So, Bobby Seals coming to Ole Miss is a "Media Event" but football fans chanting about the South rising again is racist?

When the north invaded the South in the war for Southern independence, only about 20% of the Southern patriots who took up arms to defend our homeland were slave owners (oh, and they bought their slaves from the north. Not one African slave come to this country under a Confederate flag). Do you really believe that we fought for 4 hellish years so that 20% of the country wouldn't have to pick their own cotton? No. The South was invaded in what was first called a "tariff war." It was all about who would control the government, federal tyranny or state's rights. The so called "great emancipator" himself said that if he could save the union without freeing the slaves, he would NOT free them. Then, after being forced back into the Union at the point of a bloody bayonet, the South had to endure even more oppresion under the heel of the north in what they called "reconstruction." But even after the worst the north could throw at the South to break their backs and their spirits, the South endured and does to this very day. I've got news for Ole Miss and everyone else, like it or not, the South WILL rise again.

Come on people..i think there are issues more important out there in the world than everyone worrying about a song. There are battered women & childern out there that need help & these people worried about a stupid song..if they want to play it, i say hell let them play it!!!!!!!!

I am a proud UM grad and African-American. UM was the only university I wanted to attend. The Chancellor was right to do what he did. I know from first hand how hatred could affect an entire university. I was there through the Rebel Flag and Colonel Rebel. Those things did not represent the entire University and I had a great time at Ole Miss. Everyone is entitled to march, speak and express themselves, I chalk this up to ignoranace. Racisim is alive and well in Mississippi and nothing is going to change that. Have we come along way, yes and we have a long way to go. Let the KKK protest all they want, U of M will survive this and I fully support my University and its Chancellor for standing on his morals and decency. Hotty Totty, Go Rebels, STOMP LSU!!!

Ole Miss apparently did the right thing by getting rid of that song. If the KKK wants it around, it's a dead giveaway that it should have been gone. I think this is a good thing, in that it shows Ole Miss NOT doing what the klan wants them to, which in my opinion can only be positive for the school.

I fault the person or persons who allow things like this to happen. What are they really trying to say by allowing this to take place? You cant pretend that you didnt know that black/white issues is case sensitive in the South. The sad part, some of your best students and athletes are black. You cheer them on for the money and fame but knife them in the back to score some points with your friends. Without them where in the minds of people would this college be? Everyone is entitled to be heard but if you wanna be heard then been seen also cause all the other powerful speakers are! LSU is enough hell on campus and you call for more???

It would seem that shane tate is no more of a man than to post something of such nature and not show his ugly little face. What make you a man is when you can stand your ground's for bitches like shane tate though you'll never catch the bitch out by himself, he's a coward that's why he joined a coward's group! I stay in Tupelo and for the remainder of this year before my depart I plan on running into through and over Mr. Tate I sure wish I would have known that in school trailor trash, since you alway's wanted a black girlfriend, she's here her name NINA.

Sandlot,

I fail to see any profanity in my post. Should you be refering to my "rat's ass comment then you have not been educated in the field of profanity. The Supreme Court of the United States of America had ruled that Ass is not to be considerd profanity. So it seems as if the tide has turned sir and it is you to whom the idiocy and ignorance eludes to.

I may not be Jesus Christ but I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

This is why the "South" will never rise again. 1. the south lost the war, 2. Southerners spend more time crying about crap that means nothing to the rest of normal America,3. If the KKK would have in Oxford about a year ago the country would be a lot better- more money, more jobs, health care, etc., 4. The school pulled a song that is part of their heritage, if this song offends someone they sell earplugs every day, of course I'm sure the people complainig are the same spoon fed wannabe's that I have to sit next to in traffic with their c(rap) music (bass) so loud I can't hear myself freakin think.,5. If ya don't like things here-MOVE!!!

You may be a decent person "in real life" but anybody that would use the moniker "Jesus Christ" and then use profanity, eludes an air of idiocy and disrespect for the beliefs of others. My prayers are with you and whomever else looks to you for influence...

The Klan has as much right to protest as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or anyone else with a racist agenda. If we didn't have these types of people to complain about we would just find someone else.

The South has always been at the bottom. Will always be at the bottom because people spend too much damn time crying about things that things that don't make a rats ass. How about spending time and trying to help feed the hungry or shelter the homeless. Lets cry about a song instead. We have radio stations broadcasting all over Mississippi playing that racial rap music, full of sexual enuendos and other muck. Why isn't anyone crying about that? Where is free speech? Rise again? When were they ever at the top?

As for the Klan..Well if any islamic terrorists want to get into any place all they have to do is get a permit and disguise themselves as the klan. Who would know? Easy to hide the face and easy to hide lots of explosives under them sheets.

I have thought about this alot.. Yes, this whole mess started over a song... and people trying to make a mountain out of a mole hole.The song was a combination of 2 songs a Confederate and a Union song. And the saying The South Will Rise Again. WELL>>> I sure hope so... I would love to see Mississippi's schools scores rise and I would like to see us rise up off the fat people list. And I would love to see us rise up out of a high unemployment slump.. I really want to ""RISE UP"" FROM THESE PLACES>>> AND ONLY A IDOT WOULD THINK THAT PEOPLE SINGING THE SONG MEAN ANYTHING ELSE.if people have ever read the opening words from

Gone With The Wind... times before the civil war are gone.... never to return... And who would want them to return?? What Mississippi has now is people from other regions trying to cause trouble. GO AWAY.. and take the Klan with you. Are we as a state where we want to be? NO BUT WE WILL RISE... Hotty Toddy OLE MISS

So, Foghorn Leghorn, the First Amendment should be repealed, eh?

Why don't you just admit, your prissy chancellor badly miscalculated? Instead of wrapping himself in the wreath of the virtuous, he's opened his institution to the window of bad publicity. Talk about unintended consequences!

Hah!

MSU, Class of '70.

The laws need to be changed. If an organization persists only to discriminate against others, then it should be legal to discriminate against that organization. The Klan deserves NO protection from the law because for to many years they operated in direct defiance of the laws of this land as well as the laws of nature. These guys are domestic terrorists and should be looked upon no differently than the 9/11 hijackers. The University has an obligation as an educational institution to step up and stop this disgraceful episode before it happens. Period.

im glad this is happening because we can have people world wide know that the south is still the south.im going to b bright eyed and bushy tailed for this historical event.this is going to make the news because the klan is walking into a trap.i suppose someone or many will be hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hottytoddy I dont figure that the University had any choice than to let the Klan have a demonstration as Ole Miss gets state and federal funding and as long as the Klan gets a permit, it has the right to congregate. Glad to see that students got involved in a counter protest. Hardly anyone gives the Klan any creedance anymore and I myself went down to see them when they marched in Tupelo a year or two ago...It was actually pretty amusing watching full grown men make idiots of themselves. I hope everyone will save their ire for things more important like how our congress is putting the shaft to the American people...of course, congress is ALSO a bunch of fullgrown men and women making idiots of themselves...oh well...

This is another fine example of a University giving in to "political Correctness!" If the song offends someone then I think they need a history lesson. Now I agree that the KKK marching is about freakin stupid, these idiots only pick places where they know that they won't get much physical reaction. Let the students sing their song-heck they paying tuition are they not?

Go Bama-hopefully PETA and Charmin won't start protesting their games!!

Is there anyone out there who didn't see this coming?

Sorry, but I'm not impressed by your chancellor. If this thing was a big image problem (a big if, I'd say), the smart thing to have done was to have a discrete conversation with the band director and be done with it. By drawing a line in the sand like Col. Travis, he virtually guaranteed that something like this would happen. Now he has succeeded in getting all parties with knickers tightly knotted in the cleft, and he winds up looking like the assistant principal out-foxed by the 8th grade snots. Your chancellor wouldn't last past the first performance review as a human resources director in a successful business.

For the "Harvard of the South," ya'll got a pretty dumb crowd up there.

Speaking from an outsiders point of view that's not affiliated with either group, if the KKK should disban, so should the NAACP for the same reasons. They both spread hatred, mistrust, and racism.

Some good ppl should meet these idiots at the door, kick their teeth out, and send them back to their mommas basement. Ole Miss doesn't need this kind of publicity. OM has worked hard to remove the stigma of racism. It would be a sin to allow a few crack-heads ruin it. The students should overload the streets in support of racial equality.