12 Klansmen rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game
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OXFORD, Miss. -About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.
The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about 10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionally gesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers that included young children. They were protesting the school's decision to drop a pep song that included "Dixie."
Some fans had been ending the song by chanting, "The South will rise again." Chancellor Dan Jones asked the band to stop playing the song after fans ignored a request to drop the chant.
The Klan said it was protesting over lost Southern symbolism at Ole Miss, which has been rocked by racial strife before.
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2009-11-21 18:51:44

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ICGGEB
4:49PM Nov 21 2009 
I thought they were there to protest the BCS... How dumb of me, (I thought that was something WE ALL could agree on!!!) I guess not???
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Sassysoftballa06
4:06PM Nov 21 2009 
Georgia changed their state flag BTW....
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Sassysoftballa06
4:05PM Nov 21 2009 
So are you saying that it is okay that the KKK march onto campus?
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Sandbag 7
3:55PM Nov 21 2009 
The Republican party has coopted the Klan; they wear suits instead of hoods, but they're still Klansmen.
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Jpearce39
3:14PM Nov 21 2009 
It goes to show that H.L. Mencken was correct when he said "If the entire Deep South was erased from the face of the earth, it would have as much of an effect on the culture of America as if Lapland was eradicated."
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Obiwan2112
8:47PM Nov 11 2009 
To bloody HELL with the Chancellor and his goofy political correctness.
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Buzzwacker m
6:27PM Nov 11 2009 
Hey it's just stupid that any and I Mean ANY Color can spout out or show they're flags or colors .... It's OK ...... But a White Male try to show his Southern Roots and All Hell Breaks Loose .... Welll Let me be the first .... One day soon All Hell is gonna Break out ..... Boy I thought I would never see it in my LifeTime ..... America is Going down the Tubes .....thanks Liberals and T.V.
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Buzzwacker m
6:27PM Nov 11 2009 
Hey it's just stupid that any and I Mean ANY Color can spout out or show they're flags or colors .... It's OK ...... But a White Male try to show his Southern Roots and All Hell Breaks Loose .... Welll Let me be the first .... One day soon All Hell is gonna Break out ..... Boy I thought I would never see it in my LifeTime ..... America is Going down the Tubes .....thanks Liberals and T.V.
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Drei23
2:14PM Nov 11 2009 
Yeah, and the swastika is "just" a symbol of a part of Germany's heritage; the hammer & sickle is "just" a symbol of the USSR & its Gulag; and the Berlin Wall was "just" a symbol of, well, ...; get it?
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DocBeasley
10:55AM Nov 11 2009 
This is an example of PC gone overboard. I am a person of color from a mixed marriage (similar to our President). I believe slavery was wrong. I also believe that just because an extremist group like the KKK co-opts the Confederate flag it should be any more of less a racial statement anymore than the KKK use of the cross should be a racial statement. The confederate flag is the confederate flag - a symbol of a period of our history. Chanting "the South Shall Rise Again" is no more racial than any "gangsta" rap played on thousands of radio stations across the country. Once again the PC thought police trying to carve another "moral" enclave into our society and rights in order to protect the "rights" of some person or group to not be offended while denying the rights and offending the rest of us at our expense. The Texas A&M War Hymn - played multiple times a game and is marched off at each half time - chants "the Eyes of Texas are Upon You" (one of the State Songs)... "Sound's like Hell!"

Kevin Jackson's "The BIG Black Lie" should be good reading by black person who chose not to assume the "black" role society has prepared for him.

Oh – by the way, for you uber PC types, look at the state flags of:

Alabama - contains the St. Andrews cross of the Confederate battle flag – not a coincidence

Arkansas - the Confederate battle flag is reflected (reversed applied). Some creative folding and you have the rebel flag – not a coincidence.

Florida – ditto from Alabama with the state shield superimpossed as camouflage – not a coincidence.

Georga – Almost an exact replica of the original Confederate “Stars and Bars” depicting the 13 stars that eventually appeared on the battle flag with the state shield superimpossed as camoauflage. Don’t let anyone tell you those are for the 13 original colonies – not a coincidence.

Mississippi – A blatant combination of the Confederate battle flag in the union with modified “Bars” – not a coincidence.

Might need to go for bigger fish
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