Mississippi flag ordered out of park near Statue of Liberty
Source: Associated Press
Mike Catalini, Associated Press Updated 3:57 pm CDT, Friday, April 26, 2019
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday ordered that the Mississippi flag, which carries a Confederate emblem, be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty.
Murphy ordered the removal of Mississippi's flag from a display of each state's flag at Liberty State Park, a preserve of more than 1,200 acres in Jersey City that overlooks Ellis Island and Lady Liberty.
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Murphy is a first-term Democrat and a self-styled progressive who regularly cited the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue's base that invites immigrants to America.
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"The Confederate symbol displayed on the Mississippi state flag is reprehensible and does not reflect our values of inclusivity and equality," he said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Mississippi-flag-ordered-out-of-park-near-Statue-13799029.php
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(52,317 posts)or a banner of a magnolia.
localroger
(3,630 posts)Those displays are supposed to be of the official state flags, as chosen by the representatives elected by the population of each state. If you start replacing them with arbitrary preferables, where does it stop? The display would essentially become meaningless. In this case the statement is clear; Mississippi is missing because its official flag is offensive. It is up to Mississippians to select something more appropriate if they want it to be part of our display.
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(52,317 posts)maybe leaving it with no flag at all where mississippi should be, that might work.
but replacing it with the american flag seems more like erasing mississippi altogether than merely dealing with the problem of an offensive flag.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)with erasing Mississippi. Oh and Alabama.
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(52,317 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)I live in Texas. It ain't much better than Mississippi and Alabama.
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(52,317 posts)patphil
(6,207 posts)I spent 2 years in Shreveport, La. in 1971 and 1972 at the invitation of the U.S. Air Force. My landlord was an old school southerner...moss on the trees in his yard, and bars on the first floor windows to keep the "darkies" out.
He told me there was a sign on the Louisiana/Texas border that announced, "You are now leaving Louisiana and entering Texas." He said that the ones who could read stayed in Louisiana.
Personally, I think it might have been the other way around but then I was from New York and everyone down there hated northerners.
Patrick Phillips
paleotn
(17,956 posts)At the very least they should have been reconstructed in the full, Thaddeus Stevens sense of the word. But alas, they were not and slavery took on another name...Jim Crow.
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(52,317 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)That would just scream 'Mississippi'...
Sgent
(5,857 posts)its already available on license plates for those who might want to leave the south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi#/media/File:Stennis-flag-Mississippi-proposal.svg
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)I like flags of countries that win wars.
SilasSouleII
(363 posts)I've got to remember that one!
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Post-civil-war changes like this flag (1894) and early 20th century Confederate statues were created as emblems of hate. Not history.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)magicarpet
(14,167 posts)... racism,... and Fascistic brotherly love only if you are white.
spike jones
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|Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Phil Ochs RIP