by Bob Walsh
Mississippi
is changing its flag. Ole Miss is the last state that still has some
representation of what is often (though not completely accurately)
called the Confederate Battle Flag on its state flag.
A
commission will design a new flag that will, assuming the current
proposal passes, NOT contain any representation of the Confederate
flag. It will also have to have the words IN GOD WE TRUST on the flag.
(I wonder if it will have to be in English?)
The
last I heard is that the commission will come up with several proposals
which will appear on the November ballot for the people to choose
from. However, since the bill has not yet passed to the governor we
don't know for sure what it's final form will be.
I've
got a couple of ideas, but they are incredibly gross and obscene and
since I am not a voter in Mississippi they are probably not interested
in my ideas anyway.
EDITOR'S NOTE: They've got enough votes in both houses to pass the bill and the governor has already said he will sign it. The South is no longer whistling Dixie.
1 comment:
I visit Biloxi twice a year. As you drive down any street there are Confederate Flags on porches and poles. I don't suppose the state is going to tear down President Jefferson Davis's Home and Museum which flies multiple Confederate Flags. Mississippi may have taken the Confederate Flag emblem from the state flag, but it still waves all over the South because history cannot be erased. Even unpleasant history.
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