America. The nation of the offended. It won't be long before we're France.

I would like to point out that these two gentlemen ALSO started out as Chancellors.





I encourage the students at Ole Miss to rise up and put this tool in his place. How about a chant of "Go to H3ll, Chancellor, Go to H311?"

The machine will not be happy until they make it a hate crime to mention the South in a favorble light when talking about the war between the states.

Mississippi should change their whole identity. Thats what they are trying to do anyway.

I promise you when Mississippi founded the school and chose that song and mascot, it wasn't a mistake. They did it on purpose and wanted those words in that song. The same way Georgia wanted a small rebel flag in their state flag.

Can we not have some heritage symbols to remember our history or will political correctness rule our lives down to the point that is is reverse discimination.

I'm just amazed that Ole Miss has a fight song. Why?

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Originally posted by Hedduk:
I'm just amazed that Ole Miss has a fight song. Why?

pep rallies

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Originally posted by homeskillet:
good move IMO. The whole idea of having your school tied to the confederacy in some shape or form, or using phrases, etc... that are easily interpreted as racist have no place in a school IMO.

So you admit to wanting the Alabama fight song changed (or abolished)?:

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"Yea, Alabama!"

Yea, Alabama! Drown 'em Tide!
Every 'Bama man's behind you;
Hit your stride!
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave!
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's a shame!
For 'Bama's pluck and grit
Have writ her name in crimson flame!
Fight on, fight on, fight on, men!
Remember the Rose Bowl we'll win then!
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You're Dixie's football pride, Crimson Tide!

Yes or no?

Apples and Oranges

In that case it is an isolated geographic reference.

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Originally posted by DixieH:

quote:

Originally posted by homeskillet:
good move IMO. The whole idea of having your school tied to the confederacy in some shape or form, or using phrases, etc... that are easily interpreted as racist have no place in a school IMO.

So you admit to wanting the Alabama fight song changed (or abolished)?:

quote:

"Yea, Alabama!"

Yea, Alabama! Drown 'em Tide!
Every 'Bama man's behind you;
Hit your stride!
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave!
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's a shame!
For 'Bama's pluck and grit
Have writ her name in crimson flame!
Fight on, fight on, fight on, men!
Remember the Rose Bowl we'll win then!
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You're Dixie's football pride, Crimson Tide!

Yes or no?

I have a feeling this will be like arguing with the wall, but I fail to see the correlation between referring to a region of America and saying "The South Will Rise Again".

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Originally posted by homeskillet:
I have a feeling this will be like arguing with the wall, but I fail to see the correlation between referring to a region of America and saying "The South Will Rise Again".

Yeah, some kinda of contest with a fire hose.

God Bless America! What other country in the world is as tolerant as the USA of the continual praise and adoration of an violent insurrection?

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Originally posted by crimsontde88:
Ole Miss should just change their identity to avoid this kind of garbage.

They should become the Ole Miss Mistletoe.

BTW, Ole Miss stinks. We beat 'em a while back. Bring on LSU.

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Originally posted by UA94:
Apples and Oranges

In that case it is an isolated geographic reference.

OK...let me get this straight..

You associate the word ('South' in this case) inside the phrase "the South will rise" again as tangibly, racially offensive..

But yet you associate the word ('Dixie' in the other case) inside the phrase "you're Dixie's football pride" as NOT being tangibly, racially offensive because it's more descriptive of a geographic area than the terms commonly associated with geographic areas of the United States (such as West, South, North, Northeast, etc.)..

OK...now that we've established that, then what other descriptive names do you have on your list instead that can be substituted as better adjectives to use to describe these commonly-used geographic descriptions?

For instance, what else would you call the West (besides 'the West', of course)?..

The East?..

The North?..

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Originally posted by Bama2112:

Really, where is you link with a Gallup poll that backs up your statement that blacks find it offensive. 80% of the population couldnt quote the preamble to the Constitution let alone be upset about the south is going to rise again.

Where is your link to a Gallup poll that backs this statement up?

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Originally posted by SandMountain:
I would like to point out that these two gentlemen ALSO started out as Chancellors.





I encourage the students at Ole Miss to rise up and put this tool in his place. How about a chant of "Go to H3ll, Chancellor, Go to H311?"

Technically, I started out as the senior Galactic Senator from the planet Naboo, and was later "voted" on as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.

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Originally posted by UA94:
Apples and Oranges

In that case it is an isolated geographic reference.

Also (from Wikipedia):

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The word preserves the name of a "Mr. Dixy", a 'kind' slave owner on Manhattan Island, where slavery was legal until 1827. His rule was so kindly that "Dixy's Land" became famed far and wide as an elysium abounding in material comforts.

Link: Wikipedia entry for Dixie

Shouldn't the name of Manhattan Island be changed to something else then (since Manhattan Island has an obvious association with slavery itself or the institution of slavery)?