UPDATE: KKK Rally At Ole Miss Fizzles In Less Than 10 Minutes
From Lsureveille.com:
OXFORD, Miss. — Wearing traditional red, black and white robes and carrying flags representing the infamous hate group, about 10 hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan protested on the Ole Miss campus Saturday.
The protest, held on the steps of Fulton Chapel, fizzled after less than 10 minutes and faced a large counter-protest from students and onlookers.
The Klan traveled to Oxford to protest Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones’ decision to ban the Ole Miss band from playing “From Dixie with Love” because students chanted “the South will rise again” during the melody.
Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said in an e-mail the ban is an attack on free speech and Southern Christian heritage.
Once escorted to the chapel by police, the Klan members were met by a wall of boos from more than 200 spectators who had gathered in front of the chapel to witness the protest.
During most of the brief protest the Klansmen stood silently waving Confederate and Klan flags on the chapel steps while constantly receiving jeers from hostile onlookers.
“Go to hell, KKK,” and “Take off your mask, cowards!” the onlookers chanted.
The Klansmen attempted to shout back at the onlookers, but their only audible yells were “the South will rise again” and “white power” chanted in unison with Nazi-like salutes.
Police in riot gear escorted the Klansmen down the hill by the chapel and out of sight after less than ten minutes of protesting.
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KKK To Hold Rally Before Ole Miss Game, [Updated 11.21.09, 9:41 a.m.]
The Ku Klux Klan will rally at Ole Miss on Saturday before the school’s football game against Louisiana State University. According to the Daily Reveille, an LSU student newspaper, the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is protesting a decision to eliminate the song “From Dixie with Love” from the school’s band lineup.
University of Mississippi chancellor Dan Jones asked the band not to perform the song because fans chanted “the South will rise again” when it was played.
Below, watch a 2006 video of Ole Miss fans chanting the phrase.
Do you live in Oxford? Do you attend or work at the University Of Mississippi? Tell us what’s going on in the comments!
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« Previous 1 2 3I just think it is sad that so many individuals are closed minded aobut dating outside of your race. I could careless who you date or love that person is who has to live with that decision not anyonelse. I know how it is to date outside of my race and feel like the world was disappointed in me a beautiful sista to date a white man. It’s not about the race it’s about how he or she makes the person feel….To my strong black women if you met someone sweet, hardworking, kind cared about you your kids and your family, treated you with respect no other man has ever shown you….would you not date him because of your race???? If the answer is yes….then my sista you need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask do I really want to be happy and respected by a man.
@tastychocolate317….I don’t have anything against black women, but I don’t want to see my options only limited to one race. I like all flavors of life and I will not discriminate if a woman wants step up to the challenge or vise versa for myself. You have to look outside the box and see others as individuals and not only as people. I find your words to be ignorant, but you are entitled to your opinion. I respect that.
As for the KKK thing….Some individuals will always show their true colors, but I admire the onlookers for standing up.
@tastychocolate317…just bcuz a few whitemen made some bad decisions, does NOT mean a black man can not date or marry a woman of another race, and vice versa. People like u and KKK, are wut keeps this world divided. Please remember, we all are descendants of Adam & Eve, meaning we are all related. GOD never intended us to be like this. Say da right things, eventually u will do da right things.
Abd to think you black men actually want to date a white woman.
Right on davettalashley. Right on. If you reading this you KKK sissified mofo go march in Compton or better yet bring your ass to Chicago and TRY to march down by Madison and Hamlin and see what happen to you p***ks.
LETS JUST GET A BIG A** NET AND PUT ALL THE KKK’S IN THERE AND BURN THEM MOFO’S
Next time they march, someone should go up on the roof and pour sticky black tar and big white feathers all over them.
I’d love to see their asses running down the street squawking like the chickens they really are. Why don’t they ever go march in Compton, I wonder?
If they only knew how RIDICULOUS they look…
The KKK is apart of this country’s sad history and the ignorant method-of-thinking will always exists. There should not be any surprise about the KKK, they are in business’, the corporate world, law enforcement, education systems, government, the political system, and other areas that they hide behind. Let them march, rally, demand, kick, and scream about what ever-the real deal is what they say, do, think, etc doesn’t really matter. They will be judged according to their actions against others. The only thing they create is ignorance-why don’t they have a rally in Queens, Harlem, or in one of the Houston wards, if they are so inclined. The KKK’s history of violence has been done after dark, what don’t they (KKK) do they rallies after dark? in public places?
Rally before a football game,but cheer for the black man when he score a touchdown, backward retarded b!tches.
It puzzels me how despite the antecendents of all the courageous black men & women dating back to the 1800s remain an inspiration to just a handful of blackfolks? u would think by now that we african americans would have done away with the immaterials most especially in our quest 4 equality in this land.in life nothing is easy!unless we rise up & be more objective,more educated & less ignorant,& also strive to achieve economic stability & generally grab opportunities available to us (just like the great men & women b4 us) & lastly remind ourselves that NO ONE WILL GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY WE ASK FOR ON A PLATTER OF GOLD! (anyone who truly wants to do better can do better) truth be told!