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
Hard to be a rebel without a flag…
11 years ago at 2:56 pmDon’t worry the South WILL rise again.
11 years ago at 2:58 pmThey barely rose the first time
11 years ago at 3:24 pmLearn your history, you uneducated clown. The South fought very well with few resources to speak of and a much smaller population to draw on. It’s a testament to the quality of Southern warriors that the war lasted so long.
11 years ago at 3:33 pmDon’t insult our beloved tribal leader. He made no comment on the South’s military expertise. He commented only on the duration of their rise.
11 years ago at 3:44 pmHe is no beloved tribal leader. He isn’t even the real JohnRedcorn.
11 years ago at 7:09 pmSouthern warriors and Northern incompetence.
11 years ago at 4:00 amYou shut your whore mouth JohnRedcorn211
11 years ago at 3:47 pmhttp://www.theonion.com/article/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year-377
11 years ago at 3:36 pmYankees are only a step above pledges.
11 years ago at 3:49 pmDon’t even
11 years ago at 4:03 pmDamn what does that make rebels then? Pledges? That’s how the union treated your sorry asses anyway
11 years ago at 4:11 pmAnd you would think a school like Ole Miss would keep the flag up. Leftism is everywhere gentlemen. Never stop fighting it.
11 years ago at 3:08 pmI really would like to know how and why some motherfuckers in this country feel like they’re entitled to be offended by every single thing.
11 years ago at 3:09 pmNo way, get real.
11 years ago at 8:57 amIt’s all fuckers in our student council. This is disgraceful
11 years ago at 3:28 pmRemoving flags erases history, guys. Soon, it’ll be like slavery never happened. You gotta be more progressive with civil liberties; and banning flags is just a start.
11 years ago at 3:40 pmI respect the efforts of Confederate soldiers but anything even remotely tied to slavery needs to go. Most of us are middle to upper class white males and haven’t faced any type of condescending diversity. If we could empathize it might be different, but I wouldn’t want to be in the minority and have something reminiscent of my ancestors’ struggles being flown next to the flag representative of my freedoms. Before you roast me, I think a majority of PC issues are total bullshit and are brought up by those looking for attention.
11 years ago at 3:40 pmYou PC bro?
11 years ago at 3:46 pmTake laps bro
11 years ago at 7:52 pmThanks for pointing that out. I’m new to this site.
11 years ago at 11:18 pmThat was a totally different time. It is very easy to say, in 2015, that enslaving people is wrong. That was a world that nobody alive today can even attempt to comprehend. There was a widespread belief, held by many northerns too, that blacks were inferior to whites. Lincoln himself started the war with no cause for them. It bothers me when the south is condemned for something that happened over 150 years ago when everyone today is looking at the events in hindsight.
11 years ago at 8:36 pmBut why continue to propagate anything that has to do with that time? Have museums and monuments, that’s it.
11 years ago at 9:58 pmThat’s complete bullshit
11 years ago at 3:43 pmLiberal America = Pussy America
11 years ago at 4:09 pmThis is complete bullshit. You’re the rebels kinda hard to be that without the flag
11 years ago at 4:10 pm