(06-25-2020 08:34 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 06:28 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 10:02 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 05:09 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 03:31 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  I fail to see what it matters. I’ve consistently said the flag which garnered 60% of the referendum vote accurately represents the state. Why is that a problem?

Cause Marc you keep making snide ass comments about the people there and the flag. If you don’t live there don’t worry about it. So have you figured out what’s the stars and bars yet? I’m gonna learn you something.

I was obviously wrong in referring to the confederate battle flag as the stars and bars... that being said, I was not wrong in claiming the majority of the people in the state want this racist symbol to represent the state.

And so frequently I hear modern day republicans claim to be the party of Lincoln... the party that freed the slaves, yet it’s modern day republicans who cling to these symbols of hate and intolerance. It’s modern day Republicans who speak of the romance of the “Lost Cause”. There is no reason to hang onto to this icon of hate, other to flip the bird the 40% of the population it is meant to offend.

So a battle flag from the Civil War is racist why? What made it racist? Was it because a nefarious group made it a symbol of their hatred or did Mississippi incorporate several Confederate battle flags into their state flag? Come on Mensa, your name signifies you're smarter than me, I shouldn't be having to educate you.

Here's a piece of history for you Mensa, not every man that fought for the South owned slaves or hated blacks. Not every person from Mississippi is a racist.

In 2020, it’s a racist symbol and it’s been so for the better part of the past 100 years. Why? Likely because it was adopted post Civil War as a glorified symbol of the confederate soldier... a flag of southern defiance; and it was not adopted by Mississippi as part of its state flag until 1894... long after it came to glorify Lee’s Northern Army/ Lost Cause and not the Confederate Navy. If Mississippi wants to glorify its past, then adopt its 1st flag, and not the one that glorifies its confederate past.