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By Chad Hunter
Times Record
FORT SMITH To a round of cheers, the Fort Smith School Board voted 7-0 to retire Southside High Schools Rebel mascot and Dixie fight song Monday night ...
Dixie and Johnny Reb and the Confederacy is negative symbolism for a lot of black people, he said. I cant speak for all black people, but it has a lot of negative symbolism to me.
A former police officer said his daughter who attends Southside is genuinely offended by the Rebel mascot ...
The use of Dixie as the schools fight song will be banned for the upcoming 2015-16 year, while the mascot will be phased out for the 2016-17 year. Other Rebel-related monikers like the Dixie Belles drill team, Confederette girls volleyball team and Johnny Rebs choir will also be changed, according to school district officials ...
http://arkansasnews.com/news/arkansas/fort-smith-school-board-ditches-rebel-mascot-dixie-fight-song
Hekate
(90,829 posts)Journeyman
(15,041 posts)On 10 April 1865, one day after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln addressed a White House crowd:
http://democraticthinker.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/abraham-lincoln-i-wish-i-was-in-dixie/
We have to be more diligent and not let the haters steal our possessions.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)but I'm rather partial to this version
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I lived in Ft Smith for a year and was shocked at the racism I, a white man, observed. It appeared to me that many locals lived as if it was the 1940s and not 2005.