Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from state flag

- Mississippi lawmakers have voted to remove a symbol of the pro-slavery Confederacy from the Deep South state’s flag, the latest symbol of racism to come down amid outrage at the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minnesota.

“We are better today than we were yesterday,” Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, who authored the bill that passed on Sunday, told the non-profit news organization Mississippi Today. “Today, the future has taken root in the present. Today, we and the rest of the nation can look on our state with new eyes, with pride and hope.”

Symbols of the failed rebellion were erected throughout the South during the years of racial segregation and violence known as Jim Crow, and despite years of progress and civil rights for Black Americans, many states resisted removing them.

SharonBernstein The crescent moon is a symbol of the oppressive religion of Islam, which enslaved millions upon millions of people Can't wait for it to be removed from all the flags!

SharonBernstein Amazing that local lawmakers could take such a step. Acknowledging racism of a 2-century? old symbol. Congratulations. things like this show how great the US can be. It reminds me of Merkel asking for forgiveness to the jewish people on behalf of the German government

SharonBernstein Only 100 years too late. Nice.

SharonBernstein Symbol of racism 'the police killing' Hey PressTitutes, ONE bad police doesn't represent the whole police force! Your accusation is BS! AllLivesMatter BlueLivesMatter ProtectTheBlue IStandWithThePolice

SharonBernstein About time 242 years later, c'mon

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SharonBernstein I dont think Tom Cotton will be very happy with this ,

SharonBernstein Reuters quickly devolving into RT

SharonBernstein take a way a flag who is there since ever to satisfy masked armed looters and antifa...this is what they call a democracy?

SharonBernstein 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,...' Any mention of a god is ILLEGAL ie un-Constitutional

SharonBernstein Has trump chimed in yet?

SharonBernstein How is it a symbol of racism?

SharonBernstein It is neither a racist nor romantic southern history. It is the symbol of traitors to the United States.

SharonBernstein I don't know how there were still flags with these symbols

SharonBernstein Whoa there Reuters! Just putting it out in a headline the Confederate flag is racist? Objectivity is scary. You know what they say about neutrality and oppression — gimme summa that sweet, neutral “controversial” or “racial baggage”. Maybe the flag is just “economically anxious”.

SharonBernstein George who?

SharonBernstein I hope the people of MS burn down the capitol, the people voted and said no to changing it, the politicians went against the will of the people I hope they are all lynched.

SharonBernstein Better headline... republican lawmakers.... there are good people on both sides

SharonBernstein About time!

SharonBernstein When the CCPvirus pandemic the golbal, there was no a human demonstration. CCP tortured & murder in HK, not human demonstration, when the American police killed an American by mistake, the whole human demonstration. This problem: who is messing up democracies behind them.

SharonBernstein bravo ! they have decided on a new MississippiFlag that unites rather than divides ..

SharonBernstein Imagine one of the German states would have a swastica in it’s flag..... Right

SharonBernstein Millions in people's homes anyways,I even own one in Canada.

SharonBernstein Right thing to do and should have done it years ago.

SharonBernstein Wow, ive always heard Mississippi kinda went in hard on the whole biblebelt racism schtick, so im surprised the whole state didnt implode when this was offered up for vote.

SharonBernstein Yugoslavia is back!

SharonBernstein Confederate emblem is a symbol of racism ?

SharonBernstein This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love.

SharonBernstein Not a symbol of racism.

SharonBernstein France cheers

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SharonBernstein Pray for wisdom from GOD ... open minded..then follow what he tells you considering also those losing a war now losing their heritage.

SharonBernstein Ohhh the addition of a swastika and middle finger got out-voted 3-2?

SharonBernstein Good!

SharonBernstein Ah, finally some GOOD news today.

SharonBernstein 2020 do be feeling like 1960 🤦🏻‍♂️ bout damn time!

SharonBernstein Kneel to the mob.

Since Trump don’t like loosers they should put this one

so you are going to use the french flag?

So it will be an upside down Dutch flag? 🇳🇱

Mississippi needs to ban the Democratic Party from operating in their state as well. After all, it was Democrats who forced Mississippi to secede from the Union, and fight the Civil War... ...ALL TO PRESERVE SLAVERY.

I hope the people of MS burn down the capitol, the people voted and said no to changing it, the politicians went against the will of the people I hope they are all lynched.

Live look at public response

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And so the U.S. Civil War ends, June 28, 2020....

Great now the world can relax !!!!!!

If you look at all the state flags you can see which states were just salty AF about having lost the war and put passive aggressive references to the Confederacy on their flags.

Go back to the MagnoliaFlag. Piss off TheDemocrats. MississippiFlag

*GOP lawmakers

Republicans tearing down another Democrat Party Symbol...

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