The first batch of photos are out, via the ASSOCIATED PRESS, of the Ku Klux Klan rally at Ole Miss today before the Rebels play LSU at 3:30p ET.
The AP reports:
The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about 10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionally gesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers that included young children. They were 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 rise again.” Chancellor Dan Jones asked the band to stop playing the song after fans ignored a request to drop the chant.
I’ve heard from two people who saw the proceedings who said the rally was actually ended by law enforcement, with the KKK forcibly removed from campus. No word yet if that is true and if so, why the *protest* was cut short.
The KKK originally announced earlier this week that it would rally from 10am to 11pm on the Ole Miss campus.
While it has been widely reported that Ole Miss had no choice but to allow the rally to go off, the school could’ve deemed that the protestors presented a “clear and present” danger to the public before allowing today’s events.
Apparently Ole Miss officials thought that people walking around wearing hoods while shouting threatening, obscene rhetoric in the middle of a massive group of people who have been consuming alcohol was not a danger to the public.
Ole Miss most certainly had a choice, and constitutionally had every right to refuse the KKK. And it didn’t.
Apparently 10 minutes into the rally, police disagreed with Ole Miss officials and, as an emailer who was in attendance wrote to me, “kicked the KKK off campus.”
Do you think there are federally-funded schools out there that would not allow the KKK to rally on-campus under similar circumstances? I do.
2:01 pm on November 21st, 2009
Well, that’s the most attention those ass-clowns have gotten all year. Now they can all go back to Jimmy Jay’s garage and look at kiddie porn on the Internet.
2:12 pm on November 21st, 2009
You are correct Bar None. And, once again, thank Ole Miss’ politically correct chancellor for this mess.
3:09 pm on November 21st, 2009
THey look like the evil elves from the South Pole…
Ya there’s an evil Santa at the South Pole that delivers lousy presents, didn’t you know?!
3:13 pm on November 21st, 2009
NO fan of the Klan here but I suspect what Ole Miss did via the police was illegal.
Ole Miss cannot keep protestors off campus so easily. It appears to me from the photos that the Rally was a specific place so I am not sure we are dealing with people walking around creating problems and thus a public danger.
So it “appears” the Klan had met the tiime and space requirements and that Ole Miss might have infringed on that.
4:42 pm on November 21st, 2009
only a coward needs to wear a mask, if they’re so proud, show your face losers!
5:02 pm on November 21st, 2009
Wow look at the poll.
SbB attracts some really backwards hateful prejudice readers (amazing, they can actually read…probably just come for the pictures).
Spewing and disseminating hate towards someone who cannot change there race, gender, orientation, height, and the like is not “ok” under the right to “peacefully” assemble in protest. It’s not covered under free speech. Sorry, you can’t hate and threaten anyone you want.
6:17 pm on November 21st, 2009
the kkk is protected by the 1st amendment. the kkk has a right to assemble and protest the removal of the song. that is their right.
just as it is my right to say that the kkk is wrong for having the beliefs that they have.
however, i voted that the police are wrong because free speech should NEVER BE INFRINGED UPON BY ANYONE!!!
and…if you really want to break it down. those who were drunk and unruly were NOT the kkk as much as it was the crowd.
idiots, YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO TURN YOUR BACK ON THE RACISTS. DO NOT GIVE THEM ATTENTION. THAT IS WHAT THEY CRAVE. THEY WANT AN ALTERCATION. IGNORE THEM.
and your comment about SbBrooks attracting backwards people….. your comment is full of hate. you literally contradicted yourself by insulting people who support the 1st amendment as much as they do. which by the way, gives ALL of us the freedom to write on this website!!!!
so hypocrite, think before you write. those backwards people you insulted are supporting your freedom to write comments on this site…..you dope.
9:10 pm on November 21st, 2009
haha
9:49 pm on November 21st, 2009
So you’re calling batman a coward… I hope he heard that.
10:21 pm on November 21st, 2009
Well, that’s Ole Miss for you. I heard they changed the name of their big portable bathroom from the “Hotty Toddy Potty” to the “Ku Klux Kan” for this game.
12:58 am on November 22nd, 2009
Adam West is a coward?
1:33 am on November 22nd, 2009
You are a moron that has no understanding of the 1st amendment. I also notice what you don’t report is the size of the counter-protest that dwarfed the dozen or so klansmen that showed up. I know you have no concept of “public forum” but at least give the side of the story where the Ole Miss community shouted down the protesters, which is what led the police to shutting down the KKK’s “rally” before the student body ripped them to shreds.
1:38 am on November 22nd, 2009
Ok, I concede that I was wrong, looking back at the post, I see that you included a little bit about the counter-protest. Yet, still don’t mention that it was members of the Ole Miss community that had the rally shut down. But still, you should really look up the concept of a public forum before condemning the Ole Miss administration.
Now would it have been preferable to be sued or insist that their “protest” take place a different day, maybe. But the adminstration would’ve lost that suit based upon well settled supreme court decisions.
7:20 am on November 22nd, 2009
Someone needs to tell these assclowns that Halloween was over a month ago.
Plus is you’re going to protest something, at least have the balls to show your face.
7:42 pm on November 22nd, 2009
If one million blackis can march for their rights, why can’t white people? If people are equal then color should not matter when they want to speak for their rights. Too PC in this country. You wanna see racist people go to the Bronx or Harlem if you dare. The college did the right thing
10:40 pm on November 22nd, 2009
The poll needs a ‘Both’ option.
1:04 pm on November 23rd, 2009
muggsy pogues is one stupid ass hole blacks march for rights not f***ing hate against whites for their color these fools are marching for a song that ends with the “South” will rise again please people stop living in the pass….things like this make me ashamed to say i’m from Mississippi and that one MAIN reason I did not go to OLE MISS because its always something racist going on on it campus GO STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4:07 pm on November 23rd, 2009
The only surprise in this story is the revelation that the KKK has special red and green robes it busts out this time of year. Worst… commercialization of Xmas… ever.
5:00 pm on November 23rd, 2009
comparing the Klan to civil rights is clearly off base…but not if you used gangs…KKK did less damage and some good ( though not enough to out weigh the bad) similar to the Mafia….taking care of their own… the gangs ( mostly black and hispanic) do NOTHING good except running up welfare, healthcare and police tabs that have no contribution from the idiots in the gangs around the US…they are killing more americans than the muslim terrorist have ( so far)
9:12 am on December 2nd, 2009
the klan should come out of hidding
6:41 pm on December 2nd, 2009
I just dont understand how some can hate others just for the color of their skin. Think back- not one of the KKK originated on American soil. White people came from everywhere. You want African americans to go back - then so should white people.