Klansman rally outside Ole Miss-LSU game
November 21, 2009
OXFORD, Miss. (AP)—About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members ralliedbriefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday’s football game withNo. 10 LSU.
The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionallygesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers that included young children. Theywere protesting the school’s decision to drop a pep song that included“Dixie.”
Some fans had been ending the song by chanting, “The South will riseagain.” Chancellor Dan Jones asked the band to stop playing the song after fansignored a request to drop the chant.
The Klan said it was protesting over lost Southern symbolism at Ole Miss,which has been rocked by racial strife before.