Mississippi lawmakers take steps to remove the Confederate battle emblem from state flag

[Guno]

JACKSON, Miss. -- Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

"The eyes of the state, the nation and indeed the world are on this House," the second-ranking office in the Mississippi House, Jason White, told his colleagues.

The House voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to suspend legislative deadlines and file a bill to change the flag. The Senate was expected to vote on the suspension later Saturday. That would allow debate on a bill as soon as Sunday.



Mississippi lawmakers take steps to remove the Confederate battle emblem from state flag - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

 

[veritas1]

Lawmakers? When did they get to take part? I thought raving street mobs made the rules.

 

[apdst]

So much for the will of of the people.

 

[HumblePi]

Lawmakers? When did they get to take part? I thought raving street mobs made the rules.

The resounding voices of their constituents are speaking and they'd better listen.

 

[Integrityrespec]

JACKSON, Miss. -- Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

"The eyes of the state, the nation and indeed the world are on this House," the second-ranking office in the Mississippi House, Jason White, told his colleagues.

The House voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to suspend legislative deadlines and file a bill to change the flag. The Senate was expected to vote on the suspension later Saturday. That would allow debate on a bill as soon as Sunday.



Mississippi lawmakers take steps to remove the Confederate battle emblem from state flag - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

I really don't care if they do but shouldn't the voters in Mississippi get to decide that by voting? Put it on the ballot, not let a few spineless politicians do it.

 

[armycowboy]

So much for the will of of the people.

A majority of people in Mississippi support removing the emblem from their state flag.

Mississippi flag: Poll says majority of voters support change

 

[Simon W. Moon]

So much for the will of of the people.

The Electorate may vote the legislators out of office if they find it worth the trouble.

They probably won't though.


If the legislators thought the constituency would object, they'd object as well.
Some legislators may raise some objections.
Then they may have some debate.

It's just sausages being made.

 

[jamesbyoung]

So much for the will of of the people.

The leges are the elected 'will of the people,' apdst, not the raving mobs of righty racist culture freaks.

 

[Greenbeard]

I really don't care if they do but shouldn't the voters in Mississippi get to decide that by voting? Put it on the ballot, not let a few spineless politicians do it.

In a republic, citizens vote on representatives to attend to public matters.

 

[veritas1]

The resounding voices of their constituents are speaking and they'd better listen.

Seems you need a red state for that to happen.

If those statues are so offensive, why didn't all these blue states and cities take them down by way of their legislatures long before the mobs did so? Seems to me the statues are a convenient excuse to do what they wanted to do all along, which is pull apart society.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Lawmakers? When did they get to take part? I thought raving street mobs made the rules.

The sound of veritas whining and crying because he can never enjoy Mississippi again without their n***er hating flag. :lamo

 

[OrphanSlug]

About damn time, Mississippi has been behind the times for way too long on this subject.

 

[TheGoverness]

About damn time, Mississippi has been behind the times for way too long on this subject.

Considering it took them so freaking long to ratify the 13th Amendment, being slow on this issue is there thing.

Hopefully they actually get rid of it.

 

[veritas1]

The sound of veritas whining and crying because he can never enjoy Mississippi again without their n***er hating flag. :lamo

Never been to Mississippi. Don't care what they do with their flag. You seem to have missed the entire point. How shocking.

 

[CaughtInThe]

i never thought i'd see the day...

 

[CaughtInThe]

interesting isn't it? it's not the DEMOCRATS that will be mad about this. you know, those behind the Confederacy.


hahahahaha

 

[Ikari]

A majority of people in Mississippi support removing the emblem from their state flag.

Mississippi flag: Poll says majority of voters support change

Well I guess that's just apdst lying as usual.

 

[joko104]

A majority of people in Mississippi support removing the emblem from their state flag.

Mississippi flag: Poll says majority of voters support change

Polls now are just lies.

The reason Republicans are losing is because they always give in. Every time they move towards the Democrats it benefits the Democrats.

 

[HumblePi]

Seems you need a red state for that to happen.

If those statues are so offensive, why didn't all these blue states and cities take them down by way of their legislatures long before the mobs did so? Seems to me the statues are a convenient excuse to do what they wanted to do all along, which is pull apart society.

Oh, I thought this thread was about removing the traitors' emblem from the State flag in Mississippi.

 

[veritas1]

Oh, I thought this thread was about removing the traitors' emblem from the State flag in Mississippi.

I was contrasting Mississippi with Minnesota, Washington state and DC. No street mobs attacking the flag in MS.

 

[Jean-s]

Lawmakers? When did they get to take part? I thought raving street mobs made the rules.

In a democracy where votes have not been suppressed, legislators make such decisions. It is crass racism to have an anti-USA Southern cross as part of the Mississippi state flag.

 

[Guno]

Seems you need a red state for that to happen.

If those statues are so offensive, why didn't all these blue states and cities take them down by way of their legislatures long before the mobs did so? Seems to me the statues are a convenient excuse to do what they wanted to do all along, which is pull apart society.

Could you imagine of Germany building status of nazis after WWII, the conf statues were put up 40 years after the soufs whipping and after reconstruction. they were put up to intimidate Black people. what we are seeing is like the de nazifiction of Germany only it has taken longer in America

 

[swing_voter]

Almost 40% of Mississippi is black.

That the state, that governs all the people, would fly a flag that is offensive to 40% of the population is astounding.

 

[veritas1]

Could you imagine of Germany building status of nazis after WWII, the conf statues were put up 40 years after the soufs whipping and after reconstruction. they were put up to intimidate Black people. what we are seeing is like the de nazifiction of Germany only it has taken longer in America

There are numerous monuments in Germany to WWII war dead. Many towns and villages have them. Nobody is rushing to tear them down. Yet, the left here not only destroys statues of individual Confederates but generic monuments to war dead as well as statues of all sorts of other people they don't like or know anything about. They've even destroyed statues to abolitionists. That's how stupid they are.

 

[veritas1]

In a democracy where votes have not been suppressed, legislators make such decisions. It is crass racism to have an anti-USA Southern cross as part of the Mississippi state flag.

Yet, it is also the decision of Mississippians to do so if they feel like it. Nobody has to stay. The left seems to have no problem with states arbitrarily locking people up at home but a great problem with what emblems or monuments they display. There's a big Lenin statue in Seattle. Have you seen any conservatives rioting over it?