Larry Eubanks of Star waves the current Mississippi state flag as he sits before the front of the Capitol, Saturday, June 27, 2020, in Jackson, Miss. While a supporter of the current flag, Eubanks says he would hope lawmakers would allow a proposed flag change to be decided by the registered voters.
The state had faced mounting pressure to change its flag during the past month amid international protests against racial injustice in the United States. Loud applause erupted as lawmakers hugged each other in the Senate with final passage. Even those on the opposite side of the issue also hugged as an emotional day of debate drew to a close.
Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn, who is white, has pushed for five years to change the flag, saying that the Confederate symbol is offensive. The House passed the bill 91-23 Sunday afternoon, and the Senate passed it 37-14 later. That dynamic changed in a matter of weeks as an extraordinary and diverse coalition of political, business, religious groups and sports leaders pushed to change the flag.
Business groups said the banner hinders economic development in one of the poorest states in the nation. Legislators put the Confederate emblem on the upper left corner of Mississippi flag in 1894, as whites were squelching political power that African Americans gained after the Civil War.
NewStateFlag Look at all the likes.... that’s your gullible propagandized group when they learn who is really the evil side..they will be exposed as the cretins of society. Enjoy your stupidity! Study Lincoln the Lie. 😂 thé fabricated président..
About damn time.
They are other Confederate inspired state flags that also need to be changed.
As a black man I think it to the saying that we give in to the demands of terrorists who are destroying our country we are going to bring change we should do it for the right reasons not this one
Stupid move! Chicken shit move!
This should have been voted on by the people.
Yes they did it with zero votes also.
Now can we vote out this Mississippi Senator that “joked” about attending a public hanging? SERIOUSLY?
Honestly, if you don’t support this, you are a racist straight up. OMG
Only 7 of them left. I will not be restocking this item once sold out.
Dixiecrats are happy. What about southern pride. Confederate flag looks nothing like the one shown. Round and bars for keeping the slaves.
This excessive submission to blacks will put whites on the corner and this will generate tensions between the two 'races'. The African American Lives Matter carnival will backfire.
Until they get their new flag, what are they going to fly? They should take a leaf out of Romania's book. When the Ceauceszcus fell, the people cut out the Communist symbol from the flag. It was this 🇷🇴 with a hole in the yellow band. They should cut out the confederate part!! 👌
Does the flag change make Mississippi Chile or Yugoslavia?
ksprnews just reported that 'In God We Trust ' must be on the new Mississippi flag. What about separation of church and state? What about freedom of religion? This statement has no place on the state flag.
Resistance is futile
lol Why are people soo keen to keep a flag of a 5-year fuck up?
GeorgeTakei Bout damn time
Better headline: 'Go to hell, Dixie'
I’m for this. But it’s amazing that this was easier to do than holding police accountable for their actions.
So I guess Saudi Arabia and Israel flags are next
dannyhaledanny1 why not let the ppl vote
About damn time!! Imagine going to an HBCU in Jackson MS and literally down the street you had to see this flag.. and this was in the 90's! So yea.. bout time it be changed-But them die hard racist Mississippians are mad AF about their precious racist flag being changed
Nice to see Mississippi confirming its status of worst state in the country.
They sold their racist beliefs down the river all so they could field marginally competitive football teams in the SEC.
GeorgeTakei God forbid we have anything controversial in the world.
How about this🇷🇺
TrishaW04 As long as that's what the voters of Mississippi wanted then the Mississippi legislators did the right thing. If the Mississippi legislators are going against the wishes of the voters that put them in office that's a different issue all together.
Republican legislators and Republican governor vote to remove controversial Confederate emblem from state flag.
realDonaldTrump Trump just got knee capped by Mississippi with his White Power Tweet. Trump resign and go to the dust bin of history.
FFS...get rid of the Confederate flag but add 'in God we Trust'. Oh the irony.
kinsellawarren Now it will look like the Russian Flag. How appropriate. 👏👏👏
Yes, a Republican run state! AP failed to mention.
TheAndyKatz U mean the Republican run legislator 👊🏻🇺🇸u forgot to mention that it your headline
About time 🇺🇸
It should have been removed a long time ago we as Black People have the same right as any other I mean not only the Black people but other people of different cultures and GOD did not say let there just be white people when he returns he is looking at us as one color
NewStateFlag Suggestions an all white flag for surrender with a yellow stripe for cowardess. Or an all black flag with BLM on it with we submit written on the bottom.
What do the people think about the Removal is what I haven’t heard anything about.
What they going to change it to the rainbow flag 🙈
I’m curious and concerned as to why some politicians did not vote in favor for this.
tonymess Of course they did. Kneel for the mob, boys.
By an overwhelmingly majority Republican House, Senate and Governorship. You forgot to say that, AP.
JerryDunleavy Sad. Don’t participate in the hysteria. The least you could’ve done is wait. People are neurotic.
GovJVentura They get rid one one problematic flag and want to replace it with another... there’s supposed to be separation between church and state but they want in god we trust on the new flag...
GovJVentura
I'm surprised it took Mississippi this long to do this.
krgv
Without the confederate flag isn’t it just the Russian flag?
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The politics of contesting who will be the best in pretending race counts to nothing but this is only charging the cog. Come down to earth & accept there is freedom & respect that God created people in his image, black, white & in between who are reasonable & unreasonable.
Thank you for surprising us, Mississippi
GaydosKTAR Weird that this article from NBC News neglects to name the party responsible for passage of this measure. GOP dominates the Mississippi House 74-45 and the Senate 36-16, and the governor is a Republican. Yet the GOP never appears in this article. Odd.
So is their flag going to look like France or are they going to insert another emblem? (Better)
Can they replace with a rainbow and unicorn symbol? It will help with my anxiety.
It's about time racists!
This has not helped the systemic racism and economic poverty 1 damn bit.
TheAndyKatz “Breaking: Mississippi legislators finally remove racist symbol from state flag 150 years behind schedule.” There, fixed it for you.
GovJVentura Why the fck does it have to have In God We Trust on it. Nobody what anyone tells you, we were not founded as a Christian nation.
Next to come down is that Stone mountain Confederate Memorial Carving. Georgia shouldn't be allowed to host any national events until this monument to traitors is removed. RemoveStoneMountain NoAntiBlackRacism FBA B1
Finally
GovJVentura So the Mississippi Flag is now the flag of the Pan-Slavic.
Geez, it's about time!
GovJVentura Why? People have lost what mind they had.
GovJVentura They stole $7 billion from us and now we’re arguing about flags
What none of you virtue signalers dare grasp, is the the North was wrong in its invasion and in its multiple violations of the Constitution. The South was wrong to enslave humans. But it fought a government now intent to enslave in more insidious ways.
Mississippi finally gets over that very low bar of human decency! BlackLivesMatter
Its about time!!!!
CNN ABC NYTIMES WASHINGTONPOST MSNBC CBSNEWS FOXNEWS BBCWorld Reuters CONGRATULATIONS AND PRAISED THE LORD! MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATION VOTED TO GET RID OF THEIR RACIST FLAG! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉 WAY TO GO! THIS I AM SURE WILL 'NOT'GET A THANK YOU FROM TRUMP
dam who let the mississippi flag have a little bit of the confederacy as a treat?
Oh! 🎉but that is setting the bar on the damn ground.
Republican state legislature & Republican governor remove Democratic Party's Confederate emblem.
If you replace 'controversial' with 'traitorous' your headline will be more accurate. WordsMatter
lmao
AP left out white supremacist Democrats adopted the flag, and Republican legislators and Governor are removing the Confederate symbol. Convenient.
All problems now solved! Awesome!
I'm honestly shocked by this. Surprised they'd do it. I figure Mississippi is the last state to actually change anything like this. Maybe there really is hope for other states to follow suit.
So the group of people that are supporting ancestors who stood us against the unity of the US is the same group that’s calling others traitors? In what world is that coherent?
Awesome! Start...
Only 160 years late, too!
Finally the GOP confederacy will be nailed in its coffin and every vestige of the treasonous south will be pulled down. The union army won the civil war and the confederacy lost. Get over it.
davestewart4444 WTF must the new flag have the words 'In god we trust'? Likely a quarter of the states residents don't believe in ANY god, or not the Christian god they think this is referring to. Why put something else divisive on there at all. Start clean, not with built in limits.
Anybody gonna talk about Georgia now?
🤷🏽♂️🖕🏽that flag
So, it's just going to be a jumble of the Russia Flag? Or an upside down Netherlands flag?
maggieNYT Finally! June 2020 and we see the last State to remove the confederate flag from its State Capital. BlackLivesMattters BLM BLMprotest
That will make them pretty much France?
Republicans in Mississippi. There fixed your story.
Executive order deporting blacks , free travel expenses to their home, Africa is a beautiful place and they don’t have confederate shit around and they use the same phrase, black life matters, can’t be better for them
Let’s not get too excited until we see the new flag 😂
Well done. 👏
NooseCAR couldn't force people to wave the flag they tolerate. Neither can any government. My flag remains Carillon-Sacre'-Coeur.
bansisharma Ok, so now the Confederate Flag has been removed from the South Carolina state capital, the Mississippi state flag, NASCAR & the Dukes of Hazard. Nothing left to bitch about right? jk- the liberal agitators will NEVER stop bitching until they take over completely.
I got no problem with it, they voted to remove it. It’s their state they control what flag they want for their state.. Those of us that don’t live there really have no say in it..
Once all the statues have been torn down and once the NFL gives Kap a chance then is that the time we talk intelligently about black on black shootings in historically democratic voting cities. Just curious Jesse and Al. Have mouth will travel unless it doesn’t fit the scenario
What took them so long.Mamamia This cancerous flag should be buried to the ocean.
maggieNYT Ignore the lib media. They’re not useless, they’re destructive. If they were only useless we’d all be better off, but they’re not. They’re committed liars and disinformation specialists with an agenda to destroy any attachment to the truth.
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Trying to erase history. What about the founding fathers who owned slaves?
Finally!
Now do Hawaii
Change it out and put the stare seal in its place. Done
thinkkimthink It's a start
vancouverboomer Mississippi LEAPS from the 1860s into the 1960s. You’re still 50 years behind. Want a medal?
'...white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.' Collectively attributing a crime or a characteristic of a racial nature to a group without proof for each individual is a racist act. Stereotyping is racism. AP must apologize.
rolandsmartin This guys whole existence is grounded in racism. Without it, what will he be? He feels nurtured like a broke dick dog licking where his nuts use to be; remembering the good ole days. He'll mentally impotent and no amount of Viagra will help him.
Removing that Dixie emblem from that flag ain’t gon’ do shit for the racism and hate in the hearts of racist Alabamians
Racism solved!
lookner Yay yay. Glad that they did this. Bottom line it shouldn't have ever been on there in the first place.
I am glad, I wish they would have put it on the ballot and let the people of Mississippi decide.
At least 80 years overdue
This is ok. Tearing down washington and jefferson are not.
Interesting. No mention Who is in control of the Senate & the legislative body in Mississippi......
good. now let's move on. like who cares!?. so many bigger things to tackle. let's not waste any more time on relics.
Not sure why they have to put 'In God We Trust' on the flag.
About time.
GeorgeTakei There might yet be hope for this country.
That is how a civilized country is supposed to work. Vote for people who represent your interests, not tare down statues that you don't like. Those people should be in jail for destroying government property.
Thoughts and prayers.
'Controversial'? Say it plainly: RACIST.
I wonder what the people of Mississippi want to be placed on their state flag?🇺🇸
If they take the emblem off, you're left with either the French flag on it's side or the flag of former Yugoslavia. Maybe come up with something original.
And what party controls the legislature in MS? Asking for a friend... KAG
Another Battle loss. Powerfoward and CHANGE
Removing a flag means nothing if your HEART is still tied to what it represents.
Flag gonna look like the zFrench flag
Looking like homeboy didn't get the memo
Uhhhh rebel emblem ? Racist emblem
I just hope everyone sleeps better dreaming about the 40 million enslaved across the world when they're in a taco bell coma that was delivered to their domicile and ordered on an iPad. The oppression in this country is disgusting but newflagnewme What a bunch of twats
Mississippi. A whole other conversation piece.
Bow Down Dumba$$es.
By a Republican House, Senate, and Governor
maggieNYT Are they going to still show re-runs of The Dukes Of Hazard?
Hope you offer an exchange program - turn in the old racist one for the new one. Then make it against the law to publicly display the old flag on public streets & buildings. Classify the old flag as a racist/terrorist symbol.
2020 is hindsight.
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GeorgeTakei Fabulous news! America!
Hype Cave Pandering!!!!
TubbsShow Idiots.
Did the legislators ask their constituents or just bend to the mob?
If I were to give you $10,000, what would you spend it on? Food? Clothes ? Your kids? Credit Card Debts? Student Loans? Family? Medical bills? Student Loans? Giving to charity? I'm gonna bless a few people who Like & Retweet. (Must be following me so I can DM you)
maggieNYT what took so long?
So if you don’t see it does that mean it’s no longer there ?
maggieNYT Has Trump weighed in?
About fucking time!
bevdevwarrior Southern nutcases still harbor the hope that slavery and universal racism will make a roaring comeback. I haven't spoken to my family in decades, but some of them would love it. They wanted to blame all societal ills on black people.
RealCandaceO must be outraged by this
Ridiculous
Just Awesome 👏 TheView
HOUmanitarian Bout time!! 🍾🍾🍾
People will still use the original state flag.
What took so long?
Does anyone have a picture of the new flag?
Good job Mississippi Republicans & Democrats! Working together. Good to see.
Those controversial confederates definitely are traitorous rebellion and it is not meaningful that remove some so-called battle-emblem from ur rag, just remove ur traitorous presidents, just remove ur unfair racist law or attitude toward those innocent black citizen!
maggieNYT Americans, 1945. No vote necessary.
TheAndyKatz Can we work on the Alabama State Troopers now?
That outta fix Mississippi.
Oooow weeee they riding tonight. Stay safe people. Neck alert!
I've got a few of these beautiful flags available On my ebay store. Don't get gouged on price.
TVietor08 Congratulations, Mississippi, for joining the 19th, 20th & 21st centuries. Too bad the votes weren't unanimous. Vote out those nays. You deserve better. VoteOutHate
TheAndyKatz This is great news. However, 51 legislators voted to keep this hateful symbol.
lookner This video presentation needs to be given more exposure. It is incredibly educational. It is long, but compelling and very gripping. I watched it after Charlottesville and just again last week.
TheAndyKatz
And Mississippi catapults to the 21st century. Too bad gop wants to stay in the 18th century.
So this is it? No more loop holes or anything? Mississippi is dropping the white supremacist emblem from their flag?
If you were looking for the evidence that GOD exists, here it is
lookner Good. Though I'm sure all the KKKarens will need to update their tramp stamps
Trump gonna sign an executive order telling them they can’t do it 😆😆😆
And replace it racist slogan: 'in god we trust'
GeorgeTakei Are they French, Russian ......
maggieNYT Good for Mississippi.
Republicans again FOR change. Not dems.
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Republican governed state steps up.
The Confederate emblem represented racism and hatred. I’m glad that Mississippi voted to remove it.
Good riddance.
Yeah now we have the Yugoslavian flag.
maggieNYT No they did not vote to remove!! They voted to make it a election issue.
Now if only Mississippi legislators would vote to remove controversial Confederates from the state.
Without the Confederate flag insert. Russia 🇷🇺. realDonaldTrump will love this.
WISSISSIPPI
But my HERITAGE! 😂😂😀🤔 lynching may go up.
maggieNYT Oh happy day! Great story by EWagsterPettus. Bells ringing in Jackson had me 😭!
Replace that section with the white flag of surrender.
They work on Sunday?
Should have been an infringement issue, why not? I would be against using a flag to illustrate your state flag, no creativity.
🤘🏽💯🤘🏽💯👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
lookner so, just add a Red Star and call it communist Yugoslavia?
This was handled. How you ask? GOP dominates the Mississippi House 74-45 and the Senate 36-16, and the governor is a Republican.
That’s going to one beautiful flag after they actually vote it out.
Thank you Mississippi.
Should have been an infringement issue, why not?
Good thing too, racism is over now. This put the nail in the coffin.
Might want to label this as opinion. ‘White supremacist lawmakers.’ REALLY?
Unfortunately the proposal to replace it with a swastika is gaining some momentum.
It’s a start.
Now what they will have is the Yugoslavian flag without the star.
Good, but should’ve been done years ago
Way to go Mississippi!
It was IN their state flag?
Good Move, NO NEED for the Confederate Flag to be held up and portrayed as an equal to the American Flag or to fly along side our State or Branches of the Military & Intelligence Agencies Flags and so forth. It’s not right; it does NOT represent what America is about.
It’s about f**king time.
On today’s episode of “things that should have already been done 100 years ago”
The 'Southern Swastika' finally comes off the surface of the MS State flag in 2020, but it's still in there. It's invisible now.
lookner Only controversial because blacks and the DNC are extremely racist !
“bUt mUh HeRiTaGe”
lookner Fuck trump!
LFG RACISTS ARE HUUUUGE MAD NOW
👏
lookner
Dang, if Mississippi keeps catching up, who will the rest of us in the South have to look down on?
Rekt
Good work! If you disagree with this you’re a racist
They can try to remove whatever they don't like but you CANNOT OWN THE TRUTH OR WHITE MINDS + FREEDOMS LIBERTY UNITY OR ANYTHING YOU THINK YOU CAN LIE ABOUT TO OBTAIN! YOUR CAMPAIGN OF DIVIDE+CONQUER OVER WHITES HAS BEEN LONG SEEN+KNOWN ALL ABOUT! BUT OUR FREEDOM IS FOREVER1776!
maggieNYT Mississippi legislators are Globalist corporate slaves bringing in more propaganda and erasing murder of southerners over trade and tariff war. Ironically freedom of the victorious north is gone - replaced by technocratic financial class's tyranny! You are muzzled slaves for 1%!
GeorgeTakei In Mississippi? It's official, Hell has just froze over. Good on you, Mississippi 👍
Do it
Good. They should put the Magnolia Tree on the flag.
JerryDunleavy As a Mississipian who went to Ole Miss, I have no problem with this. I've been saying for 20 years, I think it hurts our perception, our tourism, and getting companies to move here. Should have done it a long time ago.
good start. next, make it illegal to publicly display the stars and bars
TVietor08 Only a little more than 150 years after the fact
All the people saying Democrata started the Klan and were Confederates.... Why are you so mad now that the Democracts wanna remove these things? If yall arw such Patriots, why keep symbols from the traitors of the US?
ESCochrane Jesus what took so long?
GeorgeTakei Great news! Finally my home state has taken a huge step in the right direction. The racists are having a meltdown right now but the times they are a changing.. MississippiFlag
If you have a platform use it,what would sports be without the black athlete,how can a racist cheer them and hate them at the same time,making you both a racist and a hypocrite and well a coward too!! If you are wondering who I’m talking too,if the shoe fits!!!
Good, loser traitors shouldn’t be revered.
When you’re the poorest state in the Union.......money talks!
BoycottMississippi
'Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.' WELL DONE!
Congratulations, Mississippi!!
this is one dumb looking flag lol
Shit bag is going to be mad
Controversial? Call it what it is...just say racist flag!
Perhaps the new Mississippi state flag should have the motto 'NCAA matters'
Whoda thunk this on 5/24? A shame it took the George Floyd tragedy, but this month PROVED that we are the UNITED States. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
maggieNYT good
Wait a second, I smell progress in 2020. Finally some educated leadership.
Said it before and I'll say it again, I've partied with drag queens who spend less time fussing over a bit of fabric than these flag-humping nutters. I say add Buddy Christ, include Matthew 5:44 and let the good times roll
I can come up with something way better than that!
Good on ya, Mississippi!!💕👍💕
About fucking time.
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