Yuck. I didn't go to college in state, but I did go to MSMS on the campus of the MUW for my junior and senior year. Are you from the Delta? It is the only part of Mississippi I haven't really travelled in.
i genuinely don't understand how or why this flag became an accepted symbol for state governments. like, this is the flag borne by a group of separatists who broke away from the union. once we accepted them back, there is no reason we should've accepted their flags and markings. even without how mind-numbingly offensive this is to black folks, the fact that the government was okay with states sticking a traitor nation's flag on their state flags is just stupefying.
I grew up in MS, and I know there was a voter proposition to change the flag my first or second year of college (2000-1), but it lost by a large majority. The proposed alternative was quite ugly, but had some sort of historical context. I think voting to replace the flag without listing what the alternative would be might have done better.
I remember reading that they state was going to bring it to a vote again after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol last year. I am not sure if they quietly decided not to as people shifted their focus from BLM to the election.
A giant magnolia on a solid background would do pretty well in a ballot vote, imo.
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I remember reading that they state was going to bring it to a vote again after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol last year. I am not sure if they quietly decided not to as people shifted their focus from BLM to the election.
A giant magnolia on a solid background would do pretty well in a ballot vote, imo.
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