Ole Miss may drop fight song if fans don't stop chant

AP ^ | 7:26 a.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | AP

[Dacula]

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.

[massgopguy]

Guess what chant will be even louder at Ole Miss’ next home game? With or without the song.

[SoldierDad]

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.

[refermech]

It’s pretty simplistic to call this chant racist. More like a states right chant than anything.

[Julia H.]

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.

[hsmomx3]

Isn’t this Shep’s school? Wonder what he is going to say about it on The Fox Report?????

[wilco200]

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!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

“the South will rise again”

umm, umm, umm
Barack Hussein 0bama

[ejonesie22]

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...

[SC DOC]

ARE YOU READY?

[Izzy Dunne]

It’s 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....

[Phillipian]

It’s only fair since they banned our “heart of dixie” license plates over here in Alabama.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping

[cvq3842]

When will the song “Play that Funky Music, White Boy” and the film “White Men Can’t Jump” be banned?

[MrB]

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.

[Izzy Dunne]

YANKEES SUCK!

Another frustrated BoSox fan, I guess....

[Altura Ct.]

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...

[Non-Sequitur]

Obviously they haven't gotten the news:

South Postpones Rising For Yet Another Year

[bboop]

Big mistake ....

[Genoa]

...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.

[stormer]

[jesseam]

The PC bastards are all over the place crawling out from beneath a wet rock.

[Grunthor]

Does the chancellor believe that stopping the fight song will stop the students from chanting any damned thing they want to?

[rcrngroup]

Is there a YouTube video to hear the song & the chant? I would love to hear it. And I would love for the Ole Miss fans to chant and sing the song even louder than before. Tell the politically correct weenie chancellor & mushy coaching staff & administration to stick it up their collective @$$es.

[Kakaze]

After 9/11 Purdue dropped its cannon, because it was to violent........I spoke with Morgan Burke then, he is still the Athletic director.

One of these days, they will beg for the cannon, not for touch downs but for defense.

[jyoders19]

This chancellor is just asking the board of trustees to fire him. Give him what he wants and bring back the song.

[stormer]

"Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, we gonna rise again," said Sumter, SC, radiator technician Hap Slidell, who describes himself as "Southern by the grace of God." "I don't know exactly when we're gonna do it, but one of these days, we're gonna show them Yankees how it's done."

[jessduntno]

“Jones said the words in the phrase are “harmful” because they’ve been used by integration opponents in the past. For years, the university has worked to rid itself of an Old South image that included the 1962 violent standoff over James Meredith’s admission as the university’s first black student.”

Ashamed of their Ross Barnett (Democrat governor) powered opposition to integration? Why do they always leave that out?

[FrankR]

This would be an easy fix...the fans should just boycott the games...for awhile. The loss of funds would probably go a long way in convincing the powers that be to butt out.

What is it with everyone wanting to control and lord-and-master over everyone else?

Is it going to end up that any white person who speaks at all is a racist? Is part of "reparations" going to be that we must reverse the roles? Well, if that is it, it ain't going to work.

Whatever happened with all that slavery nonsense 400 years ago doesn't have an ice cube's chance in hell of happening again.

I remember back in the 60's when the University of Georgia had to change the name of their band - The Dixie Redcoat Band - to just the "Redcoat Band", dropping "Dixie" from their name and repertiore. Ironically, the song "Dixie" was written by a black man.

When will it end, if ever? Will be be racist if we wear a "cotton" T-shirt? After all, references to "cotton" in the song "Dixie" seems to be the problem.

Actually, it's part of the white guilt trip mantra used to control everyone these days. Well, sorry guys, I was born over 100 years after slavery ended, and had nothing to do with it. All races have had their slaves, and all races have had their Kings...it's part of history if humankind.

We have a government right now trying to enslave us all...reducing self-relient, productive citizens into jobless entitlement mongers. The leg chains are next.

[Scanian]

Yeah, and we don’t care how they did it up North!

That Jones must be a damn Yankee or a wannabe!

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Except for the years from 1861-1865 when the region was under a homegrown dictatorship, the South has not needed any rising other than electing a better quality of politicans. But all the attention given this story is nothing more than the old tactic of giving outsiders a good reason to feel morally superior by piling on the state of Mississippi. For many, particularly those of leftist leanings, the “thou” in “holier than thou” means Mississippi.

[RowdyFFC]

Chant on ‘Ole Miss...

America will do what it takes!

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Dude, do you know what a woodchuck is? Its a redneck who lives up north. Drive through the heart of yankeeland and you will find many woodchucks both urban and rural. This is my brother Darryl, and my other brother Darryl.

[Grunthor]

“Dude, do you know what a woodchuck is? Its a redneck who lives up north. Drive through the heart of yankeeland and you will find many woodchucks both urban and rural. This is my brother Darryl, and my other brother Darryl.”

True, I am Washington State born and raised and God help me, I have a sister-cousin.

[jmaroneps37]

Hint to Chancellor Dan Jones “Racially offensive? Yes 150 years ago but today it means politically rising not racially rising. Get a life schmuck.”

[jmaroneps37]

Hint to Chancellor Dan Jones “Racially offensive? Yes 150 years ago but today it means politically rising not racially rising. Get a life schmuck.”

[Southern Partisan]

Not banned, still there, just hard to see.

[Graybeard58]

Isn’t this Shep’s school? Wonder what he is going to say about it on The Fox Report

Whatever he says will be liberal nonsense. Bet on it.

[joesjane]

I think this is a good thing, let the little kiddies see what it is like for the rulers to exert control over their lives and what they believe to be important. Hopefully they will chant on and tell the administration to go to hell.

[NCC-1701]

Fine. Do it. And while they are at it, there should be no more hip hop or rap crap played over the PA system. If this song is too “racist” to be allowed, then the other form of “racist” music should be banned. Why not ban music all together. Someone with extremely thin skin will find something to be offended by. Just do away with it entirely. That’ll make ‘em happy. Sheeesh, get a life. How is “the South will rise again” racist anyway?

[TC Rider]

By the way... YANKEES SUCK!

By the way, isn't it kind of insensitive to the South for all the New Yorkers to be chanting 'Go Yankees'? My Gawd, the Yankees, burnt Atlanta to the ground? Have they no humanity?

I ask, no demand, that they immediately change the name of the team to something less offensive, like 'Buttercups'.

Yeah, I like that, the NY Buttercups!

[GregB]

Why doesn’t he go to CNN??

[Southern Partisan]

From the article: The move to abolish the chant began in October when the Ole Miss student government association passed a resolution to change the phrase to “to hell with LSU.”

Heh.

[Raider Sam]

Isnt their mascot a Confederate Colonel and arent they called the Rebels? I guess only audible references to the South are bad, but visual is ok?

[oyez]

Those Southerners who had to endure the exploitation and abuse of the Reconstruction Era prayed for a Southern rebirth. It took nearly a hundred years to regain any significance.

“The South shall Rise Again” doesn’t mean Confederate Money has been saved for use once again, but a vow to recover from the stagnant economy that plagued the region for so many years.

Of course there are those who want keep on punishing the South for the past.

On the other hand, Dan Jones needs to find a scapegoat or a diversion from the fact that their promising football season has tanked.

[oyez]

Ole Miss uses a cannon for home games. I guess that goes next.

[NativeNewYorker]

YANKEES SUCK!

POTVIN SUCKS!

[Hans]

If our busybodies don't stop. There will be a replay of history and this time Northern Democrats won't be on top.

[Southern Partisan]

Think Shep went to State.

[The Sons of Liberty]

What is racist about "The South Will Rise Again" ? I miss the good old days when you could hear "Dixie" and people would stand up and cheer.

I suggest they drop the Chancellor instead.