In Ole Miss' ongoing efforts to be more "inclusive" and shed its image as a relic of the Confederate South, Colonel Rebel was banned from football games this year.
In Ole Miss' ongoing efforts to be more "inclusive" and shed its image as a relic of the Confederate South, Colonel Rebel was banned from football games this year.…
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76 - lost cause
Stop going to Ole Miss. Stop going to their games, stop watching or supporting this college in any way, shape or form. Let them know how you see this as an act of reverse discrimination against those who feel their heritage is being stolen by the politically correct. If these ignorant PC type feel the war was about slavery, so be it. The blind will lead the blind. Let them walk off the cliff.
77 - TRUErebel
Here's an idea that will fix it all!!! If you don't like colonel Reb, feel free to get the hell out of my school. We're not forcing you to be here and we're VERY tired of your whiney asses. There are lots of other schools to choose from. PLEASE feel more than welcome to look into somewhere else.
78 - DTG
One question. Who sold the slaves to the slave traders that brought them to America?
79 - Todd Ross
Interesting old posts here.
I wonder why no one commented that Col Reb was based on Blind Jim Ivy. In case you don't know who he was, he was a peanut vendor in Oxford and was considered the mascot for Ole Miss. He was an icon at Ole Miss for 6 - 7 decades.
Blind Jim Ivy was black.
Maybe if they make Col Rebel black there would be no fuss?
80 - cj
The black chiefs of Africa sold ther own people to the slave traders.
For a few trinkets and some rum and maybe a few loaves of bread.
If don,t like America go back to your africa where the problems started.
Nuff said!
81 - yo
DTG and cj,
You forgot the part where Black Africans wouldn't have engaged in the transatlantic slave trade were it not for pressure from white colonialists in the first place. But hey, continue with revisionist history.
- Yo
82 - WC
Regarding the last comment - perhaps you are correct that Africans would not have participated in the transatlantic slave trade without white pressure. What you failed to point out, however, is that they would have simply continued capturing and trading black African slaves among themselves as they had done for tens of thousands of years and continue to do even today.
83 - holly
I'm doing research for a book on the Old South & Ole Miss. Can anyone tell me the dates when Ole Miss stopped-
1)allowing the Rebel flag at school events
2)allowing Colonel Reb at school events
3)playing 'Dixie' at school events
Ole Miss banned Colonel Reb?