The Mississippi legislature has cleared the way for the removal of its 126-year-old state flag featuring a Confederate war emblem
that he will sign a bill to change the flag. “The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new state flag,” he wrote. “The argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself and it’s time to end it. If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it.”
Saturday’s vote is the result of a widespread campaign to pressure the legislature to change the flag, following a national call for racial justice after weeks of Black Lives Matter national protests. On Thursday morning, a group including college football coaches and Christian ministers occupied the Mississippi Capitol to lobby for the flag to be changed.
A week earlier, the Southeastern Athletic Conference, which includes Ole Miss and Mississippi State, warned that it will not hold championship events in the state until the flag is changed. A day later, the NCAA issued a similar warning. “There is no place in college athletics or the world for symbols or acts of discrimination and oppression,” NCAA Board of Governors Chairman Michael Drake said in a statement.
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