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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:49 PM Jun 2015

Mississippi's Wicker wants flag with Confederate emblem replaced

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker said on Wednesday that his state's flag, which features a Confederate battle emblem in its upper left corner, should be replaced with one that is more unifying.

Weighing in on a debate that has swept across the American South since the massacre of nine blacks in a South Carolina church last week, allegedly by a white gunman, Wicker said Mississippi's flag should be put in a museum and replaced.

"As the descendant of several brave Americans who fought for the Confederacy, I have not viewed Mississippi's current state flag as offensive," Wicker said in a statement.

"However, it is clearer and clearer to me that many of my fellow citizens feel differently, and that our state flag increasingly portrays a false impression of our state to others," he said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/mississippis-wicker-wants-flag-confederate-emblem-replaced-171844553.html

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Mississippi's Wicker wants flag with Confederate emblem replaced (Original Post) Little Tich Jun 2015 OP

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- " arcane1 Jun 2015 #1

This professor once proposed a return to Mississippi's traditional "Magnolia flag." pnwmom Jun 2015 #2

I like it. Restore the original Mississippi flag up until 1894 Pooka Fey Jun 2015 #5

if you fought for the confederacy you were not an american. nice try tho nt msongs Jun 2015 #3

Fucking opportunist Aerows Jun 2015 #4

Cochran at least does decent constituent services Recursion Jun 2015 #6

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- "

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:54 PM

Jun 2015

"-- the greatest material interest of the world."

From the Mississippi Declaration of Causes:

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html

He can pretend all he wants that the "offensive interpretation" is some new thing that was added to the flag, but History knows better. He's either lying or simply uneducated.

pnwmom

(108,994 posts)

2. This professor once proposed a return to Mississippi's traditional "Magnolia flag."

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:55 PM

Jun 2015

Maybe this would be a good alternative.

http://home.olemiss.edu/~mudws/flag/

Pooka Fey

(3,496 posts)

5. I like it. Restore the original Mississippi flag up until 1894

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 06:39 AM

Jun 2015

Great idea.

msongs

(67,441 posts)

3. if you fought for the confederacy you were not an american. nice try tho nt

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2015, 10:32 PM

Jun 2015

Aerows

(39,961 posts)

4. Fucking opportunist

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2015, 10:48 PM

Jun 2015

I did not, and will not ever vote for him. He was stupid enough to sign the Tom Cotton letter, and got an earful from me. Even Thad Cochran wasn't that stupid.

Other Republicans were so dirty that they took video of Thad Cochran's mother in a nursing home (she suffers from dementia) to make political hay of it. Cochran is an atrocious Republican Senator with horrible views, but Wicker is in a racist asshole class all by himself.

Neither one of them, nor my Representative are worth a dime, but out of the 3 of them, I'd at least piss on Thad Cochran if the man was on fire.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

6. Cochran at least does decent constituent services

Reply to Aerows (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 09:43 AM

Jun 2015

Wicker didn't even know what part of the state Batesville is in...

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