Please stop with the foolishness. I grew up with a Confederate flag on my bedroom wall. But to think that the fact that the fact that a small number of blacks fought In the Confederate Army somehow makes a flag adopted a a symbol of white supremacy in the 1890s as a reaction to Reconstruction okay as a state flag is just pigheaded. I am not for tearing down statues, and erasing the past, or eradicating southern distinctiveness, but the past must also serve the future. The current flag doesn’t do that. It was divisive when adopted. It remains divisive today. It doesn’t matter that the majority of Mississippians are white, a state flag should unify, not divide. It isn’t about us versus them or even erasing our southerness. Black Mississippians are Southerners too. They are proud of that. And we should all be proud of being Southern, and have a flag that celebrates that rather than, whether you or I like it, Is one that a large part of the state’s population finds, not unreasonably, to be a symbol of exclusion.

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Posted by MullenBoys

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Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:12 pm to tigerinridgeland

Here is the deal and yes it comes across as “racial profiling” but for example, if police see a car with 3 or 4 black males in it at 4am , and yes, especially in a mostly white neighborhood driving slow down streets, chances are they were going to get pulled over. They base this on statistics. This is why they always call for backup in a situation like that because experience has shown them it does not go well much of the time.

I live in a more upscale area and the black people that live here (maybe about 12%) are successful and wanted to flee the same areas they grew up in because the violence is so high. They are great neighbors and better than white trash.

Point is, statistics do not lie and most people with a desire to succeed want to same thing.

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