A lawmaker says vote is an opportunity to find a flag that’s unifying for all Mississippians. FMTNews Mississippi
A man stands outside the state Capitol with other current Mississippi flag supporters in Jackson on June 28.
“This is an opportunity for us to find a flag that’s unifying for all Mississippians, and that’s what we’re going to do,” House speaker Philip Gunn, a Republican, told cheering legislators, the Clarion Ledger newspaper reported. That history has been the subject of a renewed and fiery national conversation since the death in May of unarmed African-American George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.
Two years before that, Mississippi voted overwhelmingly to retain its current flag, hailed by its defenders as a proud symbol of southern heritage and history. Bringing the state together, he wrote on Twitter, “will be harder than recovering from tornadoes, harder than historic floods … even harder than battling the coronavirus.”
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