I hope you are right, but I'm told this morning that the "Chris McDaniel Posse" has enough no votes in the senate to beat a suspension resolution. I do think the House is ready to move forward with removal.
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I hope you are right, but I'm told this morning that the "Chris McDaniel Posse" has enough no votes in the senate to beat a suspension resolution. I do think the House is ready to move forward with removal.
Heck, I don't even see what would be wrong with keeping what's on the flag now but just replacing the stars and bars in the upper left corner with a Magnolia blossom or something. That way folks that like the current basic design of the flag would have less to gripe about. But either way, just change it to something else.
If you think that the MS Baptist took advice, or even listened to, "the progs", I would like to sell you some stuff at a very reasonable price.
How does anybody listen to that guy at this point. The fact that he has any relevance diminishes my faith in humanity a bit...
Please raise awareness that the Magnolia Flag is a Confederate flag. It will be so embarrassing if we remove a flag for featuring a Confederate symbol and replace it with an actual Confederate flag, all because we don't properly teach history.
If they just remove this one, I'll be good. Let designers design, let people vote, take years and years of arguing over it, but get the racist one down immediately.
Could offend some, but it’s also a statement that is on federally issued currency, so I think there’s a lot less “oppression” rhetoric that can be drawn from it. I don’t think atheists really have anywhere near the same high ground as African Americans in regards to claiming systemic discrimination.
That being said, if the “In God We Trust” was left off of it to keep us from going through this ******** all over again a few years later with some other movement, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings either.
Somehow GA got a pass on this. I doubt MS would.
The flag has to be completely fresh with no borrowed components from any other past flag associated with secession movements or the confederacy. Every idea that has significant support has these. Toss them in the trash and be completely genuine and come up with new ideas. But those can be argued tomorrow. Today, the legislature has to do right and take down the current.
The flag has to be completely fresh with no borrowed components from any other past flag associated with secession movements or the confederacy. Every idea that has significant support has these. Toss them in the trash and be completely genuine and come up with new ideas. But those can be argued tomorrow. Today, the legislature has to do right and take down the current.
Yes these are boring. Yes the top one looks like a bunch of other states and the bottom one looks like Missouri. Yes these are a missed opportunity to put something out there that is iconic that the whole country could recognize as Mississippi.
But whatever, if this is what it takes to get the Confederate imagery off our flag, so be it. Most state flags are forgettable and ours can be too if it has to.
This is exactly how we should do it. (1) Remove the current flag. (2) Propose/debate possible replacements.
Maybe so, but getting rid of the stars and bars gets us out of the NCAA/SEC crosshairs for the time being. That emblem is their only focus right now. None of the other Southern states that have flags with ties back to confederate imagery are having an issue with either the NCAA or the protest crowd. Bottom line for me, I don't care what the new flag is as long as it doesn't have the Confederate battle flag in it.
I sent him a FB message as we are friends but here is his official contact info
[email protected]. Phone 601-359-3457
[email protected]. Phone 601-359-3457
I didnt realize that flag with the tree on it was a Confederate symbol, though I completely accept that my history of Mississippi is quite incomplete.
Here is what the state of Mississippi legitimately needs to do(since it has such a history of welcoming outside suggestions***)
- adopt the state motto Per aspera ad astra (because it describes the state so perfectly)- put that motto on the flag along with a visual reference to the historically famous river that forms its western boundry, or put that motto on the flag along with a visual reference to something the state is known for- a magnolia flower.
- 17ing bars of color suck- leave that to France and a bunch of other countries.
- Dont put the damn name of the state on the flag.
- Simple and distinctive is best.
They already are on the wrong side, because now if they do it, it was only because of immense pressure. They really missed an opportunity here to just do the right thing. Now they will be remembered as the legislature that was drug kicking and screaming on the last day of the session, to eat their peas only after every institution under the sun pinned them down and shoved the spoon into their mouth and held their nose.
New Zealand had a contest a few years ago to design a new flag. Here are some of the entries submitted. I present these as inspiration to you artist out there.
A possum shooting lasers from its eyes would be awesome...
https://www.google.com/search?sourc...qAhVjdt8KHTIfB9IQsAR6BAgCEAE&biw=1024&bih=501
A possum shooting lasers from its eyes would be awesome...
https://www.google.com/search?sourc...qAhVjdt8KHTIfB9IQsAR6BAgCEAE&biw=1024&bih=501
Yup. Its a motto for other places too around the world. And it nails Mississippi's past as well as its hopes for the future.
It makes sense for the full tree to not be considered, given the history.
A flower is a totally different image and should be considered.
Its better than the current flag and better than proposals to sneak an lesser known secessionist flag back up there, but it breaks some of the common vexilolgical rules of a "good flag" by having words, more than 3 colors, and a complex design. If a child can't draw it from memory, it's a bad flag.
If I were in the legislature, I'd push for the Stennis flag without the ring of stars, just keeping it simple with stripe, star, stripe. Obviously I would ultimately vote for whatever non-secessionist flag could get passed, but a very simple design could become a recognizable national brand for the state
When the flag gets changed, the legislature should absolutely be commended for a job well done.
Doesn't matter it didn't meet the timeline of a sports commissioner and a football player and joe sports fan.
They’ve completely 17ed this up from start to finish, so no I won’t do that. They should’ve done it after the Charleston shootings and didn’t. They should’ve done it 2001 and didn’t. There’s a few good ones but the State Senate is a bunch of chuckle17s.
Nope Tupelo. Originally from Mississippi, but now in Louisiana & merged with the Biloxi. But you could add Natchez to the list, though I believe the Natchez were not thought to be very peaceful, even by Native American standards of the time.