- ABC News
- June 6, 2020
Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin, who took part in a unity walk on the campus Saturday along with athletes and coaches from various sports as well as athletic administrators, said he was "proud to stand with his players" in the fight against racial injustice. "It's something that the football team and entire athletic department did together after listening to our players throughout the week about what we could do to support them," Kiffin told ESPN. "The important thing, though, is that this is just the start." Kiffin told ESPN that players made it abundantly clear that they wanted to see a Confederate monument on the Ole Miss campus moved. "After hearing their voices, I fully support them wanting that statue moved," Kiffin said. Earlier this year, university administrators, student leaders and faculty leaders had recommended that the marble statue of a saluting Confederate soldier be moved from its spot near the main administrative building to a Civil War cemetery in a...