Pro-Confederate group protests ‘Ole Miss’ rebranding efforts, urge secession

[DonViejo]

Confederate sympathizers protested the University of Mississippi’s rebranding efforts to minimize its racist past.

About 35 demonstrators carried Confederate battle flags Saturday morning through parts of Oxford, where university officials have decided to rename some campus streets and cut back on using the “Ole Miss” nickname.

Some say the nickname originated as a term used by slaves to refer to plantation owners’ wives, and university officials plan to limit its use to sports and spirit activities rather than academics. But the protesters say the university should honor its Confederate heritage instead of obscuring it.

“How can you take a Confederate school built by Confederates in a Confederate state and say you’re not Confederate?” said Debbie Sible, who helped organize the protest. “It’s like my dog trying to dress up my cat.”

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[safeinOhio]

1. "university should honor its Confederate heritage"

and fly the white flag of surrender, the only Confederate battle flag that mattered


By the way, I born in the deep south.

[Aristus]

5. Yeah, I'm constantly having to point out that I'm from the South when I comment on these things.

Otherwise, the Confederate apologists (and why do we have them on DU, for Pete's sake?...) scream at me and then start looking for a couch to faint on...

[DetlefK]

2. One of the commenters had a great idea.

Give them the option to secede... but first they would have to return all property of the US government.

[Botany]

3. 3 things

I doubt if any of the protesters went to the U of Mississippi or even
college for that matter.

Confederates were fighting for 2 things; The right to keep people as
slaves and for the destruction of the United States of America.

Ole' Miss comes from "slave talk" where Ole' is a contraction of the
words owners as in, "that is the owners mansion." (just learned that)

[Faux pas]

4. Let them secede

and try to survive without federal help. F 'em.

[get the red out]

6. That's the truth

When various statistics by state are released, we in Kentucky say "thank God for Mississippi".

They will never succeed though, it wouldn't take these Confederates long to figure out that would mean two of their state schools leaving the South Eastern Conference. The minute their tiny brains turned toward football season, that would be a NO!

[Faux pas]

7. Shaking my head and thinking 'sheesh'.

If I get blown away any more, I'll be a dust puff.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Oxford Town - Bob Dylan

The video doesn't work but the audio does. Great song