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Top lawmaker: Remove Confederate sign from Mississippi flag
AP ^
| June 22, 2015
| EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Posted on 06/22/2015 9:35:31 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: confederate; flag; mississippi; rebel
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To: Alter Kaker
Just replace the current state flag of Mississippi with this one:
To: Alter Kaker
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?
To: VRWCmember
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.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:39:48 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
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.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:40:12 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: VRWCmember
Wonder what Philip Gunn's tranny name is?
Moira Buttplug?
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:42:50 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: VRWCmember
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:43:12 PM PDT
by
bkopto
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: Alter Kaker
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.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:43:48 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Alter Kaker
These “top” politicians always seem to be at the bottom of everything else.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:44:47 PM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
("Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear..."- Luke 11:46)
To: 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? It's The Narrative.
Boy, are these lying fanatics going to be surprised when they get a load of OUR "narrative"...
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:45:41 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: Alter Kaker
I swear, our elected officials are like a bunch of teenage girls and Justin Bieber’s latest hit.
To: kiryandil
Indeed. Tell them to get rid of the Mexican and ISIS flags on our soil first. Oh, and don’t forget the Rainbow.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:48:05 PM PDT
by
bigmak007
(They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
To: Alter Kaker
Remove this flag
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:49:31 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: bkopto
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.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:49:35 PM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: Alter Kaker
Probably ought to bulldoze all the confederate graves too./s
You can’t do enough to placate these folks........ never enough.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:50:12 PM PDT
by
umgud
(When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
To: Right Brother
It’s about destroying anything, any symbol, any flag that traditional Americans could rally around.
To: Right Brother
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.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:51:53 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: bkopto
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:56:08 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: 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?He had a rebel flag front license plate on his car.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:59:18 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: VRWCmember
Indeed.... THAT is our new national flag.
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posted on
06/22/2015 9:59:45 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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