Ole Miss students’ leading role on state flag is gratifying (Editorial | Commercial Appeal)
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It was gratifying to learn this week that conscientious college students can still march in the front in a worthy cause, especially at the University of Mississippi, which has not finished ridding its campus of racist and oppressive symbols.
The Ole Miss student government association earned the support of the university and forward-thinking Mississippians when it voted to get rid of the state flag until it is redesigned to eliminate the Confederate battle flag ...
... there is a growing awareness in Mississippi that not all of Southern heritage is worth embracing.
Oxford, Hattiesburg and Starkville are among the cities in Mississippi that have lowered the flag because it includes a symbol that is offensive to a major segment of the state's population and signals to the rest of the world that Mississippi has not moved beyond a past steeped in institutional racism ...
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