Choctaw chief chosen to help design new Mississippi flag

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
Updated 6:15 pm CDT, Friday, July 24, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will help design a new Mississippi state flag that does not include the Confederate battle emblem.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves announced Friday that he is appointing Chief Cyrus Ben and two other people to a nine-member flag commission.

Mississippi legislators voted in late June to retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the rebel emblem that's widely condemned racist. The change came after national protests over racial injustice sparked new debates about the public display of Confederate symbols.

The commission must design a new Mississippi flag that cannot include the Confederate emblem and must have the phrase, “In God We Trust.”

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Choctaw-chief-chosen-to-help-design-new-15432875.php

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Too bad about the slogan.

[azureblue]

2. add under it

Whose God we talking about kemosabi?

[RussBLib]

3. take out the racists, plug in the nonexistent god

not much of an improvement in my opinion

didn't "god", via the Bible, condone slavery? Now how can you "trust in god" if you don't bother to follow "his" commandments?

[lonely bird]

4. How about the actual freaking motto?

Since God seems to fuck us up due, allegedly, to the gays or abortion or whatever other bullshit Republicans put out there why not just E pluribus unum? Especially since the South sought to destroy the union. Rub their noses in it.

[Greybnk48]

5. You should send this suggestion to the flag panel,

minus the "Rub their noses in it." I think your suggestion is brilliant! That's what it should say!

[Wolf Frankula]

6. Use the Whole Slogan

"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash."

Wolf