Mississippi lawmakers not erasing Confederate emblem on flag

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mississippi lawmakers not erasing Confederate emblem on flag

Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

Updated 4:00 pm, Tuesday, February 23, 2016

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators this year won't attempt to redesign the last state flag that features the Confederate battle emblem because leaders say they can't reach consensus on removing the symbol.

Tuesday was the deadline for legislative committees to act on general bills, and flag proposals are among hundreds of measures dying without debate.

Some bills proposed redesigning the flag to remove the rebel cross, while others would have stripped state money from colleges and local governments that refuse to fly the current banner. One bill offered separate-but-equal flags, keeping the current one and having a second with a magnolia tree.

Confederate symbols have been debated since the slaying of nine black worshippers last June at a South Carolina church. The man charged had posed for photos with the rebel flag.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Mississippi-lawmakers-not-erasing-Confederate-6849888.php

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[Archae]

1. When was the Confederate flag added to their flag?

Wasn't it during the 60's and desegregation?

Their way of saying "Up yours, Washington DC..."

[Bryce Butler]

2. It was redesigned in 1894..

The current flag goes all the way back to 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi

[forest444]

3. Archae was thinking of South Carolina - but the motivation in Mississippi in 1894 was the very same.

It was their way of pronouncing that Reconstruction was, in fact, over - "dead and buried," as they like to say.

And it was. Plessy v. Ferguson (the infamous "separate but equal" ruling) was handed down just two years later.

[olddad56]

4. It is Mississippi, what would you expect.

why doesn't the US just give the southern states another chance to succeed from the union. And let them appoint Trump to be their dictator.