Ole Miss Student Council Votes To Take Down State Flag On Campus Because Of Ties To Confederacy
The Confederate flag has taken a lot of heat over the past four months. South Carolina officials removed the battle flag from the statehouse grounds back in July. Three public schools in Mississippi have removed the state flag from their campuses already (Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, and Alcorn State University). Now, there is a fourth university in Mississippi who will be removing the state flag: Ole Miss.
On Tuesday night, members of the student council at the University of Mississippi gathered together to vote on whether or not to remove the Mississippi state flag from the campus. The measure passed with a bunch of support for taking it down. The final tally was 33-15 with one person abstaining.
From USA Today:
“It’s just overwhelming to know that the voices of students that are affected by this image, that feel excluded by this image, that are hurt by the symbol, that their voices were heard,” said Sen. Allen Coon, co-author of the resolution, after the vote. “It means that we truly are taking steps toward progress, that we care about change, that we care about students and that we respect difference.”
One Senator who backed the flag said that since Ole Miss receives state funding, then this is a state issue and not a university issue. I tend to side on his point of view. The state flag is still the state flag, after all. Is Mississippi promoting racism by including the battle flag on their state flag? Obviously not, but a lot of people are protesting as such.
The Associated Student Body President, Rod Bridges, will now decide whether or not to veto the resolution. However, he has already said he would not do so..
[via USA Today]
Image via YouTube
What the fuck has this country become. Bunch of fuckin’ panzies. Not a TFM.
11 years ago at 2:37 pmI can’t believe a state funded institution would actually vote to remove said state’s flag from their own campus. Ungrateful pricks.
11 years ago at 2:37 pmWhat makes it even worse is the fact that its OLE FUCKIN MISS. I always thought the state of Mississippi would never fall into this shit.
11 years ago at 5:25 pmFuck liberals. TSWRA.
11 years ago at 10:33 pmIs there anyway the student body can appeal it? Maybe call for Allen Coon to be removed from his position? Draft a petition saying that the move doesn’t represent the majority of the students beliefs/feelings/wants? Anything?
11 years ago at 1:53 amThe Ole Miss student body is as apathetic as they come. The Greeks haven’t figured out that it would be mutually beneficial to pool votes for student elections. And it’s well known that several houses are more than happy to rat on others and suck off Sparky Reardon to win favor.
11 years ago at 4:16 amAnd they took a non-binding vote on Colonel Reb in the early 2000s. It did no good. Then the switch to the current mascot involved some shifty shit too. The school oozes white guilt these days.
And for the record I’m all for the state flag being changed, because the current flag wasn’t adopted in the middle of the Civil Rights era to “honor confederate heritage”. I like the old Magnolia flag, but the SJWs bitch about that too because it was adopted as the state flag during the civil war. There’s no winning with those people.
Also they are not racist.
11 years ago at 1:58 pmSeems like a big element.
Not.
Racist.
Seems like a difficult concept for you fratties to get when the symbol is representative of a systemic oppression of minorities.
You are basically arguing for a nazi symbol on your flag.
I’ve gotten numb to hearing things like this up north, California, etc. But taking down the God damn state flag.. In fucking Mississippi. This country is hurting my heart.
11 years ago at 2:38 pmThey voted for Obama too.
11 years ago at 2:42 pmIf you want that flag changed or removed go to congress not your title IX office.
11 years ago at 2:43 pmWhen was it that individuals’ feelings not getting hurt became the thing this country cared most about?
11 years ago at 2:45 pmThis is horrifying. As a Southerner and descendant of Confederate veterans, it makes me absolutely sick to see people from the South disgrace their heritage and dishonor the men who fought to protect their homes and families from invasion.
11 years ago at 2:46 pmYour ancestors were traitors.
11 years ago at 3:15 pmThat’s the story you get in the socialist school system. It’s beaten into people’s heads from the time they’re in grade school. And your comment was a grade school level comment, by the way – not an argument of any sort. I would recommend reading some real history. You can start with Thomas DiLorenzo’s “The Real Lincoln”. If you have the courage to read it, that is.
11 years ago at 3:28 pmI guess our other ancestors were traitors too; the ones that fought Britian for independence. Take a lap and then chug some anti-freeze.
11 years ago at 3:43 pmNah. My ancestors came over from Europe in the 1840’s. I have no ties (ancestrally) to the men who fought for independence from Britain.
11 years ago at 3:53 pmGo back to your country.
11 years ago at 4:44 pmYeah that’s why a good number of northern states toyed with the idea of secession and even threatened to secede many times in the decades before the civil war. Hell, secession was written into New Yorks constitution at the time. Would they have been traitors too? At the time, the states were pretty sovereign.
11 years ago at 7:59 pmI wish I could downvote this un-american comment more than once
11 years ago at 11:48 pmYour more recent ancestors were probably the dumbasses who helped turn the battle standard into a symbol of racism
11 years ago at 3:27 pmHow about protecting black friends during Jim Crow and saving a black family from starving to death by giving an unemployed man a job and place to live? How about you think before you repeat the “racism” mantra of the social justice zombies, you ignorant buffoon.
11 years ago at 3:31 pmFrom “invasion” of the country you’re living in right now?
11 years ago at 4:12 pmLincoln threatened “invasion and bloodshed” in his first inaugural address, and that’s what he delivered. The US was originally a confederacy of sovereign, independent countries (states). The Union of the Founders was based on a practical, voluntary arrangement of free states. Lincoln destroyed that original Union. Besides, what would you call an army of tens of thousands coming into your state to destroy your home and kill you, if not an invasion?
11 years ago at 4:31 pmYou probably think slavery was the best thing since sliced bread too right?
11 years ago at 5:54 pmWhat a child-like thing to say. What? I favor slavery because I believe that Thomas Jefferson and the tradition of the compact theory of the Union were correct? Leftist drivel really is getting old on this issue. I realize this is a satirical website for fraternities, but still, I think my comments have had more content than the “slavery” and “racist” comment zombies have put out here. Just writing scary-sounding words doesn’t refute my points. By the way, Google Tom Woods’ “Interview with a Zombie” and you will see what I’m getting at.
11 years ago at 8:54 pmI live in the north but was born and raised in the south, it amazes me how some northerners think everyone in the south had huge plantations with slaves, but that is simply not the case. My ancestors were too poor to afford slaves. They worked their own land and fought against people who tried to tell them what they could or could not do, that is what the confederate battle flag means to me. It has nothing to do with race.
11 years ago at 11:44 pmI fear for what kind of world my unborn children will grow into. Sad day in America.
11 years ago at 2:48 pmThe deeper issue is clearly that Mississippi needs a new flag. Whether southerners like it or not the battle standard only became popular during Jim Crowe and the Civil Rights Movement. The state flag was made well before then with innocent intentions but at this point the symbol has taken a different meaning. I’d equate it to a part of Germany putting a swastika on their coat of arms and claiming it showed nationalism instead of anti-semitism
11 years ago at 2:51 pmThe social justice warriors don’t care about hurt feelings – they care about control. And part of that is stamping out every last bit of resistance to centralization of power. The Confederate flag is a symbol of resistance and decentralization of power, so it has to go in order to carry out their agenda. I’m not ready to hand this country over to the socialists without a fight.
11 years ago at 3:08 pm“The deeper issue is clearly that Mississippi needs a new flag.”
Agreed. One that proudly represents Southern heritage:
11 years ago at 3:20 pmI dont want that god damn French flag flying over Ole Miss!!
11 years ago at 3:33 pmGet the fuck out of here. Your profile pic is a mass murderer
11 years ago at 6:13 pmAnd yours is of a looooohooooserrrrr
11 years ago at 10:37 amIt’s funny how symbols start meaning different things as soon as the media and liberals decided start pushing their narrative down every one’s throats.
11 years ago at 3:43 pmThese are the same idiots who think Lincoln liked blacks. Read some history, maybe look up his Liberia Plan…
11 years ago at 10:18 pmIt’s ridiculous because most of the student council aren’t even from Mississippi. They come here from states not related to the South at all, fuck shit up, and then leave. Next are the statues and even name “Ole Miss”.
11 years ago at 2:52 pmI can see it now… “Ole Miss is a sexist term created to maintain the patriarchy”
11 years ago at 3:41 pm