At least six Ole Miss players took a knee while “The Star-Spangled Banned” played before the game against the University of Georgia.
Several University of Mississippi basketball players kneeled on the court during the national anthem to protest a pro-Confederate rally nearby on Saturday.
Before the game against the University of Georgia began at The Pavilion in Oxford, Mississippi, at least six Ole Miss players took the knee while the “The Star-Spangled Banner” played. The incident was captured on video and shared to social media.
Neal McCready, of Rivals.com, shared images of the protest to Twitter and explained that the demonstration was in response to a “pro-Confederate (whatever that is) rally on Oxford’s Square today, about a mile from The Pavilion at Ole Miss, where Ole Miss is playing Georgia this afternoon.”
The Ole Miss official athletics nickname is ” Rebels, ” which emerged in 1936 after it was selected from over 200 proposed entries submitted to southern sports writers as a part of a contest sponsored by the school’s newspaper, The Mississippian .
