Tag Archives: Dixie
My first day back this fall, I could hear the controversy surrounding me concerning the administration’s decision to remove ‘Dixie’ from the marching band’s repertoire. It immediately brought me back to last October, when I received an email from the university about the removal of the state flag from campus grounds. It was the most complex feeling of hope that...
On a symbolically cold and rainy October morning in northern Mississippi, the beautiful and stubborn state flag was torn down from its post in the Circle. In a direct insult to the state of Mississippi, its people and tens of thousands of students and alumni, the university’s senior “leadership” chose to capitulate to the racist, extremist forces of the “Black...
The South is a place of duality. Of rich and poor, of haves and have-nots, of white and black. Yet oftentimes we are blind to what these dualities mean, or that both sides of the duality represent not faceless ideologies, but people with sets of very real experiences. Such is the debate over Dixie. One side calls vehemently for its reinstatement, accusing the other side...
I was a member of the Pride of the South while in college, and have witnessed the impact that the song “Dixie” has had on the student body and community. It is a unique fight song that shows pride in the Southern heritage, not to mention the many cheers based on “Dixie” that make Ole Miss one of a kind. Never in my years of performing this has anyone expressed...
