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Eight members of the Ole Miss basketball team knelt during the playing of the National Anthem, seemingly as a counter-protest to the pro-Confederate rally taking place on at the same time.

As the Rebels were preparing to host the Georgia Bulldogs for a 2:30 p.m. Central tipoff, almost 100 pro-Confederate supporters gathered in Oxford to protest past actions of the University of Mississippi to remove Confederate emblems and songs and to place plaques on certain monuments to provide historical context about people and actions being memorialized.

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And, as you can imagine, Twitter erupted with widespread reactions to the players' decision to kneel.

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