“As a proud citizen of Mississippi, it is my personal hope that the state government will consider changing the state flag”, Cochran said.
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“This is the right thing to do”, Bentley said, according to the report. “It’s a historical flag”, she said.
“We have determined that the Confederate flag violates our ads policies, which don’t allow content that’s generally perceived as expressing hate toward a particular group”, a Google representative said in an emailed statement sent to Reuters. They were put up in the early ’90s after then-Gov.
Pressure is growing in South Carolina to take down the Confederate flag that flies on the front lawn of its State House in Columbia, also alongside a Confederate war memorial.
Confederate flags are coming down across the United States – from the state capitols of South Carolina and Alabama to the state flag of Mississippi, with many companies including Amazon, eBay and Alibaba banning sale of the flag.
The most innocuous interpretation of the Confederate flag is one of southern pride: of defiance during the Civil War, of tribute to the lives lost and of a shared set of distinctly southern values. The governor says the future of the flags has not been decided, adding that they might end up in the First White House of the Confederacy. He said the Sons of Confederate Veterans will grieve with their families.
Rich came down squarely on the side of taking the flag down.
He said it would be up to Mississippi’s legislature and other state officials to make any decisions about the flag. “I have taxes to raise, we have work to do”.
(William chumley/south carolina state representative) “i think the misuse and the miseducation of the flag has probably pushed it to this point”. Major retailers are halting sales of the Confederate flag after the June 17, 2015 shooting deaths of nine black church members in South Carolina. Virginia plans to remove the image of the Confederate flag from all state-issued license plates.
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When the flags went back up, the pole where the confederate flag once flew remained empty. Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president on the steps of the Alabama state capitol building.
