i noticed the hammer and sickle dint bother them though
Posted on 07/25/2016 6:11:30 PM PDT by randita
Mississippi's state flag didn't last long on Broad Street in South Philadelphia.
City workers on Monday removed the red, white, and blue banner - which has the Confederate flag in the top left corner - from a lighting standard near Passyunk Avenue after dozens of protesters and some local residents asked for it to be taken down, city officials said.
It had been put up about two weeks ago among a collection of state flags on South Broad. It won't be put up again, said Brian Abernathy, a deputy managing director for the city, who said, "The Confederate flag raises strong feelings in our city."
Posts on social media showed a raucous reception when a man in a cherry picker pulled the flag down Monday afternoon. Protesters, some of whom had gathered around the flag demanding its removal, chanted: "Whose streets? Our streets!"
If Mississippians were upset about the decision, they weren't easy to find in Philadelphia.
Ouida Meruvia, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Democratic Party, said the state's delegation fully agreed with the city's decision. In fact, she said, the delegation had removed a flag placard designating where they sit on the convention floor for the same reasons.
"The Democratic Party in Mississippi does not advocate the Mississippi flag," she said. "A lot of delegates have come out against it."
Curley Clark, a Hillary Clinton delegate and president of the Jackson County, Miss., NAACP, said the flag was "an affront to the descendants of slaves" and "should be changed."
Vern Gavin, a 66-year-old Clinton delegate from Mississippi, also welcomed the flag's removal from Broad Street.
"I think it sends a statement that Mississippi needs to follow the Union and let go of the history of our state," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Well, I live in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, and for the rest of the week I will be flying the flag of the great State of Mississippi to honor the men and women who have died while fighting to defend their State and their country.
i noticed the hammer and sickle dint bother them though
That’s funny because that flag was adopted by democrats in power in Mississipi 1894.
They’ll allow Georgia to fly their which is the Confederate first national flag (:
Deo Vindice
They will never not hate us ping.
And effum!
:-)
Good point. Washington and Jefferson will be next. They are already destroying Jackson.
Good for Mississippi. I wish the Texas flag was not in there either.
“But the Soviet flags being paraded around Philadelphia is Okey-dokey.”
That’s right, the Soviet flag. The flag that symbolizes the mass murder of millions and the imprisonment of millions more.
If Hillary is able to steal the Presidency then I am all for a Texit strategy!
It’s actually an honor
Philly is the pug ugly stepchild of New York one step above poor Baltimore and two below New York and Boston
I was in New York a few weeks ago and noticed a cumulative flag display and noticed Miss flag flying fine
This is negroes and the other perpetually aggrieved more than Yankees to be fair
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