On Tuesday, Ole Miss students voted to choose a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb. The student body was given a choice between picking a new mascot or Ole Miss continuing as the only SEC school without one. Although America takes pride in its commitment to democracy, keeping Colonel Reb was not on the ballot. The Colonel was forced into retirement in 2003.
The old Confederate soldier is the latest victim in a PC campaign to purge Ole Miss of its Southern heritage. A few years ago, Confederate flags were banned at Ole Miss football games. The school flag was changed. Last year the Ole Miss band stopped playing Dixie. Students are no longer allowed to chant "The South will rise again" at football games. Every concession to political correctness has led to further extreme demands and appeasement.
This is the ugly reality of multiculturalism for Southerners: it means celebrating the culture and heritage of every group in the world but our own. Under Cultural Marxism, we are not allowed a positive sense of identity. When we speak of our past, multiculturalism demands that we must always do so in cringing, obsequious, apologetic tones. The cant of "diversity," so ubiquitous on Southern college campuses these days, does not include the natives.
This has led to a situation where Chinese, Afghan, Hispanic, and Indonesian student groups are encouraged to organize on Southern campuses and wallow in their ethnic identity while every symbol of the Confederate past must be torn down and spat upon. Confederate monuments are defaced with racist graffiti. Schools named after Thomas Jefferson are renamed after icons of the multiculturalist pantheon. Songs are outlawed. Flags are lowered. States are boycotted and pressured to conform.
Where does this stop? When will Southerners, in particular our youth, stand up, hold their ground, and say enough is enough? YWC is organizing on America's college campuses. We are fighting back against multiculturalist hypocrisy and intolerance. We invite you to join us.
Note: YWC News is a native Southerner and a proud graduate of an SEC college.
