Good.
The prominent confederate âsymbolâ on that flag makes it as abhorrent as a Nazi swastika.
Too many died fighting to eliminate that symbol. Too many lived under bondage with that symbol. Too many were terrorized with that symbol during the 160+ years since it first flew.
The Old Southâwhy none of us can have nice things.
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: âIâm not about to call out Mississippi for its racist, treasonous symbolism or even acknowledge it for what it is, because I depend on racist traitors for my own votes, so in order to avoid the issue altogether Iâm going to essentially punish everyone for it.â
committee on House Administration? sounds like code for house keeper and homemaker⌠pretty sure that would be seen as a good way to prove Republicans take women seriously and can put them in leadershipâŚ
tough decision⌠remove one state flag or replace ALL state flags with $.25 piecesâŚ
The Confederate Flag is a symbol of treason, sedition, and violence to fellow Americans. People fighting under that flag caused the deaths of over a half million people at a time when the total US population was 31.4 million people. Today, withour population of 320 million, that would be like losing 5 million Americans in a war.
People fighting under that flag killed President Lincoln, established the KKK after they lost, and continue to believe that the Federal Government has no power over them.
The Union decided for the sake of uniting all Americans and healing the wounds of the Civil War to allow Southern states to reenter the Union as sovereign states, allowed Confederate Secessionists to reclaim their US citizenship, and even allowed them to keep and display Confederate symbols as part of their Heritage. I believe this was a major mistake. We should have hung the leaders and architects of this Treason, and forever banished all symbols and artifacts of the Confederacy.
Good for Candice Miller. That sounds like a sensible solution.
Oh thank god, another chance for rednecks to act victimized.
â[I]t is not the business of the federal government to dictate what flag each state flies.â
Even if theyâre treason flags.
Flown by traitors.
Who violently attacked the United States.
And got their a$$es righteously kicked.
I sure asshat heads will explode as if STATES RIGHTS (by gory) trump anything else and they have a ârightâ to fly in the nations capital!!! Letâs see âŚthe Constitution? No,ummmmâŚthe Declaration? NoâŚI 'm sure itâs here SOMEPLACEâŚ
A frigginâ men. This âstateâs rightâ punt that these GOP cowards use to avoid dealing with issues like this, because of fear of pissing off the Tea Party is pathetic.
âŚwill not go back up in a tunnel under the U.S. Capitol, nor will any of the other flags for U.S, states and territoriesâŚ
So, just like grade school: one jackass has to go and ruin it for everyone.
" it is not the business of the federal government to dictate what flag each state flies."
Classically dishonest misdirection from these fucknuts,and of course a retreat to their always-last-refuge of âstatesâ rightsâ that continues to this day because of the Southâs inability and unwillingness to admit the Civil War is over and they lost. This isnât even remotely about the federal govât dictating what flag each state flies. It has nothing whatsoever to do with that. That issue is not even in the same fucking universe as the real issue here.
The real issue here is the federal govât deciding which state flags the federal govât is willing to fly on federal property. Mississippi is welcome to fly the Traitorâs Flag and the federal govât is welcome to tell Mississippi that so long as it flies the Traitorâs Flag then, as the government it is insulting with its promotion of treason and worship of historical treason, it will not allow the flag to be flown on federal grounds or in federal buildings. If Mississippi and the racist GOP/Teatroll Nation feel like that is 'telling them what to do," then perhaps they need to weigh what is more important to themâŚclinging to that history of racism and treason or feeling like they are being considered equal to the other 49 states (despite being 50th in pretty much everything) by the federal govât.
As a professor of mine said when I was in college, fifty years ago, âThe trouble with Reconstruction was that there wasnât enough of it.â
Remarkable discernment and courage from a Republican.
basically throwing the baby with the bathwater in taking down EVERY flag
The Post also notes that the Mississippi flag remains hung in a tunnel on the Senate side of the Capitol that leads to the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Thatâs the kind of lynching I could go for.
The stupid is strong in these ones. Strong.
And this punishes anyone⌠how? What earthly value to you and me are those flags in the tunnel? Those quarters seem like much more attractive ways to âhonorâ states, if it honors anyone for his/her state to have a little piece of decor in a tunnel very few of us will ever visit, and of which I, at least, have never seen even a picture, nor wanted to. At least there was only one Churchill statue to fuss about removing.
Oh relax. The point is that there is some value attached to thisâŚotherwise refusal to allow MSâs flag to fly would not be âtelling MS what to doâ or whatever. The military style justice of âpunishing everyoneâ for the transgressions of one was just a way of avoiding having to acknowledge that MSâs flag is racist and celebrate treason, and I think I made that point quite clear.