A Republican former governor now advocates replacing the Confederate symbol with another flag design.
President Trump said they are “looking at long-term sentences” for people attempting to remove monuments.JACKSON, Miss. -- University coaches and Christian ministers filled the Mississippi Capitol on Thursday, urging legislators to seize the moment and remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag while Americans are reckoning with difficult discussions about race and history.
“I was proud as Governor to add ‘In God We Trust’ to the State Seal,” Republican Bryant wrote on Twitter. “It will make a great Mississippi State Flag.” Mississippi voters chose to keep the flag in a 2001 statewide election, but the design has remained contentious. Legislative Black Caucus members say lawmakers should tackle the issue because another statewide flag vote would be divisive.
The NCAA said last week that it is expanding a policy that bans states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its sponsored events. The announcement came a day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag. The current NCAA ban, in place since 2001, applies to what the NCAA calls predetermined sites, such as for basketball tournament games.
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