Alabama students work to get term ‘Dixie’ removed

by: Dave Huber
Oct. 30, 2022
Source: The College Fix
11/01/2022

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A University of Alabama professor’s desire to get the word “Dixie” removed from the school fight song has resulted in a student-led effort to do same.

Cassandra Simon, a 22-year veteran professor in the UA School of Social Work, has never gone to a school football game because of the song, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Last year, Simon (pictured) and other UA black academics “officially” asked the school to get rid of Dixie as, according to historian Tammy Ingram, the term is “often seen as offensive for ‘evok[ing] a very nostalgic and romanticized view of slavery.'”

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