Pro-Confederate group protests ‘Ole Miss’ rebranding efforts, urge secession [View all]
Confederate sympathizers protested the University of Mississippi’s rebranding efforts to minimize its racist past.
About 35 demonstrators carried Confederate battle flags Saturday morning through parts of Oxford, where university officials have decided to rename some campus streets and cut back on using the “Ole Miss” nickname.
Some say the nickname originated as a term used by slaves to refer to plantation owners’ wives, and university officials plan to limit its use to sports and spirit activities rather than academics. But the protesters say the university should honor its Confederate heritage instead of obscuring it.
“How can you take a Confederate school built by Confederates in a Confederate state and say you’re not Confederate?” said Debbie Sible, who helped organize the protest. “It’s like my dog trying to dress up my cat.”
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