Top lawmaker: Remove Confederate sign from Mississippi flag

AP ^ | June 22, 2015 | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and CLAIRE GALOFARO

[Alter Kaker]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A top Mississippi lawmaker said Monday that the Confederate battle emblem is offensive and needs to be removed from the state flag.

House Speaker Philip Gunn became the first top-tier Republican to call for a change in the flag, which has had the Confederate symbol in the upper left corner since Reconstruction.

"We must always remember our past, but that does not mean we must let it define us," Gunn, a leader in his local Baptist church, said in a statement. "As a Christian, I believe our state's flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed. We need to begin having conversations about changing Mississippi's flag."

Mississippi and Tennessee officials are grappling with whether to retain Old South symbols, even as South Carolina leaders are pushing to remove a Confederate battle flag that flies outside the statehouse there.

[VRWCmember]

Just replace the current state flag of Mississippi with this one:

[Right Brother]

Was the church shooter wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt? Was he waving one? Did he give a rebel yell as he opened fire? WTF is with this flag crap suddenly?

[Alter Kaker]

Just replace the current state flag of Mississippi with this one:

Historically accurate. That would accurately reflect the flag flown by Mississippi regiments at Vicksburg.

[kiryandil]

As a Christian, I believe our state's flag has become a point of offense that needs to be removed.

Hey - heterosexual marriage has become a point of offense that needs to be removed, you fracking GOPe brownshirt.

[kiryandil]

Wonder what Philip Gunn's tranny name is?

Moira Buttplug?

[bkopto]

[Grams A]

This is a bunch of krap. What happens when the muzzies start complaining about the U.S. flag? We already have California wanting to trash anything American and replace it with everything Mexican.

[Politicalkiddo]

These “top” politicians always seem to be at the bottom of everything else.

[kiryandil]

Was the church shooter wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt? Was he waving one? Did he give a rebel yell as he opened fire? WTF is with this flag crap suddenly?

It's The Narrative.

Boy, are these lying fanatics going to be surprised when they get a load of OUR "narrative"...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I swear, our elected officials are like a bunch of teenage girls and Justin Bieber’s latest hit.

[bigmak007]

Indeed. Tell them to get rid of the Mexican and ISIS flags on our soil first. Oh, and don’t forget the Rainbow.

[Ray76]

Remove this flag

[dowcaet]

Funny how Bubba and Algore had no problem with being identified as “southern” boys in 1992. Both men had their political lives shaped and mentored by well known segregationists. Bill by Senator William Fulbright and of course Algore by his dad Senator Algore Sr.

[umgud]

Probably ought to bulldoze all the confederate graves too./s

You can’t do enough to placate these folks........ never enough.

[Johnny Stevenson]

It’s about destroying anything, any symbol, any flag that traditional Americans could rally around.

[Blue Jays]

Conservatives play into the Liberal "rules" at every turn.
Republican legislators are falling over themselves to see history eradicated and components of a flag removed.
So how many "Liberal Points" does this earn us overall? Good grief...Republicans desperately need to develop backbones.

[Bratch]

[Drew68]

Was the church shooter wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt? Was he waving one? Did he give a rebel yell as he opened fire? WTF is with this flag crap suddenly?

He had a rebel flag front license plate on his car.

[Gator113]

Indeed.... THAT is our new national flag.