So they want to make the Cowbell somehow racist?
The Cowbell was adopted because we beat that OM *** after a cow wandered on the field. Yet they wish in their tiny grey-clad hearts that it could be considered racist. Why? So we could be like them and be scrutinized for cherishing racist traditions?
To quote a recent NY Time article:
Ole Miss’s identity is intertwined with slavery and the Jim Crow era, partly because of the state’s history, but also because the school vigorously embraced Confederate symbols.
So yes... let's review shall we?
1962: OM riots against integration. Kennedy has to call in national guard.
1963: Meanwhile, MSU has to sneak out of town in the dead of night in order to compete against Loyola (Chicago).
1971: OM finally has first black athlete
1979: OM changes mascot from a student dressed in Civil War garb to a "disneyesque" Col. Reb costume.
1997: OM bans "sticks" from stadium... but really because they had Confederate battle flags attached to them.
2009: OM disallows the band to play Dixie due to students chanting "The South Shall Rise Again"
2010: OM abandons Col. Reb due to racist overtones and adopts black bear - promptly names him Rebel.
2012: OM - Anti-Obama riot
2014: OM renames Confederate Drive to Chapel Lane
2015: OM - Noose around statue of James Meredith
2016: OM students unfurl giant Mississippi flag in stadium in protest to the potential removal of Confederate battle flag
2017: OM begins attaching plaques to buildings recognizing they were built using slave labor
I'm sure there's plenty I left out, but you get the gist here. Ole Miss absolutely wants to cling to their past no matter how wrong it may be. And much like the NCAA investigation they're now under, they want to drag as many people as they can into the pit with them.