The Ku Klux Klan will be in full force Saturday on the Ole Miss campus.While The Daily Reveille is in no way supportive of this hate group, we implore all LSU fans not to engage or converse with the robed ones.The controversy sparked when Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones removed “From Dixie with Love” from the Ole Miss band’s selection. The traditional gameday song has a spot reserved for the Ole Miss student section to scream “The South will rise again,” becoming a staple of Rebel football for years. A resolution to replace the scream with the apparently less controversial “to hell with LSU” was never enacted.The decision to ban the song arose the ire of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, whose grand titan Shane Tate, explained to The Daily Reveille by e-mail that they don’t mean to cause any problems. “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,” Tate said.However backward the Klan’s ideology is, we cannot stress how important it is for Tiger fans to represent the University with class and integrity. Our fans need not sink to this level, and we again implore our fans not to give Ole Miss a chance to argue that the Klan is classier than LSU fans.Please act with dignity, and don’t give Ole Miss a reason to denigrate our own liberal, sodomite college.- – – -Contact the Editorial Board at [email protected]
Our View: If you’re heading to Ole Miss, don’t engage the Klan
November 19, 2009