Mississippi flag debate returns to Harrison County

[struggle4progress]

OCTOBER 1, 2016 5:00 AM

BY PAUL HAMPTON

The Harrison County Board of Supervisors will once again be asked to take the Mississippi flag down from county-owned buildings.

The Mississippi Rising Coalition will have a rally Monday at the flag pole at the Gulfport courthouse, which normally flies the flag. The rally will be at 9 a.m., a half-hour before the Board of Supervisors meet.

“We went before them last year and they said they would take it under advisement,” said Lea Campbell of Ocean Springs, founder and president of the coalition. “So far, there hasn’t been any movement so we’re going back Monday and ask them again” ...

http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article105312176.html

[Sunny05]

1. K&R. nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. The Confederate battle flag has no place in any official government of any

state of the Union of the United States, which is what our country supposedly is. They should no longer be commemorating their rebellion.

"Hey, remember that time when we took up arms against the Union cuz they tried to interfere with the states' right to enslave black folks? Yeah, that was cool!"

No. Just stop it.

Q. What caused the Civil War?

While many still debate the ultimate causes of the Civil War, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson writes that, "The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.

When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.

The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the Northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. They feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer United States into several small, squabbling countries."

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/