Key House Democrat says Mississippi flag will change

[struggle4progress]

Deborah Barfield Berry
USA TODAY 5:05 p.m. EDT September 4, 2015

... “I really believe that the state of Mississippi is going to change its flag,’’ Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn of South Carolina said last month ...

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican, hasn’t publicly expressed a personal opinion on the issue, but he has noted that state residents voted in 2001 to leave the flag as it is. Republican state House Speaker Philip Gunn supports changing the flag ...

Bryant has said he doesn’t plan to call a special session over the issue. The legislature convenes in January ...

In Congress, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California have proposed resolutions to remove from the U.S. House any items — including the Mississippi state flag — featuring the Confederate emblem ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/04/clyburn-says-mississippi-flag-change/71710506/

[awoke_in_2003]

1. K&R

I hope this happens. It might not fix the problems, but having the state sanction them (by having that rag in the flag) isn't helping the situation.