From Dixie with Love

[jrebel87]

I agree that at one point in time our university held a racist factor (back in the 60's when the guard was called in to stop the rioting), but those days are long gone. for over 30 years our football team has been mostly black and our university just held a presidential debate that featured the first african american black president. The days of olemiss being racist is dead and has been dead for half a generation. These people that are so ignorant that they claim we are racist are complete fools. Its those types of people that took our beloved colonel reb away. Now they want to take the song our bands played for a generation! This is completely uncalled for and we should not allow it. If theres anything that we as fans and alumni can do to stop this abomination then we need to step up and do it. These ignorant idiots are laughing every time we bend to their wishes even though everything they say is bound by ignorance and fool hardiness.

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These people that are so ignorant that they claim we are racist are complete fools. Its those types of people that took our beloved colonel reb away.

Actually, it was our dumb-assed, incompetent athletic director that "took our beloved colonel reb away".

[mpzreb17]

I'm still gonna yell it.

There's nothing wrong with it. I don't care what people from outside the deep south think. This team is cursed because of the political correctness that surrounds it. The Rebels only win when there is controversy. (see: years we were good, even last year. there was controversy surrounding Nutt as a coach, look how well we did)

[lewindha]

I'm still gonna yell it.

There's nothing wrong with it. I don't care what people from outside the deep south think. This team is cursed because of the political correctness that surrounds it. The Rebels only win when there is controversy. (see: years we were good, even last year. there was controversy surrounding Nutt as a coach, look how well we did)

What's your addy? I'll send you a thank you note when they stopped play FDWL.

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I'm still gonna yell it.

There's nothing wrong with it. I don't care what people from outside the deep south think. This team is cursed because of the political correctness that surrounds it. The Rebels only win when there is controversy. (see: years we were good, even last year. there was controversy surrounding Nutt as a coach, look how well we did)

What's your addy? I'll send you a thank you note when they stopped play FDWL.

What he said...

[dgmcdowe]

The Rebels only win when there is controversy. (see: years we were good, even last year. there was controversy surrounding Nutt as a coach, look how well we did)

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

The team only has controversy because we are winning...not the other way around.

When we win, we receive press, good and bad.

[MtownRebel]

Lock? Let's talk about football.

[mpzreb17]

There's no such thing as negative publicity.

Glory Glory Hallelujah
Glory Glory Hallelujah
The South Will Rise Again!

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When it comes to college football recruiting there is.

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Lock? Let's talk about football.

This is legitimate discussion. Don't see any need to censor it.

Having said that, I have said my piece. I'm done.

[parrotreb]

I'm going to continue yelling the south will rise again. And here is why:

It has nothing to do with race. Black people i've sat with yell it just as loud as "whitey". I don't give two *beep* what yall or the rest of the country thinks. Before the civil war, this was the richest state, and Ole Miss was on its way to actually having a right to calling itself the Harvard of the South. When we drunk students yell it, its because we believe our south, particularly our state, is on the "rise", economically, politically, socially, racial reconciliation-wise, and everything else that could positively come from it.

You put that song down, you put us down, and I will just as happily not finish my degree here or at the very least not go to the games even if I can get off work.

Is that an educated enough explanation for you, or should I add a few more f bombs?

There's certainly a workable solution in that rant. And I certainly don't think it would pass anyone's muster as an educated response.

Need bus money?

[OMNOB]

I'm going to continue yelling the south will rise again. And here is why:

It has nothing to do with race. Black people i've sat with yell it just as loud as "whitey". I don't give two *beep* what yall or the rest of the country thinks. Before the civil war, this was the richest state, and Ole Miss was on its way to actually having a right to calling itself the Harvard of the South. When we drunk students yell it, its because we believe our south, particularly our state, is on the "rise", economically, politically, socially, racial reconciliation-wise, and everything else that could positively come from it.

You put that song down, you put us down, and I will just as happily not finish my degree here or at the very least not go to the games even if I can get off work.

Is that an educated enough explanation for you, or should I add a few more f bombs?

There's certainly a workable solution in that rant. And I certainly don't think it would pass anyone's muster as as educated response.

Need bus money?

This has been a very difficult year for me, (and many, many Americans) but if you need someone to chip in for bus fare, I can certainly help.

mpzreb, I have always enjoyed reading your allowances, and have always respected your opinions as well.

However, if you continue to scream TSWRA, the bottom line is that you do nothing but hurt the greater good of Ole Miss, hurt the stereotypical Mississippian, and do harm to yourself within the process.

John Doe viewer will never, ever get that when you utter those five little words that you are, in all actuality, doing so in a positive light in favor of all improving agendas for the state of Mississippi, or the geographic region as a whole.

That person(s) will only see it for what negative conotations that the rest of the country believes (which includes high populations of people in our own region in regards to Mississippi). If you truly want to do great things to promote how far we have come as a state and a region, surely you can find a more productive avenue, because the way in that you choose to voice these sentiments will have nothing but an adverse affect.Period. I would surmise that the largest part of the American population are not mind readers.

Lastly, and I know that it is only my opinion, but if you will not cease and desist (and ask your friends to do so as well) with the chant of TSWRA, it appears that you do not love Ole Miss.

Would you continually do something over and over and over again if you knew that beyond a shadow of a doubt it was hurting a loved one?

If you answer "yes" to the above question, I would strongly urge you and anyone else that feels that "tradition" needs to continue, to please pack up and further their education at an alternative institute.

MSU maybe? 8)

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This has been a very difficult year for me, (and many, many Americans) but if you need someone to chip in for bus fare, I can certainly help.

Yea, we had to shut the software company down in January and I have been looking for work for seven months, and with the impending tax increases jobs are going to remain scarce, but I will chip in as well!

[OMNOB]

Which is the best part of the song! What is wrong with the South rising again? I'm not talking about slavery. I'm talking about the fact that the South was economically stable. Prior to the Civil War the South was economically strong and a leader in the world economy. I scream TSWRA as loud as I can. Because I'm sick of what the South has become. I do not support slavery but I do wish that the South would rise again to the powerhouse it once was.

That is disturbingly naive. The South Will Rise Again is absolutely a phrase from folks who wished the South would have won the Civil War, which would have been one of the most disastrous occurrences in history. From Dixie with Love commemorates one of the most defining events of our history. The blood of those who fought to defend their homes, and those who fought to defend their unified nation, and those who fought to end the Godless atrocity of human bondage is in our soil. That blood rises into the air as vapor and falls back down as rain. That blood is intermingled in those boys, black and white, who play this game together in that Ole Miss uniform.

That war saved this nation and made us stronger. And no piece of art more beautifully conveys the Glory, the horror and the courage of that time. of this nation, than from Dixie with love which celebrates the troops from both sides and the Glory of God that gave us the appropriate outcome...a unified great nation and at least a codified freedom from bondage (which would not have happened as quickly without the war). That song also in its own beautiful way salutes and celebrates how far we have come...

And the fact that a bunch of drunk yahoos would ruin that beauty by acting like adolescents and repeating that ridiculous chant *beep* me off to my core. The fact that the gutless administration would use those drunk yahoos as an excuse to expand and accelerate their "political correctness" assault on our traditions *beep* me off even more. As far as I am concerned, the drunk students and the administration can all go to hell...never to "rise again".

Chuck, I want to thank you for the above. Well said in my estimation.

As for your employment woes, as you have stated in posts not belonging to this thread, let it just be said that I hear you loud and clear. As a fellow Rebel, I find that my heart bleeds for you, as it does me, and hundreds of thousands Americans like us.

Let me also say that my threshold has limits, same as you, and if we have to endure yet another politically correct kick in the perverbial crotch, I too, will be done. "From Dixie With Love", Ole Miss, and Rebels must stay for me to even identify with the hallowed halls I have grown to love.

[anachrist06]

to chucky_38: where did you read that the Pride of the South is no longer going to play "From Dixie With Love"? i'm in the the band and this is shocking news to me. i haven't heard anything about it. band camp does not convene for 2 weeks. i truly hope you are mistaken but i have been very suprised by the accuracy of information on this site in the past.