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WATCH: Mississippi governor signs bill to remove Confederate emblem from state fla
PBS ^ | 6/30/20 | Emily Wagster Pettus

Posted on 06/30/2020 4:54:24 PM PDT by Meatspace

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed the historic bill that takes the 126-year-old state flag out of law, immediately removing official status for the banner that has been a source of division for generations.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: braking; fla; sidebarabuse; tatereeves
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To: Meatspace

Ass hole


21 posted on 06/30/2020 5:19:15 PM PDT by albie
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To: reg45

22 posted on 06/30/2020 5:21:40 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: Meatspace

Next, get rid of the Ole Miss Rebels.


23 posted on 06/30/2020 5:23:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Skywise
And yay. Racism is over.

That was easy. Now everyone can go home, get a job and go to work.

24 posted on 06/30/2020 5:26:02 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: dfwgator

“Next, get rid of the Ole Miss Rebels.”

The moment a blue chip recruit objects to Rebel name, they will become the Ole Miss Magnolias.


25 posted on 06/30/2020 5:30:35 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: butlerweave

They will. The new flag will be put up to a vote. HOWEVER, if it’s rejected they will keep designing new flags until voters approve one. You’re not allowed to vote on keeping the old flag.


26 posted on 06/30/2020 5:35:39 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Meatspace

Now that the “EVIL Confederate Battle Flag” is gone the state of Mississippi will now become the most stable and every one richer than Midas, no longer at the bottom of every list.

No longer will New Mexico and Arkan-saw have as their Unofficial State mottoes...”Thank Heavens for Mississippi!” as Mississippi kept those two states from the bottom.

10 to 1 nothing will change, and the protestors will go on to till at new windmills.


27 posted on 06/30/2020 5:39:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“10 to 1 nothing will change, and the protestors will go on to till at new windmills.”

The protestors did not even have time to drive to Jackson.

The Mississippi Flag deal was done in the legislature in 12 hours.


28 posted on 06/30/2020 5:42:36 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

Football is King.


29 posted on 06/30/2020 5:43:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cyclotic; All

“Racism should have been over January 20, 2009.”

Exactly. But, you can NEVER appease these Leftists. Wherever ‘We The People’ HAVE given them an INCH, they’ve DEMANDED miles and miles and miles!

I don’t negotiate with Terrorists. Wish Mother Government felt the same way. :(

*SPIT*

P.S. We will NEVER have a ‘black’ President again...unless s/he is a Conservative. And I don’t see that happening either.


30 posted on 06/30/2020 5:44:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: dfwgator

From King Cotton to King Football

As I have said before.

Mississippi is controlled by 17 year old football players in Florida and Texas.


31 posted on 06/30/2020 5:45:40 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

Just burn everything down. Burn every state’s flag. Because isn’t everything rayciss?


32 posted on 06/30/2020 5:47:55 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Meatspace

That was fast.


How’s Obamacare repeal coming along? Where there is a will...


33 posted on 06/30/2020 5:50:18 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Meatspace

The Republic dies, not with a bang but a whimper.


34 posted on 06/30/2020 5:50:52 PM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: Skywise
Fascinating how fast government can actually work when they want to.
And yay. Racism is over.



Violence works.
35 posted on 06/30/2020 5:51:53 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Meatspace

They should replace it with a picture of George Floyd holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach! What a great guy!!


36 posted on 06/30/2020 5:53:56 PM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Meatspace

Sticks and stones may break my bones but flags will never hurt me.


37 posted on 06/30/2020 5:54:55 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Meatspace

And the commie revolution continues...


38 posted on 06/30/2020 5:55:01 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: reg45

So! What will replace the Confederate emblem. How about a single white star on a blue background.

Flag with Robert E Lee on it!


39 posted on 06/30/2020 5:55:36 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Batman11

“They should replace it with a picture of George Floyd holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach! What a great guy!!”

That is, SAINT George Floyd the Great, sir.


40 posted on 06/30/2020 5:55:57 PM PDT by Phillyred
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