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.