State flag action possible in Oktibbeha this month (MS)
Carl Smith
November 3, 2015 10:17:45 AM
Oktibbeha County supervisors did not tackle the contentious state flag issue Monday before state and county-wide elections, but District 5 Supervisor Joe Williams said he might bring it up for debate later this month ...
Williams first called for the flag's removal in September after Starkville aldermen voted 4-3 to stop flying the banner in July ...
A majority of Oktibbeha County voters supported the flag redesign featured in 2001's statewide referendum.
"Every time we see something happen involving racism, the person is waving our flag. It makes me uncomfortable, and it makes other residents of Mississippi uncomfortable as well," he said in September. "We know the hardship people had to endure ... as a result of being under the banner of the flag. We are not the Mississippi of old. We are the Mississippi of new" ...
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