Ole Miss Orders State Flag Removed

[Preacher]

The confederates were traitors to our country the very definition of treason. I don't understand why anyone would fly that flag. Might as well fly the isis flag while you're at it.

Can't fix stupid.

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WTG Ole Miss

Interim Chancellor Morris Stocks:
"As Mississippi's flagship university, we have a deep love and respect for our state. Because the flag remains Mississippi's official banner, this was a hard decision. I understand the flag represents tradition and honor to some. But to others, the flag means that some members of the Ole Miss family are not welcomed or valued."


University Of Mississippi Orders State Flag Removed
October 26, 2015
Alexandra Starr
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State of Mississippi should withhold ALL state funding for EVERY university/college in the state that refuses to fly the state flag. The state was around 36% black when the entire state voted on the flag and it won with overwhelming majority. GET THE FUCK OVER IT.

More ignorance and stupidity from the right.

Hey if you don't want to fly the states flag why should the state give a shit if you get funds from them? Good enough to give you funds but not good enough to fly a flag EVERY resident in the state of Mississippi voted on? I think not.

 

[Stephanie]

They want to make all their own decisions against the State they live in. They should make all their own money too. The state should stop funding to them. so should people who graduated from there and gives them donations. Let them have it. they can go beg for money or something and take down all the flags they want

 

[bendog]

Steve Earle is a TRAITOR

 

[paddymurphy]

It's a WAR against our culture.

A war you are clearly losing. You guys are like Grenada in 1983. How does that feel? Losing all of the time.

 

[paddymurphy]

Steve Earle is a TRAITOR

Steve Earle is a RACE TRAITOR. Fixed that for you.

 

[easyt65]

I find it amusing that Obama intentionally chose an historically documented Socialist Flag and slogan for his 2012 re-election campaign, and liberals had no problem with it. Black Lives Matter called for the murder of all whites and of policemen, but, again, Liberals don't have a problem with anyone flying their flag. But Libs go ape-shi'ite when a mentally ill person shoots several people and demands the banning of the civil war flag he once posed with , which they immediately demonized as the driving force behind his crime rather than acknowledge the fact that he was mentally ill.

 

[bendog]

Actually, ah thank Ole Miss is changin' the flag so's we kehn re-kut moah bettah foo-ball playahs.

 

[bendog]

Hey seriously, in the 50s and 60s we were a powerhouse, but then this desegregation nonsense started, and unless Archie and Olivia Manning have some sons they haven't disclosed .... we gotta do something!

 

[Star]

Actually, ah thank Ole Miss is changin' the flag so's we kehn re-kut moah bettah foo-ball playahs.

I think you said "re-kut moah bettah foo-ball playahs" to be funny but IMO there is a shred of truth in your funny. Check out → this

"WAR against our culture"? If the so-called Confederate flag had been in use as a symbol of Confederate culture prior to the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century you might have a point but-----but history doesn't support your premise.


Embattled Banner: The true history of the Confederate flag
John M. Coski
7/9/2015

<snip>

...as the civil rights movement gathered force, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, defenders of segregation increasingly employed the use of the battle flag as a symbol of their cause. Most damaging to the flag’s reputation was its use in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. Although founded by Confederate veterans almost immediately after the Civil War, the KKK did not use the Confederate flag widely or at all in its ritual in the 1860s and 1870s or during its rebirth and nationwide popularity from 1915 to the late 1920s. Only with a second rebirth in the late 1930s and 1940s did the battle flag take hold in the Klan.


Prior to the rise in usage of the Confererate flag by the Ku Klux Klan, the Confederate flag was used as a ceremonial symbol at funerals The so-called Confederate flag was not in wide use during the civil war nor in the years following the civil war. It wasn't until he Ku Klux Klan began using it as a featured symbol in the late '30's and 40's → the civil rights movement that it began to achieve prominence as a symbol of Confederate Heritage. Bolding by Star.


Anyone today hoping to understand why so many African Americans and others perceive the Confederate flag as a symbol of hate must recognize the impact of the flag’s historical use by white supremacists. The Civil Rights Era has profoundly affected the history of the Confederate flag in several ways. The flag’s use as a symbol of white supremacy has framed the debate over the flag ever since. Just as important, the triumph of civil rights restored African Americans to full citizenship and restored their role in the ongoing process of deciding what does and does not belong on America’s public symbolic landscape. Americans 50 or older came of age when a symbolic landscape dotted with Confederate flags, monuments and street names was the status quo. That status quo was of course the result of a prolonged period in which African Americans were effectively excluded from the process of shaping the symbolic landscape. As African Americans gained political power, they challenged—and disrupted— that status quo. The history of the flag over the last half-century has involved a seemingly endless series of controversies at the local, state and national levels. Over time, the trend has been to reduce the flag’s profile on the symbolic landscape, especially on anyplace that could be construed as public property. As students of history, we tend to think of it as something that happens in the past and forget that history is happening now and that we are actors on the historical stage. Because the Confederate battle flag did not fade into history in 1865, it was kept alive to take on new uses and new meanings and to continue to be part of an ever-changing history. As much as students of Civil War history may wish that we could freeze the battle flag in its Civil War context, we know that we must study the flag’s entire history if we wish to understand the history that is happening around us today. Studying the flag’s full history also allows us to engage in a more constructive dialogue about its proper place in the present and in the future.



"Its use was largely limited to historical ceremonies associated with veterans' events and war memorials; the flag did not become the symbol most prominently associated with the Confederacy until several decades after the Civil War ended, and it was not widely perceived as a politically polarizing symbol until it was appropriated by segregationist politicians and groups in the middle of the twentieth century." More from → http://www.snopes.com/2015/06/28/confederate-flag-history/


If y'all wanted to protect your culture with the use of the Confederate flag symbol, y'all would be going forehead to forehead with the white supremacists instead of people that believe in American civil rights - but you're not!
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[bendog]

Actually, ah thank Ole Miss is changin' the flag so's we kehn re-kut moah bettah foo-ball playahs.

I think you said "re-kut moah bettah foo-ball playahs" to be funny but IMO there is a shred of truth in your funny. Check out → this

"WAR against our culture"? If the so-called Confederate flag had been in use as a symbol of Confederate culture prior to the civil rights movement in the mid-20th century you might have a point but-----but history doesn't support your premise.


Embattled Banner: The true history of the Confederate flag
John M. Coski
7/9/2015

<snip>

...as the civil rights movement gathered force, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, defenders of segregation increasingly employed the use of the battle flag as a symbol of their cause. Most damaging to the flag’s reputation was its use in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. Although founded by Confederate veterans almost immediately after the Civil War, the KKK did not use the Confederate flag widely or at all in its ritual in the 1860s and 1870s or during its rebirth and nationwide popularity from 1915 to the late 1920s. Only with a second rebirth in the late 1930s and 1940s did the battle flag take hold in the Klan.


Prior to the rise in usage of the Confererate flag by the Ku Klux Klan, the Confederate flag was used as a ceremonial symbol at funerals The so-called Confederate flag was not in wide use during the civil war nor in the years following the civil war. It wasn't until he Ku Klux Klan began using it as a featured symbol in the late '30's and 40's → the civil rights movement that it began to achieve prominence as a symbol of Confederate Heritage. Bolding by Star.


Anyone today hoping to understand why so many African Americans and others perceive the Confederate flag as a symbol of hate must recognize the impact of the flag’s historical use by white supremacists. The Civil Rights Era has profoundly affected the history of the Confederate flag in several ways. The flag’s use as a symbol of white supremacy has framed the debate over the flag ever since. Just as important, the triumph of civil rights restored African Americans to full citizenship and restored their role in the ongoing process of deciding what does and does not belong on America’s public symbolic landscape. Americans 50 or older came of age when a symbolic landscape dotted with Confederate flags, monuments and street names was the status quo. That status quo was of course the result of a prolonged period in which African Americans were effectively excluded from the process of shaping the symbolic landscape. As African Americans gained political power, they challenged—and disrupted— that status quo. The history of the flag over the last half-century has involved a seemingly endless series of controversies at the local, state and national levels. Over time, the trend has been to reduce the flag’s profile on the symbolic landscape, especially on anyplace that could be construed as public property. As students of history, we tend to think of it as something that happens in the past and forget that history is happening now and that we are actors on the historical stage. Because the Confederate battle flag did not fade into history in 1865, it was kept alive to take on new uses and new meanings and to continue to be part of an ever-changing history. As much as students of Civil War history may wish that we could freeze the battle flag in its Civil War context, we know that we must study the flag’s entire history if we wish to understand the history that is happening around us today. Studying the flag’s full history also allows us to engage in a more constructive dialogue about its proper place in the present and in the future.



"Its use was largely limited to historical ceremonies associated with veterans' events and war memorials; the flag did not become the symbol most prominently associated with the Confederacy until several decades after the Civil War ended, and it was not widely perceived as a politically polarizing symbol until it was appropriated by segregationist politicians and groups in the middle of the twentieth century." More from → http://www.snopes.com/2015/06/28/confederate-flag-history/


If y'all wanted to protect your culture with the use of the Confederate flag symbol, y'all would be going forehead to forehead with the white supremacists instead of people that believe in American civil rights - but you're not!
.

Well, that may all be true, but as I linked before we in Miss-sippee adopted our flag in 1894, right after we redid our constitution to disenfranchise black voters, prevent blacks from owning guns, segregate prisons and schools, and preserve racial purity in marriage.
Constitution of Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

So, while racists in places other than in Mississippi may have hijacked the stars and bars for racist reasons, I assure you our flag has consistently stood for heritage.

 

[IsaacNewton]

You have to notice cons couch everything in relation to money. That is their one true messiah. The bow down before money and anyone that has a lot of it.

Anti...Christ.