A little sports story in Mississippi has turned into quite the hullabaloo. The University of Mississippi (or “Ole Miss”) band had been playing a song during football games called “From Dixie With Love.” At the end of the song, a contingent of students and fans recently started chanting “The South will rise again!” Anyway, long story short, the school administration banned the song, hoping to quell the chant. Many Rebel fans were upset, but I’m not writing to get into the merits of that call.
The controversy of the banning of the “Dixie” song led to some yokels in the Ku Klux Klan to announce they would show up at this Saturday’s game in protest. I believe the quote was that they wanted to prevent Ole Miss from turning into “another liberal sodomite college.” (Hey, doesn’t everybody do a little experimenting in college?)
Well, the Kluxers showed up all right — about a half-dozen of them. Not exactly a terrorizing turnout for observers. And while the small number of idiots (and the high number of counter-protesters) is a good sign, my favorite image from the “rally” is their flag. In the picture above, which I first saw at Dr. Saturday, notice how perfectly creased the Confederate battle flag is. That thing’s spent a whole lot of time folded up in storage. You know those guys haven’t done much night-riding and marching and whatnot if they haven’t even bothered to iron the creases out of their flag. Or maybe they leave that to the KKK Ladies’ Auxiliary. In any event, a pretty sorry demonstration.