town. A whole lotta devils!
In the video, the loudest of the hecklers shouted down the Klan with inflammatory and hateful references to gays.
Go figure!
Those are actors dressed in that ridiculous garb so they can be filmed by the Zionist media for show. These actors are placed on the news as "authentic". It is all a fraud, a farce...a show!!! It is used by the Zionists to make any White person who speaks out against reverse racism seem a member of a group of "crazies". This is how indoctrination of the sheeple is carried out. The media is owned and controlled by Zionists. McCarthy called them communists and the media made McCarthy look like a lunatic because he was exposing their treachery. What McCarthy called communists were Zionists, the political party that controls Israel and the US media. The US media is used to indoctrinate the slaves into fighting Israel's wars and giving billions in aid to Israel. Become informed. Study the attack on the USS Liberty and other acts of treachery by Israel against the US. Do not be fooled by these clowns pretending to be Klu Kluckers. They were hired by the Zionists to pretend to be Klan members
Everyone is created equal. Why can't they see that? They call themselves christians but christians don't start racist hate grous and burn crosses.
Y'all are some dumb people if you believe this crap. They are ACTORS hired by Zionist Jews to parade around in that ridiculous garb so that the footage can be aired on the news. You sheeple would buy feces sandwiches if the Zionists told you they were good for you. Recycled nutrients...good for the enviornment. Stand on the corner and scarf 'em down. Gobble, gobble. Serve'em to your whole family.
Long Live the Klan!!! freedom for White Pride!
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The kkk can shove off for all i care ya your klan is all big and bad (not) i would love to see this legendary race war go down you would have the smart whites with the colors and with all the mexicans here now good luck i think you cape wearin a**holes should watch out before you get removed
jdenos, you are obviously not American... we have something called freedom here.... people dont get arrested here for thier ideas like in your country... and if you are an American, you shouldnt be
how do i join I would love to be in the klan
im gaaaay
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says bitch.
i don't know why kkk waste their time trying to do something against what they call outsider , all the member come from immigrants background looking for the american dream, idiot losers,american does 't have an owner, america was built by immigrant. kkk lets not forget who discovered america
immigrant should stay where they come from
Racism negativity is the barrier enforced because generations ago they(peckerwoods) knew that the minority was composed of men/women who possessed an abundance of natural physical talent and strength. All the dark skin would have been in the papers and the media a long time ago.
I was at the game good game but bad way to remember it i dont support the klan i cant stress that enough but black
ppl yall have more hate then a majority of white ppl we gave the lives of thousands ppl for your freedom and dont you forget it
long live whitey!!!!
LMFAO @ how dumb they look
i agree with tyssssss
How many times can this article say chant... poorly written... go back to grade school.
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