I had conversation yesterday with a man that truely wanted to understand why I am against men that hate my state’s heritage.

The flag of “1894” never flew in anger, but in contrast, the flag of the United States upheld slavery from its very beginning. The flags of Europe that bought and sold enslaved people long before we were a nation are the flags that, if any, should pay the cost of slavery. In the African continent, the blacks that captured and sold their people needed to pay the price; without them, the black people wouldn’t have been enslaved people to start with. Slavery itself has been around as long as men have been able to breathe air.

The hate of black people in the USA and all other parts of the world was never just a southern situation. The most significant difference, especially in the south that people were very vocal about and took longer to accept and make equal blacks into normal society. All areas besides the south caused undue harm and unjust behavior,just because of color.

The south needs not to accept the blame given not in the name of truth and righteousness but to devalue and make our heritage uglier than theirs. We are in a political war to remove the independence that southerners have always had; they want to remove any symbol of our ties to our fathers, grandfathers, and their fathers. The removal of the flag of “1894” by these scallywags in Jackson without a vote of the people as promised by Governor Tate Reeves; our state has been taken over by politicians that have bought into or were paid, to believe our forefathers, the so-called inventors of slavery and evil need all symbols of their greatness removed, flag, the statues of war heroes and their very names erased from state history.

These men, in their wisdom, realized that “voters’ have short memories and forgive quickly. Their removal of the flag of “1894” before a vote of the people was to ensure the ‘kickback’ wouldn’t hurt their re-election. The Governor is trying to put distances between him and the other two amigos, that if he vetoed they would override, the lie my friend is that some of the Mississippi Senators wouldn’t agree until the Governor said he would sign, which he did four or so days before the “the senate vote” this makes the governor look and smell like he is a liar.

Note: Fellow Mississippians, we citizens had one vote for the” flag of 1894” in 2001 showed 65 percent of the voters approved of the flag ; nothing happened; it wasn’t the flag scally wags wanted.