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So it is about racism like I suspected and unlike your denial earlier in this thread in trying to imply that the "southern mentality" was something else. You're all over the place with this right now.

There is no denial. I stand by my statement that if you arent from the south there are some thing that you wont understand and might imply as racism when it has nothing to do with race. For example, if I see a guy with a confederate flag I see a guy who is proud of his heritage. Dont kid me if you dont think others who dont understand the south dont just view it as some redneck racist.

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Surely you're not suggesting outside legislature make that decision

No I'm suggesting that some decisions have to be made without a vote by our administration. Whose job it is to move Ole Miss in the right direction.

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Many have pointed out that Dixie doesn't have any racist undertones/connotations. So what gives?

If there was no racist undertones to the song this vote never would have taken place and there wouldnt be several pages of people talking about it on this site.

This is gonna be my last response to this thread because you an pick apart every point I make until the end of time. We just agree to disagree. We all want what is best for Ole Miss. I'm sure there were people who were just as upset about losing the confederate flags at games. It was a Ole Miss tradition, which set Ole Miss apart from other schools. I'm personally glad someone had the balls to go against what the majority wanted and did what was best for Ole Miss.

Once again we just agree to disagree. Good debate though.

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Posted by BluegrassBelle

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:34 am to Doresrules

We clearly disagree on what is "best" for Ole Miss at this point and that's fine. And I'm picking apart what you're saying because that's what you do in a debate. Anyway, best for Ole Miss is not making an issue out of something there should be no issue with at this juncture given the extreme moves Ole Miss has made by eradicating other traditions that could be perceived as racist. There are much better ways to be progressive on the perception front and this isn't one of them.

As I said earlier, it's simply attention whoring by the ASB and others who just want to push it as far as they can go and clearly don't have the best interest of the University at heart.

That's my final point as well.