Ole Miss Basketball players take a knee during national anthem.

[lynintenn]

Six Ole Miss basketball players take a knee during the playing of the national anthem in their game against Georgia.
The SEC is not going to be happy.

[Lunabell]

1. If I could get down on these old knees,

I'd kneel too.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. I could get down on one knee. As long as enough players are still standing ...

... to help me get back up.

But I probably wouldn't qualify to be their equipment manager, much less a player.

[MaryMagdaline]

2. Good for them. Their futures are on the line. Brave of them.

[walkingman]

3. Maybe this will spread around the country. Kudo's to these brave athletes.

[rurallib]

5. here is a story from the hill

looks like it is tied to an effort to remove confederate statues on campus:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/431282-university-of-mississippi-basketball-players-kneel-on-the-court

good for those players - some coaches and admins can be real asses about this kind of thing.

[lynintenn]

6. James Meridith first AA to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962

I am old enough to remember seeing the protest on the television. Two people died.. Robert Kennedy sent hundreds of US marshals to escort Meridith to classes. I think Ole Miss has tried to overcome racism but it still remains. Oxford is probably the most liberal area in Mississippi but is still full of racial symbols. As they say there, hotty toddy.

[bobbieinok]

7. 30,000 fed troops, US Marshalls, national guardsmen called out over the riot

1 civilian killed was a French journalist, IIRC

[Kurt V.]

11. someone, i don't remember who, called the oxford riot the last battle of the civil war.

[bobbieinok]

8. In 1962 Charlayne Hunter Gault was 1 of 1st 2 African Americans to attend the U of GA

She later was a journalist for PBS Newshour.

I remember there being riots there too, but haven't found source to support this memory.

[bobbieinok]

13. In 1962 Charlayne Hunter Gault was 1 of 1st 2 African Americans to attend U of GA

[Kurt V.]

9. sending my best vibes to the young men. They're going to need it. Bravery

[DinahMoeHum]

10. A real Twitter storm has erupted, per the Clarion-Ledger. . .

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2019/02/23/kneeling-national-anthem-ole-miss-players-protest-confederate/2963495002/

[KG]

12. solidarnosc