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Ole Miss may drop fight song if fans don't stop chant
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| 7:26 a.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2009
| AP
Posted on 11/03/2009 7:48:07 AM PST by Dacula
Edited on 11/03/2009 7:49:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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JACKSON, Miss.-- University of Mississippi football fans who refuse to stop chanting "the South will rise again" are on the verge of losing one of their favorite fight songs, the school's chancellor said Monday.
Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones said "From Dixie With Love" will no longer be played at games if fans continue the racially offensive chant.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2proud; 2proud2besouthern; dixie; firstamendment; freespeech; mississippi; southernpride; southernrace; southwillriseagain
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:48:08 AM PST
by
Dacula
To: Dacula
Guess what chant will be even louder at Ole Miss’ next home game? With or without the song.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:49:48 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Dacula
Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones said "From Dixie With Love" will no longer be played at games if fans continue the racially offensive chant. Hey Dan, good luck with that. Let me know how that works out for you when the fans sing the song without the band playing it.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:49:58 AM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
To: Dacula
It’s pretty simplistic to call this chant racist. More like a states right chant than anything.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:50:20 AM PST
by
refermech
To: Dacula
And what, exactly, is keeping the fans from singing and chanting regardless of what the University does?
Come on, Ole Miss, make this a First Amendment win.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:50:26 AM PST
by
Julia H.
(Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are mutually exclusive.)
To: massgopguy
Isn’t this Shep’s school? Wonder what he is going to say about it on The Fox Report?????
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:51:48 AM PST
by
hsmomx3
(HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO..........)
To: massgopguy
I suggest chanting louder while doing the tomahawk chop with one hand and waving the confederate flag with the other.
By the way... YANKEES SUCK!
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:53:28 AM PST
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: Dacula
“the South will rise again”
umm, umm, umm
Barack Hussein 0bama
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:53:35 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Dacula
Moot point, the South is already back given all the Yankees that seem to like it better here than up in the congested cold and dirty North...
To: Dacula
ARE YOU READY?
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:55:26 AM PST
by
SC DOC
To: refermech
Its pretty simplistic to call this chant racist. More like a states right chant than anything. Yeah, but that won't get 'em where they want to go....
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:56:10 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: refermech
It’s only fair since they banned our “heart of dixie” license plates over here in Alabama.
To: bamahead; manc; GOP_Raider; TenthAmendmentChampion; snuffy smiff; slow5poh; EdReform; TheZMan; ...
To: Dacula
When will the song “Play that Funky Music, White Boy” and the film “White Men Can’t Jump” be banned?
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:56:42 AM PST
by
cvq3842
(A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
To: refermech
Collectivists have forever used the charge of racism to denegrate those who are a threat to their power.
“States’ rights” is DEFINITELY a huge threat to their power,
so, “states’ rights” = “racism” is the natural conclusion for them.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:56:55 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: wilco200
YANKEES SUCK! Another frustrated BoSox fan, I guess....
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:57:03 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Dacula
The PC crowd & Marxist can’t stand that people may actually think and decide for themselves. Mind control, it’s a terrible thing to waste.
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton...
To: Dacula
To: Dacula
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:58:32 AM PST
by
bboop
(Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
To: Julia H.
...make this a First Amendment win...
It already is. The Chancellor made a strategic mistake by threatening to not have the song played. Game over. The fans will have their chant and their fight song too.
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posted on
11/03/2009 7:58:45 AM PST
by
Genoa
(Luke 12:2)
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