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Ole Miss, MSU Issue Statements in Support of Removing Confederate Emblem from State Flag
The University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University have both taken stances in support of removing the Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag.
University of Mississippi Acting Chancellor Morris H. Stocks issued the following statement:
“The University of Mississippi community came to the realization years ago that the confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values such as civility and respect for others. Since that time, we have become a stronger and better university. We join other leaders in our state who are calling for a change in the state flag.”
Mississippi State University Office of Public Affairs issued the following statement:
“Like all people of good will, Mississippi State University abhors the senseless violence that was visited on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and we grieve with the families of the victims. In 2001, the MSU Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly in support of changing the state flag of Mississippi prior to the failed statewide voter referendum on that question. Other than lawful displays of the state flag, the symbols in question are not associated with our university. As the most diverse university in the Southeastern Conference and the most diverse of the original land-grant universities in the country, Mississippi State remains committed to diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity and a culture of fellowship, tolerance and peace. That’s true in our academic offerings and in our athletic programs as well.”
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | W, 28-10 |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | L, 24-17 |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | 2:30 PM ABC |
Leo Capone
June 24, 2015 at 2:52 pm
We should have changed long ago.
Tara
June 24, 2015 at 3:12 pm
http://m.nbc12.com/nbc12/db_330650/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=2eSTAMk7
Anonymous
June 24, 2015 at 3:30 pm
People of SC have spoken.
shonda
June 24, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Dnt take our flag it is a supporter to n so many ways
Anonymous
June 24, 2015 at 7:02 pm
I just have been trying to find somebody to tell me what it really is going to change. The flag in S.C. did not make those people get shot. If it was a flag with a rose on it they still would have been shot. People must change and a flag will not change them.
steve wade
June 24, 2015 at 8:47 pm
After being a life long msu supporter i can not believe the ignorance of what the confederate battle flag stands for and the southern history behind it. One idiot that committed a horrendous crime and the media discovered a picture of him holding that flag changed the the whole situation. It is a disgrace to the victims to blame a flag and deflect the blame off a mentally deficient criminal. I will be supporting a different sec team thats not so shallow.
Anonymous
June 25, 2015 at 7:33 am
The confederate flag is a symbol of hatred from the “failed southern states” in the abolition of slavery. Hatred is an evil spirit which is behind this flag. It must go!!!! And it will!!!!!
steve wade
June 25, 2015 at 9:31 am
I dont listen to anyone afraid to use their name.
K stevenson
June 26, 2015 at 12:00 am
How stupid to change a flag.
Daniel Jones
June 26, 2015 at 1:45 am
Thanks to both schools for these statements. The rebel flag should’ve been retired decades ago. Let’s look forward not backward.
Luke
June 30, 2015 at 7:50 pm
Keep your flag. Change your hearts.
Joseph Blackston MD
June 30, 2015 at 11:01 pm
Dear “acting” Chancellor Stocks,
Thanks for the politically-correct piling on. You are perhaps confusing your own political viewpoints with that of Ole Miss.
YOU do not speak for the school, or the students, or the alumni. Statements like yours are EXACTLY why YOU are now the “acting Chancellor” and not the Provost . . .
Jim Hays
July 3, 2015 at 7:24 am
If Mississippi had an “all white” or All pink” or “all Black” flag, or no flag at all, that atrocity in SC would still have happened!
If we totally abolish ALL reference to the “war between the states”. we lose part of our history. This present day problem doesn’t approach the atrocity done to “native Americans” in the latter 19th & early 2oth century. And THAT flag was the “stars & stripes”. go figure………..times change!
Anonymous
July 7, 2015 at 10:29 am
to all those with dissenting opinions on this, you’re certainly entitled to them. but know that you’re part of a dying breed. as khayat recently wrote, the confederate flag absolutely has a place in history. but it belongs in a place with other historical artifacts – a museum. surely you realize, when history books point back to the flag, the message will be one of division, oppression, hatred. the flag’s legacy was long ago tarnished.
as far as comments that say these statements “don’t represent ole miss” – well, you’re incredibly out of touch with our university. inclusion, diversity, and yes, political correctness, are virtues we now abide by. yes, an acting chancellor released this statement. but it DOES speak for students, and an overwhelming majority of our alumni.