Mississippi Is Poised to Replace State Flag Featuring Confederate War Emblem

that he will sign a bill to change the flag. “The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new state flag,” he wrote. “The argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself and it’s time to end it. If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it.”

Saturday’s vote is the result of a widespread campaign to pressure the legislature to change the flag, following a national call for racial justice after weeks of Black Lives Matter national protests. On Thursday morning, a group including college football coaches and Christian ministers occupied the Mississippi Capitol to lobby for the flag to be changed.

A week earlier, the Southeastern Athletic Conference, which includes Ole Miss and Mississippi State, warned that it will not hold championship events in the state until the flag is changed. A day later, the NCAA issued a similar warning. “There is no place in college athletics or the world for symbols or acts of discrimination and oppression,” NCAA Board of Governors Chairman Michael Drake said in a statement.

Of course they have

OK

Maybe they should replace it with the last thing the confederacy waved, a white flag

with what

And it only took till 2020 🥳

AQUELLO QUE NOS DEJO LA CANTANTE DE ROXETTE EN INGLÉS Y EN ESPAÑOL ANTES DE MORIR PARA ESTOS TIEMPOS

yelyahwilliams

Great! Prejudice ways seem to be passing away! This is the best thing to witness & see hate leaving & Making America Great! All we need to remember is in November to vote for Hope!

I hope they burn the capital to the ground, the people voted and said NO to changing it, now politicians are going against the vote, I hope they lynch them all.

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