Video: Ole Miss Students React to State Flag Vote

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OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI) -The University of Mississippi is the latest battleground in the debate over the state flag, and as WCBI’s Allie Martin reports, there are strong opinions among students, one day after a vote on the issue.

In the shadow of the Mississippi State flag, two members of the Ole Miss Student Senate were talking about the piece of cloth and what it represents.

“The Confederate history is ingrained in the University of Mississippi.”

“The flag does not represent our state wholly, or equally.”

Soper and Wright took part in the meeting Tuesday night, when the student senate voted 33 to 15 to ask the University of Mississippi to remove the state flag from campus.

Maggie Marshall is studying business management, and she says the state flag has become a big issue to the student body.

“Some students don’t feel safe with the flag , and what it represents to them. I think the most important thing is to create a safe environment for everybody and if one person doesn’t feel safe with the flag I think that’s something that needs to be addressed.”

At least one student, who is active with the N Double A C P, hopes the state flag, and other Confederate symbols, like this monument honoring Civil War dead, will eventually be removed.

“Things like that deserve to be in a museum, because it doesn’t support what’s going on right now, so I would say, it doesn’t stop here, there are so many things on campus that show white supremacy.”

Still, those who support keeping the flag flying aren’t deterred. Soper, is circulating a petition calling for a campus wide vote on the issue. In Oxford Im Alie Martin WCBI News.