Posted on 03/07/2019 12:40:58 PM PST by C19fan
University of Mississippi student government groups are calling for a Confederate soldier monument to be moved from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus to a Confederate cemetery in a secluded area behind a coliseum.
All 47 members of the Associated Student Body Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of a resolution asking administrators to move the statue, which has stood since 1906 in a park-like setting near the university's main administrative building.
The Confederate soldier statue was a rallying point in Oxford in 1962 for people who rioted to oppose court-ordered integration of the university.
The Graduate Student Council Senate adopted a similar resolution on Monday.
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The move is just temporary, it will be destroyed.
“The night they drove old Dixie down...” sad, just sad.
It’s all about tearing down Western Civilization, Confederate Statues are merely the ‘low-hanging fruit.’
I don't know where you get the ‘yankee hatred’ bit although there is plenty of reason for it anywhere the Union army went in the deep South and I have family memories to support this. In passing these statues north and South were normally erected by public subscription. Not by use of taxpayer dollars.
Those of this wretched set of young fools that have Confederate ancestry have specifically dishonored their ancestors by this vote. I don't know how yankees see it, but in the South dishonoring one’s ancestors is right up there with dishonoring ones parents or sisters being about the worse thing one can do absent sexual crimes.
If you are a yankee stop butting in to our business, if you are from the South your words and attitudes are disgraceful.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down!
The supine students and faculty at the University of Illinois drove Chief Illiniwek into retirement as a racist representation of the former Illini Indians (the Florida Seminoles are okay for some reason). Now, Illinois is considering a new mascot: “Alma Otter.” This childish play on words references the statue of “Alma Mater” on the Champaign campus.
Give the scumbags a few years and they will begin disinterring the on-campus Confederate Dead and destroying the Confederate cemetery. Afterward, they will be the leaders of the Government that takes land/property from Confederate descendants (i.e. see South Africa). What a Brave New World we have waiting in our future.
“...I don’t know how yankees see it, but in the South dishonoring one’s ancestors is right up there with dishonoring ones parents or sisters being about the worse thing one can do absent sexual crimes...”
It is just like that old joke, “Why are Chinese and Southerners so much alike? ... The both eat lots of rice and both worship their ancestors.”
23,000+ students at Ole Miss. 47 student politicians vote unanimously. I don’t see that as “Ole Miss students vote unanimously to remove Confederate statue.”
That’s South Carolina the joke is told about. People from SC or Va regardless of race or class always seem to start comparing family histories at some point in the conversation.
What will replace “Rebels”? “Scalawags”?
I agree. Having grown up in the south, those symbols weren’t racist to us.
the Ole Miss Regretters
Firing on Fort Sumter and taking over a few dozen federal offices in the south.
At least they didn’t tear it down. They had their elected bodies request that it be moved. Since a large proportion of the student body is black, I’ll cut them some slack. They did it the right way.
“I don’t know where you get the ‘yankee hatred’ bit ”
I am a New Yorker who has spent six years in Mississippi, which I love, but believe me or not, it’s there, so my reaction on seeing this statue in the center of (beloved) Ole Miss was laughter
If Lincoln hadn't sent the warships, they would not have fired on the Fort.
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