Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.
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“That flag, a lot of our people fought and died under that flag,” Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said during a political speech at the Belmont Political Rally in Tishomingo County on June 3. A reader shared a link to a video of her speech with the Mississippi Free Press.
The state did not adopt the flag—which featured three red, white and blue bars with a Confederate cross in the upper left-hand corner—until 1894, almost three decades after the end of the Civil War and several years after the end of Reconstruction. White supremacist lawmakers adopted the Confederate-themed flag in place of a prior magnolia flag as they worked to lock Black Mississippians out of politics with a slew of Jim Crow laws.
Amazing that they could fight under a flag 30 years before it was even designed.To be fair to the local GOP they seem to understand the awful optics of this move. It only seems to be a few klan followers who think it is important.
Perhaps they are lucky that they live in such a wealthy and privileged state that gives them time to worry about such nonsense..
Dont mess with ma flag y'all