University of Mississippi eGrove Daily Mississippian 2-25-2019 February 25, 2019 The Daily Mississippian Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline Recommended Citation The Daily Mississippian, "February 25, 2019" (2019). Daily Mississippian. 141. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/thedmonline/141 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Daily Mississippian by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | VOLUME 107, NO. 75 THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN STOOD UP TO EIGHT HATE BRAVE Eight black student- athletes knelt during the national anthem and reminded everyone what it means to be a Rebel. REBELSPHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA AND HAYDEN BENGE IMAGES COURTESY: OLE MISS ATHLETICS TOP: Devontae Shuler, Brian Halums, Bruce Stevens. MIDDLE: D.C. Davis, Franco Miller Jr., KJ Buffen. BOTTOM: Luis Rodriguez, Breein Tyree. echoing steps away in the Circle. began similar protests against police brutality SLADE RAND Brian Halums was the first to join Shuler in and racism in 2016. JUSTIN DIAL kneeling. Luis Rodriguez, KJ Buffen, D.C. Davis On Saturday, the Rebels had enough. [email protected] and Bruce Stevens followed shortly after, lowering “We’re just tired of these hate groups coming to evontae Shuler knelt for 63 seconds their heads as the national anthem continued to our school and portraying our campus, our actual on Saturday. The basketball team’s play. Breein Tyree started fidgeting. Glancing at university, as having these hate groups in our historic on-court protest was brief, teammates to his left and right, and then up at the school,” Tyree said in a postgame press conference. yet it overshadowed a day’s worth of jumbotron, Tyree said something under his breath National media often characterizes the Univer- Dneo-Confederate demonstrations happening at the and nodded to Franco Miller Jr. The pair took a sity of Mississippi as clinging to its past. In 2017, same time in the heart of campus. knee as the song came to a close, and Tyree held NBC wrote that “The Confederacy still haunts the The sophomore Rebel took to his knee as the his head up facing the crowd. campus of Ole Miss.” The same year, Huffington opening notes of “The Star Spangled Banner” These eight young men are the first Ole Miss Post wrote that “This Student Mocked The Con- played in The Pavillion. Twenty seconds later, five student-athletes to protest during the national federate Flag And Received Death Threats For It.” of his teammates had joined him. Before the song’s anthem in any sport. It is the first instance of In 2014, The New York Times wrote that “Racist end, two more players made the decision to drop male student-athletes at a major university down in silent opposition to the divisive rhetoric kneeling during the anthem since NFL players SEE REBELS PAGE 4 Confederate groups march, Ole Miss community responds Page 5 Page 8 thedmonline.com A DM editor followed one neo-Confederate activist and one Sam Abel, a counterprotester at Saturday’s rally, was arrested Pro-Confederate groups marched on campus this weekend. To counterprotester during Saturday’s protest. They talk about the and charged with disorderly conduct. She posted bond and is look back at this weekend’s coverage and for a recap of Confederacy, history and finding common ground. out of police custody. Saturday’s protest, see thedmonline.com. PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 25 FEBRUARY 2019 OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: SLADE RAND editor-in-chief [email protected] DEVNA BOSE managing editor [email protected] MEGAN SWARTZFAGER copy chief [email protected] TAYLOR VANCE news editor HADLEY HITSON GRIFFIN NEAL assistant news editors [email protected] JUSTIN DIAL sports editor JOSH CLAYTON assistant sports editor [email protected] CHRISTIAN JOHNSON photography editor KATHERINE BUTLER assistant photography editor [email protected] LIAM NIEMAN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor [email protected] HAYDEN BENGE design editor [email protected] ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA opinion and design editor OPINION [email protected] SARAH HENDERSON multimedia editor ANNIE SHARP LETTERS TO THE EDITOR online editor On Feb. 23, Oxford and of hate groups coming to campus. Please go elsewhere. cy, then you’re the problem. [email protected] Ole Miss were the venue for Oxford and making the city Like the Confederates and For people who oppose IVANA NGUYEN a pro-Confederate rally, or- and the school look bad, and their hatred, your antiquated participation trophies so social media editor ganized by Confederate 901, the players wanted to take mindset isn’t welcome on this greatly, there seems to be [email protected] located in Memphis, and the a stand. Tyree, I agree with campus. a lot of sympathy for peo- Hiwaymen, who brought a you and your team’s decision If you have more of a prob- ple who make it their dying ADVERTISING handful of Civil War nostal- to kneel during the national lem with kids taking a knee request to keep one in the SALES MANAGER gists to our great town. anthem. during the national anthem university’s Circle and a lot Rebecca Brown While the rally took place, Looking at social media than you do with white su- less energy dedicated to a [email protected] there was a basketball game tells a story of fans threaten- premacists choosing to seed group of kids who do things taking place in The Pavilion ing to never return to an Ole their vitriolic, nonsensical the right way. SALES ACCOUNT against Georgia. Miss event. I have a simple ideology in our great city, EXECUTIVES Prior to tipoff, multiple response to that low-hanging then you’re the problem. Randy Morgan is a senior Cameron Collins Ole Miss players took a knee threat: Please do. Please go If you have more a problem sociology major from Sam Dethrow during the national anthem. find another school. Please with faux disrespect of the Tupelo. Isaiah Pugh Breein Tyree said after find a school that accepts troops than you do with peo- Michael Rackers the game that he was tired bigotry and racism on its ple preaching white suprema- Morgan Stone S. GALE DENLEY This article is in response (52 years) and grew up in the federate rally and counterprotest come and what can happen STUDENT MEDIA CENTER to “Why do we cling to the Delta in the 1970s and ‘80s. I did on Saturday. It was shameful on should we backslide. The tear- Confederacy?” (Feb. 22) not see pervasive racism then, both sides. Does anyone believe ing down of historical monu- PATRICIA THOMPSON and I do not now. Racism is shouting and hurling insults ments is hate group action. Be Assistant Dean/Student Media The writer of this article suggests only brought to the forefront by will in any way make anything better than that. GREG BROCK that racism must be “torn away,” the media spotlighting isolated better? The past will never be Daily Mississippian Editorial giving a nod to all the protests events and making racist actions changed. We can only learn Buddy Lowery is a library Adviser and marches going on now. I am seem as though they are all from it. Let the statue stand specialist at the University of a lifelong resident of Mississippi around us. I witnessed the Con- as a reminder of how far we’ve Mississippi. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Daily Mississippian is published Mondays, Wednesdays, THE DAILY Thursdays and Fridays in print during the academic year, on THE DM NEWS TWITTER MISSISSIPPIAN days when classes are scheduled. New content is published @thedm_news online seven days a week. S. 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Letters from students should include grade classification and major; letters from THE DM SNAPCHAT faculty and staff should include title and the college, school or department where the person is employed. @thedm_news OPINION THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 25 FEBRUARY 2019 | PAGE 3 COLUMN Players’ kneeling reminiscent of Hawkins in 1982 of national media. There may be male student-athletes at a major inviting the nation come inside leader, I’m still a black man,” JOSHUA CLAYTON alumni pulling money or calling university to kneel during the and look at years of racial tension Hawkins told reporters in a press [email protected] for Kermit Davis to be fired, but national anthem, and while the in Mississippi. conference after the announce- So, here we are again. at the root of this is the universi- players making this statement We can see there are moments ment. “In my household, I The weekend marked anoth- ty’s most visible students’ expres- might have been unexpected, it in the history of Ole Miss sports wasn’t told to hate the flag, but er chapter in a story that has sion of sentiments shared by the shouldn’t come as a surprise that that serve as landmarks to major I did have history classes and engulfed Oxford and the entire majority of the student body, a Ole Miss athletes took a stand.