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THE DAILY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 | VOLUME 107, NO. 11 MISSISSIPPIAN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | SERVING OLE MISS AND OXFORD SINCE 1911 See pages 5-12 for a special section FOOTBALL IS BACK. ahead of the Rebels’ home opener Lecture Branch vies for Miss America title series BRIAN BARISA [email protected] begins with ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.–Asya Branch, Miss Mississippi 2018, is in Atlantic City ‘Protests in competing to become Miss America. The goal of her platform is helping children Football’ with incarcerated parents — something that is close to SLADE RAND home for her. [email protected] “My platform could have been anything under the sun. Regular season NFL football It is more beneficial when returned this week and so did it is something that you can the widespread controversy relate to, and my platform surrounding players’ right to — empowering children of protest. incarcerated parents — I A Nike promo released chose because my father has Monday for the 30th been incarcerated for half of anniversary of the “Just my life,” Branch said. Do It” campaign featured Her father, Anthony Branch, former San Francisco 49ers plead guilty to burglary, quarterback Colin Kaepernick larceny of a dwelling, one calling on viewers to “Believe count of armed robbery and in something. Even if it means two counts of kidnapping in sacrificing everything.” This 2012. Ever since the age of has reignited the national ten, Asya Branch has grown conversation about players up with only her mother and kneeling or otherwise older brothers. She said living PHOTO: BRIAN BARISA protesting during the pre- without her father was a Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch prepares for her day’s interviews at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. game national anthem. challenge. me,” she said. him in person until a month supporter. When he gets out, However, before Kaepernick “It was different. I was Branch has kept in touch ago, when she saw him for the we are going to watch the tweeted an image of Nike’s definitely a daddy’s girl, and with her father through letters first time in three years. video of me winning Miss new ad on Monday afternoon, all the time, I was glued to his and pictures, but she has rarely “My dad is my biggest professor Charles Ross was hip. It was a huge change for gotten the chance to talk to fan. My dad is my biggest SEE BRANCH PAGE 15 already preparing to lead a lunchtime talk on campus about race, society and professional football. ASSOCIATED PRESS Ross, director of African American studies and a professor of history, began the Court says group can’t stop contextualization Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s weekly Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture series on JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A chancery court, weeks after plaques to provide historical Appeals on Tuesday upheld Wednesday with a discussion Confederate heritage group has Ole Miss administrators background, including on a the dismissal, saying Sons of titled “Protests in Football.” no special status to try block announced the university was Confederate soldier statue that Confederate Veterans has “no “One of the reasons I study the University of Mississippi taking steps to distance itself has stood for generations in a interest separate from or in sports is that sports illustrate from adding historical context from plantation-era images on prominent spot on campus. excess of that of the general a lot of aspects of human to Old South symbols, a state the Oxford campus. A chancery judge moved the public” in the university’s behavior,” Ross said. appeals court said Tuesday. In an effort to promote racial lawsuit to state circuit court, actions. Ross originally planned to Sons of Confederate diversity, the school renamed and a circuit judge dismissed it “This matter affects the Veterans sued the university a street that had been called in March 2017. in September 2014 in Confederate Drive and installed The Mississippi Court of SEE SPORTS PROTESTS PAGE 14 SEE CONTEXT PAGE 15 PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: COLUMN SLADE RAND editor-in-chief On Nike’s new campaign: ‘Just Don’t Do It’ [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor developed that mythical entity, Nike is trying to convince the dilutes his message, as well. [email protected] a corporate conscience. very people most likely to have As Fannie Lou Hamer For years, Nike’s image has boycotted its products in the famously said, intersectionality DAVID NOWICKI been tainted by its history of past to go out and buy new means that “nobody’s free until copy chief human rights abuses. In fact, ones, instead. everybody’s free.” [email protected] groups such as United Students Corporate co-optation of The cause Kaepernick is most Against Sweatshops and the progressive movements is closely identified with — the BLAKE ALSUP Worker Rights Consortium nothing new. When Mississippi protest of police shootings and news editor have spent decades exposing workers tried to organize a support for the Black Lives TAYLOR VANCE the company’s poverty wages, union at the Nissan factory in Matter movement — cannot BRITTANY BROWN long hours, unsafe conditions, Canton, the company cracked be divorced from supporting assistant news editors use of child labor and other down and was eventually found workers’ right to unionize or [email protected] JAZ BRISACK unfair and dangerous practices. guilty of violating the workers’ opposing sweatshop working [email protected] When Nike factory workers civil right to form a union. But conditions. All forms of JUSTIN DIAL around the world have tried instead of respecting workers’ oppression are intimately and sports editor Corporations care about one to unionize, the company rights, Nissan began showering inseparably linked together and BEN MILLER thing: profit. They do not want has responded by closing up money on organizations must be fought collectively. assistant sports editor to be your friend. They are shop and relocating to other including the NAACP, the There is no ethical [email protected] not trying to make the world countries with even weaker Veterans of the Mississippi consumption under a better place. They are not labor protection laws. Civil Rights Movement, capitalism. Companies will CHRISTIAN JOHNSON dedicated to justice or freedom. The Kaepernick the Mississippi Center for ruthlessly seek to improve photography editor They are only interested in announcement successfully Justice, the Medgar and their own bottom lines at the [email protected] making money. diverted attention away from Myrlie Evers Foundation and cost of human rights. But we From that point of view, anti-sweatshop protests and the Mississippi Civil Rights should at least stop patting LIAM NIEMAN Nike’s new advertising refocused it on protests of a Museum. In exchange for the them on the back when they lifestyles editor campaign featuring Colin very different kind, as racists cash, these groups stayed silent try to hide their shame behind [email protected] Kaepernick is a smart move. burn shoes and take scissors about their benefactor’s union- a mask of social justice. However, Nike’s sponsorship to socks. By adding the face of busting behavior. HAYDEN BENGE of Kaepernick doesn’t mean an internationally respected Unfortunately, Nike’s Jaz Brisack is a senior general design editor that the company has suddenly activist to its advertisements, sponsorship of Kaepernick studies major from Oxford. [email protected] ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor [email protected] SARAH HENDERSON online editor [email protected] IVANA NGUYEN social media editor [email protected] ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Rebecca Brown [email protected] SALES ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Sofi Ash Cameron Collins Sam Dethrow Isaiah Pugh Michael Rackers S. GALE DENLEY STUDENT MEDIA CENTER PATRICIA THOMPSON Assistant Dean/Student Media Daily Mississippian Faculty Adviser FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Daily Mississippian is published Mondays, Wednesdays, THE DM NEWS TWITTER THE DAILY Thursdays and Fridays in print during the academic year, on @thedm_news MISSISSIPPIAN days when classes are scheduled. New content is published online seven days a week. 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