re: Lawsuit filed to remove Confederate flag from Mississippi state flag

I have lived in the south my entire life and the flags and statues should come down. I find it hard to believe anyone honestly feels the other way on this issue. If you had to drive past a Huey Newton, Bobby Seale or Malcolm X statue I'm sure you wouldn't be happy.

Also, per the census website the "Black or African alone" population of Mississippi is 37% what's the reaction if the residents moved to put the continent of Africa on 37% of the flag?

And for the "I'm glad we took care of the other problems" crowd you are aware that we can have more than one problem at a time, right? By all means we should tackle the hard issues before something as simple as removing a symbol from a flag or some statues from a park.

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TIGERSTORM

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So your only reason for wanting to remove the flag is bc whites wouldn't want Africa on flags?

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So your only reason for wanting to remove the flag is bc whites wouldn't want Africa on flags?

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No, my reason is because of course it's offensive to a large portion of people. I'm not debating a bathroom law or religious freedom law but something as obvious as this shouldn't be a debate.

And for the record in high school I wore a rebel flag jacket to school for about 4 days before the principal called me to his office and told me that he loved the jacket but I couldn't wear it because it offended people. Even as an a-hole 16 year old (I probably only wore the jacket because I was an a-hole 16 year old) I understood that of course this would be offensive and I shouldn't wear it.