KKK to protest ban on 'Dixie' at Ole Miss

[The Straight Story]

KKK to protest ban on 'Dixie' at Ole Miss


OXFORD, Miss., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi say they plan to protest a decision to forbid the Ole Miss band to play "From Dixie With Love" at football games.

The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan say they will demonstrate Saturday morning on the University of Mississippi campus, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported.

The football game that afternoon will be the first time in about 20 years the band will not play "From Dixie With Love," a medley including both the Confederate fight song and its northern counterpart, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." At the end, some fans cry, "The South will rise again."

Chancellor Dan Jones told the band this week the medley is out of the repertoire. He said some who like the medley appear to want "a revival of segregation."

In a statement, the KKK called the ban "an attack on our Southern heritage and culture."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/20/KKK-to-protest-ban-on-Dixie-at-Ole-Miss/UPI-52941258761287/

[cali]

1. Let those who wanted to retain this crap, cringe. Nothing like having the KKK for an ally.

[XanaDUer]

2. Agreed.

nt.

[Dramarama]

3. Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkvRywf4vw

[mikeSchmuckabee]

4. I bet they get a nice warm welcome from the football players.

If the fans don't welcome them first.

[Dramarama]

5. Must've been outnumbered

50-1 from seeing the video