The Ku Klux Klan is planning to demonstrate at the Ole Miss-LSU football game this Saturday in full robes to protest Ole Miss’s decision to stop playing “From Dixie With Love” at their football games.
“We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it’s time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech,” said Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in an email to the Daily Reveille, LSU’s student paper.
The white supremacist group is protesting a decision by the chancellor of the University of Mississippi, Dan Jones, to prohibit the school band from playing the song at games. Ole Miss students chant “The South will rise again,” during the song — and had continued the chant even after the student council passed a resolution changing the words to “To hell with LSU.
So Jones ordered the school band not to play the song.
“We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation,” Jones said in a statement to students.
The KKK has notified Ole Miss of the protest, and the university will allow it.
“We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble,” Tate said. “Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.”
