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Ole Miss Ditches Confederate Flag

CONTROVERSIAL BANNER NO LONGER FLIES ON REBEL CAMPUS … The University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss) will no longer fly the state flag of Mississippi … Why not? Because it includes a Confederate battle flag in its design. “As Mississippi’s flagship university, we have a deep love and respect for…

CONTROVERSIAL BANNER NO LONGER FLIES ON REBEL CAMPUS …

The University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss) will no longer fly the state flag of Mississippi …

Why not? Because it includes a Confederate battle flag in its design.

“As Mississippi’s flagship university, we have a deep love and respect for our state,” the school’s interim chancellor Morris Stocks said in a statement Monday. “Because the flag remains Mississippi’s official banner, this was a hard decision. I understand the flag represents tradition and honor to some. But to others, the flag means that some members of the Ole Miss family are not welcomed or valued.”

Stocks added that the school “came to the realization years ago that the Confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values, such as civility and respect for others.”

The banner was lowered a week after the school’s student Senate voted by more than a 2-to-1 margin to request that the banner come down.

The flag – which was removed by a detachment of University public safety officers – will be preserved in the school’s archives along with resolutions from students, faculty and staff calling for its removal.

Our view on all this?  Eh …

We’re kind flagged out …

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24 comments

erneba October 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm

Could we send Jenny Horne down to Mississippi to help those folks?

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Rakkasan October 26, 2015 at 5:15 pm

Got a problem with equal rights under the law there Poindexter?

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erneba October 26, 2015 at 5:49 pm

I have no idea to what you are referring.

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New congresswoman October 26, 2015 at 5:57 pm

Nah, we need her here to keep slapping the shit out of the racist good ol boys.

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shifty henry October 26, 2015 at 4:31 pm

BLASPHEMY ..!!

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SCBlues October 26, 2015 at 4:32 pm

Good for them! Good news out of MS for a change!

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Gomer October 26, 2015 at 5:18 pm

They would have imported them from SC, but they couldn’t find Mississippi on a map.

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Colonel Sanders October 26, 2015 at 6:14 pm

10+

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The Colonel October 27, 2015 at 6:59 am

Gomer – we don’t have enough klansmen in South Carolina to fill a phone booth much less stage a protest in Mississippi.

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Jackie Chiles October 27, 2015 at 9:17 am

Explain the bad news you’ve heard from MS recently.

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Centrist View October 26, 2015 at 5:04 pm

Protests at Ole Miss turn to shouting over Confederate flag
Police escorted several KKK members off the campus
http://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/23666006-Protests-at-Ole-Miss-turn-to-shouting-over-Confederate-flag/
“JACKSON, Miss. — An integrated group of at least 200 students and
faculty members rallied Friday at the University of Mississippi in
Oxford, urging the Ole Miss administration to stop flying the state flag
that includes the Confederate battle emblem.

About a dozen Confederate flag supporters showed up at the end of the
rally, and photos show some wore T-shirts with the logo of an
Arkansas-based Ku Klux Klan group, the International Keystone Knights.”

So Mississippi had to import Klansmen from Arkansas?

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jimlewisowb October 26, 2015 at 5:14 pm

Now it is time for some Quid pro quo

Next week the State of Mississippi will cease forwarding any and all State tax dollars to Ole Miss, Ole Miss Staff and Ole Miss Students including scholarship funds, student loans, employee health premiums, employee salaries and pension funding

Wonder how long it will take Ole Miss to miss being a part of Old Mississippi

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Jackie Chiles October 26, 2015 at 5:14 pm

So the taxpayers are funding a school that refuses to fly the state flag? Makes sense.

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Later October 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm

They’ll be changing the state flag before too long, as well. About time.

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The Colonel October 27, 2015 at 6:57 am

Might in fact be time to change the state flag of Mississippi, but if I was a legislator in Mississippi, I’d be floating a bill this morning to cut off all funding to the school until the flag was flying again or the legislature had time to get together to change the flag and the new one was flying…

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Jackie Chiles October 27, 2015 at 9:16 am

Exactly. You don’t take money from a state government then turn around and stomp on the current flag of the state. I’ve got no problem if they try to change the flag, but removing it from the campus while still taking government money seems wrong.

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Terry October 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm

In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom
That transfigures you and me
As he died to make men holy
Let us live to make men free
While God is marching on

Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Our God is marching on

Oh, sorry, just humming the new Old Miss fight song.

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erasmus October 26, 2015 at 5:46 pm

So will the American flag come down next?

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stumpknocker October 26, 2015 at 5:55 pm

once again mississippi has bailed us out again, they are last in the nation on the flag issue

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Rocky Verdad October 26, 2015 at 9:37 pm

Yeah, be have Dylan!!!

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Sovereignty Committee October 26, 2015 at 8:35 pm

Good Lord! Mississippi has grown up, grown sane? It is the End Times!

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Rocky Verdad October 26, 2015 at 9:37 pm

We did it first, that makes us winners.

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Ole Miss October 27, 2015 at 5:49 am

Change your culture too much Ole Miss and watch the interest in you plummet. I mean, other than learning in a proudly and defiantly Southern setting, why would anyone want to attend Ole Miss? There are so many other colleges with better reputations and in better places. Thus, lose your niche if you’d like; however, don’t complain when your beautiful student population decides to go elsewhere to seek its desired “Southerness”.

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Manray9 November 10, 2015 at 11:47 pm

Better late than never!

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