Football fans at Southside High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas have been cheering for the Rebels and Singing Dixie for more than 50 years.
But that long time tradition is about to end, according to television station KFSM.
A school board committee passed a resolution that will ban the school’s fight song – as well as the Rebel mascot.
Fort Smith educators said the song and the mascot are perceived symbols of racism. Here’s the statement they posted on the district’s Facebook page:
- “Giving great consideration to the continuing impact of perceived symbols of racism on the community, state and nation, the Fort Smith Public School Board convened as a Committee of the Whole tonight and passed a motion to discontinue the use of “Dixie” as the Southside High School fight song in the 2015-2016 school year, and to phase out the use of the Rebel as the Southside mascot in the 2016-2017 school year.”
So starting next year – the students will no longer be able to wish they were in the land of cotton.
Folks around Fort Smith aren’t too keen on the idea of removing either the mascot or the song. Many posted their extreme displeasure on the district’s social networking sites.
“It appears to be a knee jerk reaction influenced by current events,” one reader wrote. “Removing flags or historical symbols because they may offend a number of people is a slippery slope.”
I’m curious, though, about this idea of perceived symbols of racism. It really is subjective, isn’t it?
I mean – I could perceive the Fort Smith School Board to be a bunch of dim-witted, dingleberry lefties who don’t have the sense God gave a goose.
But I could be mistaken.
However — in this case, I’m more than likely right.
And I’m not just whistling Dixie.
“I’m curious, though, about this idea of perceived symbols of racism. It really is subjective, isn’t it?”
Depending on the jew agenda.