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Dramatic video as a tornado ripped across Rice, Texas; other possible tornadoes reported

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Winter Storm Warning expanded across Northern Mississippi; damaging ice accumulations likely

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by: Bryan Doyle-

"As a University of Mississippi graduate excited about the progress of his alma mater in the past decade, a strong distaste for the likes of Richard Barrett is interwoven into my DNA.

For the many of you who have no idea who I'm talking about, Mr. Barrett—who for the remainder of this article we will refer to simply as "Dicky"—is an old, crotchety Learned, Miss.-based white supremacist...

...Our school is at risk of losing "From Dixie with Love" because a fringe group of students and alumni use the last five notes to scream "The South Will Rise Again," a phrase racist in most contexts and ignorant in all the rest..."

...The Associated Student Body Senate, with good reason, has publicly asked for the chants to stop. Chancellor Dan Jones, just four months into his new job, is backing up the students, and has threatened to cease playing the song if the chants don't stop. The testing ground was Saturday's North Arizona game. I couldn't hear anything when watching the game on television, but friends of mine who attended the game did hear some saying it.

Now, "From Dixie with Love" is only a song, and the sun will still rise over the hills of north Mississippi if it's never played at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium again. But it is a mistake to give this fringe group power by removing it. Instead of expending all this energy devising ways to shame the chanters into submission, we should instead consider why they use the language in the first place, and come up with reasonable ways to discourage the act.

We should launch an education initiative to treat the cause and not the symptoms.

It's true: Some of the chanters are just troublemakers and immune to all reason -- the Richard Barretts; the Elmer Fudds -- but most are rational people who simply don't know any better. My good friend Roun McNeal, former Associated Student Body President, used to join in years ago, and recently related to the Associated Press why he stopped.

"I said the chant one day, and there was a black family sitting in front of me, and they turned around and gave me this look like I hurt them," he said.
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http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/doyle_from_dixie_with_love_111109/by: Bryan Doyle- "As a University of Mississippi graduate excited about the... more

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Crimson Tide fan calls Ole Miss fans "white trash", said fans now want him dead

The SEC is littered with pugnacious rivalries, and one Bama'-banged Zabka named... more

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Government runs nation's only legal pot garden

Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently... more

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mccain

watchin mccain is like watchin cloris leachman on DANCES WITH THE STARS...

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cloris leachman

watchin' mccain is like watchin cloris leachman on DANCES W/THE STARS....

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Ole Miss the only clear winner in debate

OXFORD, Miss. -- It was the week of McCain and Mississippi. John McCain, the... more

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Ole Miss stuns #4 Florida

How about those Ole Miss Rebels!

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B.O

#debate08 #current.Quit saying when I am president of the United States. Listen to the... more

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Debate Still in Limbo as Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process

The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for tonight, remained... more

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Our operators are standing by…

A snapshot from Current Towers of preparations for our Hack the Debate coverage.... more

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Scenarios for McCain/Obama debate

(Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet on Friday in the... more

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Preparations for First 2008 Presidential Debate (photos)

Photos from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

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Debate WILL go on

(from a different article than linked: “All he has done is stand in front of... more

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McCain will attend presidential debate tonight

McCain will be attending tonight's originally schedule debate, as he feels the... more

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If McCain Doesn’t Debate, Debates Commission Cannot Just Feature Obama

As of Thursday evening, virtually no one knows if John McCain will participate in the first presidential debate set for Friday evening in Oxford, Mississippi. Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, and a former Republican Party national chair, said in an interview with Salon, “The law requires that there must be two candidates for a debate. If we did anything else, we would be making an in-kind contribution to the Obama campaign.” Of course, what he really meant is that there must be at least two candidates in a debate. In 1980, when the League of Women Voters was hosting presidential debates, the League invited President Jimmy Carter, Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, and independent candidate John B. Anderson. Carter refused to participate, so the debate was conducted between Anderson and Reagan. Both did well and neither damaged himself. Later in the season there were two Reagan-Carter debates.

Daily Kos, on Thursday evening, invited comments on the subject of “Whom should Obama debate?” (if McCain doesn’t participate). One commenter at 7:09 p.m. Pacific time said, “Why not let Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, and Cynthia McKinney debate Obama? It couldn’t hurt to hear their positions, and Obama would benefit by reaching out toward left-leaning independents with the gesture.”

Another commenter, at 7:16 p.m., said, “It couldn’t hurt to hear their positions? Yes it could. I am in full agreement that we need to reach out to all voters — specially those who feel let down by Obama’s bouts of centrist triangulation. We won’t get them by including those three…if it is outreach we need, we already know how to do that. Giving these people a forum they would otherwise never have gained does us no good at all. The risks of Obama looking bad in such an encounter are also far too great.”

Still another commenter, at 7:12 p.m., said, “Ralph Nader. Except that would be a real debate and the network would never allow that.”
As of Thursday evening, virtually no one knows if John McCain will participate in... more

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Mississippi voters taken for granted

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prospects were questionable at best that John McCain and Barack... more

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Obama, McCain Say No Deal Yet on Ole Miss Debate

Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain said... more

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