I was walking through the airport (Washington, D.C.) this morning on the way to my flight home... and these two guys walked past me, both wearing Ole Miss garb, with a sign that said, "Save Col. Reb". One of the guys was white and the other guy was black. Go figure.
Outside of the 3-4 posters who post here, if you add up the IQ of all Ole Miss fans, you get a number between -10 and -5: That is what it is all about... They got the right coach for the job let me tell you
Maybe this will help: http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/2003/0618/1570099.html I think the whole thing is pretty rediculous.
I think there's some unrest about their mascot. He's a little guy dressed up like a Confederate soldier. I hope I'm not getting them mixed up with some other school nickname the Rebels. But I think they're changing the mascot from now on, and the mascot known as 'Colonel Reb' will no longer represent the school. Ties into the whole thing about black people (and some white people) still getting their feelings hurt, taking Confederate symbols off of state flags, etc., etc. Can anyone verify this, or am I just making it up? I know I heard something like this somewhere recently.
what people need to see is that it is a NAME: It don't represent what the school believes, or what the school does: It is simply a name! Next thing you know, if a Tiger eats a kid at the zoo, they will make us change our name.
I had heard about the mascot thing... I just thought it was odd that these two guys were on their way "somewhere" to garner support. The black guy was a pretty big man... so I guessed he was a former player or something... just wondered if there was something I was missing in " the big picture of life".
Just like with the Confederate Battle Flag, images like Col Reb represent hour ancestors who died because they believed they were defended their homeland... and i don't mean the Confederacy... People in the South (and this was a time only 80-odd years after the beginning of our country) for the most part were spread from the Carolinas and Virginia. These people mostly came from a AngloSaxon heritage of Clan and Country. They considered family to be most important, and had strong ties to their states. Many did not consider themselves Americans, but instead Carolinians, Georgians, etc. The Conferate Flag represented a conglomeration of power by the rich land owners of the South, the Confererate Battle Flag (The Southern Cross) represented the everyday man that made up 99% of the South. That is the heritage that is insulted when any of these PC Yankee morons bitches about our flags and mascots. Lets just get rid of "The Fighting Tigers" too, since they were a Confederate regimine. Go Rebels. Geaux Tigers.
