Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Roberts. And as always, I am your good friend and host, Steve Robertson here in the early morning hours of Maroon Friday. By the time you hear this, I will likely be on my way to our capital city. Got some business to attend to down there. So I'm trying to get all this stuff done before I go. Don't have to get up too early,

but at the same time, too, I didn't want to leave you guys with an abbreviated show. And to be honest with

you, I don't know that I'm ready to go to bed yet. I don't know that I'm ready to sleep. It has been a

very, very heavy evening in the state of Mississippi.

The day kind of began with the IHL board approving

Ole Miss' request to move the Confederate Monument.

I understand they plan to move that out near the

the cemetery that contains the graves of the university graves.

And if you don't know that story, I would suggest you familiarize yourself with that.

That seems to be appropriate.

And I understand they're going to have some security measures in place to kind of keep people from going in and tearing down the statue.

And my attitude about

that has always been is you know it is their statue it is their problem uh they should deal with it

as best they could i have long been an advocate that um i don't know that you can whitewash history

but at the same time too i don't know that if we need these, you know, these monuments of,

you know, of a time that we shouldn't be very proud of, to be quite honest with you. There are so

much about Mississippi that I love, and I love Mississippi dearly when I left Mississippi and I moved

Louisiana I felt it was my responsibility to defend Mississippi against

anybody that ever had anything negative to say but there are some things in

our history that are very, very difficult to defend.

I don't think a lot of that is worth celebrating.

And I'm not going to get very political today, but I'm going to talk about some things

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