The Ku Klux Klan is planning to demonstrate at the Ole Miss-LSU football game this Saturday in full robes to protest Ole Miss's decision to stop playing "From Dixie With Love" at their football games.
"We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it's time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech," said Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in an email to the Daily Reveille, LSU's student paper.
The white supremacist group is protesting a decision by the chancellor of the University of Mississippi, Dan Jones, to prohibit the school band from playing the song at games. Ole Miss students chant "The South will rise again," during the song -- and had continued the chant even after the student council passed a resolution changing the words to "To hell with LSU.
So Jones ordered the school band not to play the song.
"We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation," Jones said in a statement to students.
The KKK has notified Ole Miss of the protest, and the university will allow it.
"We aren't coming there to cause problems or cause trouble," Tate said. "Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college."

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DaveJ
November 19, 2009 6:05 PM
who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.
Man, that guy must have never even gone to college--THE SODOMY IS THE BEST PART!!!!
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rynato
November 19, 2009 7:27 PM in reply to DaveJ
FTMFW
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Matt Jones
November 19, 2009 6:06 PM
Maybe they can burn the student body president in effigy at the rally - after all, the teabaggers will assure anyone who asks that it's not a threat or a call to violence...
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commie atheist
November 19, 2009 6:44 PM
Great titan? Balderdash! I will accept nothing less than a statement from the Grand Dragon or Imperial Wizard.
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Mooser
November 19, 2009 6:53 PM
These guys are out to give freedom of speech a bad name.
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realist
November 19, 2009 7:08 PM
Anybody who's spent any time there at all knows full well that Ole Miss is more gomorrahist than sodomist.
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wake up
November 19, 2009 9:02 PM
I feel cheated, for having attended a center right missionary position college.
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wake up
November 19, 2009 9:28 PM in reply to wake up
I had so much catching up to do. :)
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lyleleander
November 20, 2009 2:40 AM
"We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it's time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech,"
Once again whack-a-doodle, right-wing bigot morons completely whiffing when it comes to understanding what 'free speech' is.
Okay, here's how it works... if the police showed up and threatened to put anybody playing the song in cuffs, that's a violation of free speech.
Short of that, it's a college making an executive decision in the best interests of its student-body.
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Iamtheocean
November 20, 2009 3:14 AM
What that Tea party patriots are protesting a football game
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GaltKid
November 20, 2009 9:05 AM
FOX will probalby use footage from the Super Bowl to show the crowd...
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Schmed- ley
November 20, 2009 11:32 AM
To quote a comment on the original story: "No wonder Mississippi is the poorest, dumbest, fattest state in the country."
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johnny b
November 20, 2009 2:32 PM
"it's a college making an executive decision in the best interests of its student-body."
First of all, it doesn't take the majority of the student body to force an institution to make decisions when you've got a team of activist drones and special interest groups trying to make themselves useful.
Second of all, how is this in the best interest of the student body? I would think a solid curriculum that would actually help the students when they go out into the real world instead of teaching them about the art of porno and victimology would be a little higher up on the agenda.
These university students should be taught the rich cultural heritage of the South, but they are not. One big word sticks out like a sore thumb and overshadows the whole entire period. That is ludicrous.
They want to take the confederate flag down in South Carolina because to them it means racism. Guess what? To most people there it doesn't mean that. Just because you interpret one thing one way does not make it fact.
The liberals HATE the South and they hate all Southerners. Did you notice the last poster made a reference to how poor they are? I moved to the South for work and there are more impoverished white people here than you can shake a stick at...but instead of Sally Struthers coming out and reporting on them and rubbing it in your lily white privileged face, we laugh at them and call them rednecks. Same thing goes for the Appalachian communities.
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Schmed- ley
November 20, 2009 3:21 PM in reply to johnny b
He also mentioned fat and dumb. I can forgive poor. In this day and age, the other two are personal choices.
So, what does the Confederate flag mean? I suspect that the KKK intelligentia planning on rallying tomorrow thinks it means white superiority, a.k.a. racism. If you think it means something else, are you prepared to contradict those Miss. natives who plan to exercise their 1st amendment right to proclaim their racist contempt for all the world to see?
I suspect you're going to put forth the lame argument that the rebel flag stands for "southern heritage" or some such bunk. Before you do, please explain how that heritage doesn't include a vicious defense of slavery starting with the hijacking of the Constitutional Convention and ending with the Rebellion Against the United States of America in 1861. Also, how does southern heritage not include Jim Crow, the Klan, lynching, and all of the other southern "delights" that African Americans suffered during the first half of the 20th century?
I don't hate the south. I'm just embarrassed to have it as part of my country. I hope that if their rebellious secessionist spirit ever catches fire there again, we just let them go and then build a huge enough wall to keep them and their "heritage" out for good. It'll be cheaper for us in the long run and we won't have to hear their bullshit anymore.
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Steve
November 21, 2009 5:16 PM
Several shocks here- The North MS KKK has members that can (a) read, and (b) use email being among them. Kudos to Chancellor Jones for supporting the students in making this change. I'm sure the only folks paying any attention to the Kluckers will be the out-of-town media who love any opportunity to paint Southerners as backward and dumb.
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