Mississippi House Majority Leader State Rep. Philip Gunn (R) and House Minority Leader State Rep. Robert Johnson III (D) join Ayman Mohyeldin after a historic vote to remove the Confederate battle flag from within the State flag. Johnson says the flag has been a "crisis" in his state for generations, while Gunn calls it a "step forward for the State of Mississippi." Aired on 06/29/2020.
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MS House Leaders On 'Embracing Future' After Flag Removal Vote | Hallie Jackson | MSNBC
Now get ride of those old Jim Crow laws.
Shameful Confederate flag. You can’t own slaves anymore
@Jock Young Exactly Jock…now do me a favor and google when those marches happened. Tell me which years their were protests and marches for the confederate flag to come down. 2000, 2004, ’08, ’12, ’16….and wow….i mean..i did go to a Chicago public high school but I’ve always been good at math. You see a trend?
@Cubs MLB Perfect Inning Gaming his statue was already defaced by more than 2 people
@jacq danieles then why are statues of abolitionists being taken down too? The protesters don’t know history.
@SouthSide Chicago take your dumdass back to school then….or watch the video again your argument makes no sense…..but then again you support trump…..I shouldn’t expect you to use the education you received
So, NOW it’s okay for Republicans to wear a tan suit? smh.
To all of you people who are upset about this, Get Over It or get left behind.
@Mike Warenda – can you clarify what you mean by “democratic controlled state”?
😷Please wear mask.😷
Feel free to fly whatever flag you desire in your private residence…public buildings entirely another matter…
@Fred A But the flag has a symbol dedicated to the preservation of slavery. So, what is your point here exactly? 🤔🙄
@Marc Mathieu hey im all for the removal of the flag but the truth still remains the same KKK leaders are in power nothing has changed and anyone who thinks it did is delusional. there is a reason the democrats want to take every ones guns and its not because of school shootings its because they plan to do much worse and they need the people disarmed for what they have planned next. liike I said keep voting for democrats and see where it get you. Im betting in chains again seeing the man who created the KKK was albert pike and he was a democrat. did you get his body removed from under the west staircase of the whithouse yet let me know when you achieve this. ok.
Chose your leaders wisely.
Word I been got that since a teen 🙌🏽💯
Question is why do we fly the Confederate flag anyhow….. That is a defeated part of the USA.. M
@john emeigh – if they were real Americans they’d have flown the Stars & Stripes …
Look up The United Daughters of the Confederacy. This “Ladies’ Group” raised money to get False History Books in Southern Schools. Lied about Slavery. (Slaves liked it!). They raised money for Confederate Statues and taught. LIES to Children.
john emeigh THEY FOUGHT AGAINST AMERICAN SOLDIERS so they could OWN PEOPLE AS SLAVES. THEY FOUGHT TO DESTROY OUR REPUBLIC. THEY WANTED TO EXPAND SLAVERY THRU OUT THE WESTERN STATES.
john emeigh WHERE DID YOU LEARN HISTORY ? YOU HAVE IT WRONG.
@john emeigh yout racist history is not to be celebrated. Your history has millions of lives that you killed. Millions of dead human beings and you are proud of that, really?
Well done Mississippi, welcome to the 21st century.
Right. The Flag of Traitors should have been banned and removed long ago.
WOW!! Look at that White Supremacist and Inbreed Traitor!!!
@SuperBullaMan Did they delete their post? I only see responses from American Patriots so far.
The racist coward likely deleted their post already.
Break out the receptacles for the Confederacy apologists’ tears …
baby steps…this is a biggie….we will overcome…
Blasphemous! Jesus was not white. 😂😂😂
It’s time that the south finds something else to be proud of other than owning human beings, and losing wars.
Lynard Skynard?
@john emeigh
And college football.
Like learn how to read!!
@RowenS Newsroom4am racist like you are the ones that hate when we call out racism and tell the truth about this countries violent oppression origins.
They have nothing else to be proud about. 😂😂😂
Someone needs to tell the big guy behind them that his side lost.
What happened to separation of church and state? They just changed a horrible flag, for a less horrible flag.
Yep yesterday and 155 years ago
@Steve Martin too much sweet tea and mountain dew
@Steve Martin oh my god hahaha
He has been a loser his WHOLE life!!!
More and more people are beginning to understand. Racist are becoming the minority. Keep up the good work!
@Rand Kocher no no and no. People like you are the racist pieces of crap.
The other people are still having the hang over of racism and cannot stop acting as racists. The only thing that needs to be done is to fight it at the voting booth by voting for the right person into the White House. Otherwise nothing will change and this country will never be the way it was.
Honestly the Russian, Chinese and North Korean presidents are laughing and mocking the US president because he is under their control.
The confederate flag is no less racist than the Swastika flag. Good that it has been removed.
If a person witnessed their entire family being killed in the holocaust or your relatives had been killed- you possibly could be offended by the Swastika flag.
@SuperBullaMan I’m looking at him too! Lots of pride that one!
😷Please wear mask.😷
*THE WORST STATES*
*TOP TEN worst states to live in (8 red states, 1 purple state, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia
Purple state: Pennsylvania
Blue state: New Mexico
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
*TOP TEN most violent crime states (8 red states, 2 blue states)*
Red states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
Blue states: New Mexico, Nevada
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/13/most-dangerous-states-in-america-violent-crime-murder-rate/40968963/
*TOP TEN most federally dependent states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wyoming
Blue state: New Mexico
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*TOP TEN worst GDP per capita states (9 red states, 1 blue state)*
Red states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, West Virginia,
Blue state: Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita
*Confederate Symbolism is part of Systemic Racism. POTUS can put all the racist monuments and flags in TRUMP Tower, & Mar-A-Largo, if he loves them so much.*
@SuperBullaMan Right. As you point out, anyone waving the Confederate Flag or supporting it, is nothing more than a dirty, inbred, racist.
You need to continue reminding the scum that their ancestors lost the Civil War. They are only in America because at the time, we forgave the Traitors, instead of exiling them.
@apauls ❗ LOL ‼️
“Systemic Racism” 🤣👌 in a system where many of the top positions of wealth, politics, and power are occupied by prominent people of color. If the “system” is so racist, how do POC occupy many of the top ranks of academia, science, mathematics, astrophysics, the judiciary, law enforcement, military, sports, news, radio, TV, entertainment, politics, medicine, and the list goes on? If the USA is so systemically racist how does the USA have more millionaires than all other countries of the world combined? “Systemic racism” is a lie. The problem the “identity politicians” and lunatics on the left have is the fact that the demand to prove racism exceeds the supply of actual racism occurring in the US so we get the Smollet brothers(Jussie and Bubba Smollet), Covington Kids, the “hands up don’t shoot” lie that was refuted by Barack Obama’s DOJ hate crimes division, and so on and so on and so on.
@Jeremy Backup Let’s also be reminded that white men fought and died for the Union in order to win the Civil War. The Union won guys. Yet BLM morons toppled a statue of Ulysses S. Grant. BLM is a lunatic fringe movement that only wants to destroy the USA. Their leaders are openly calling for the destruction of “white Jesus” statues and “white” churches with stained glass. Of course one must consider the fact that there could be people in those churches. BLM proliferates the language of hatred and genocide.
It’s 2020. It was about time to concede defeat.
and treason
Those who actually fought in the Civil war & lost concede when they waved the white flag (symbol of surrender). Their descendants just didn’t get the memo. Or got it & didn’t read it. Or can’t read, who knows? But that court jester in the background will be holding that now defunct state flag up as long as he can, or until last call for deep fried bacon & cheese triple hamburger with the works & a super size side of cheese fries & a half gallon of “diet” coke to wash it down his throat.
@FRE FLO DO sweet tea and mountain dew
Who else is laughing at the fascist neckbeard protesting all alone in the background?
@jacq danieles Hey moron, slavery was abolished in 1865. The Union won! FYI slavery and an illicit slave trade still exists to this very minute in parts of Africa and Asia. It’s pretty sad when the demand for examples of racism exceeds the supply to the point that the pathetic preachers of victimhood have to go back 130+ years to find a cause to obsess over.
@ST7A Bad Karma looks like you probably misunderstood the comment you are replying to.
I am embarrassed for him.
I was impressed he was so motivated to be off the couch for the flag.
@ST7A Bad Karma – your rant has nothing to do with my comment. You have misinterpreted it. Read what I wrote & retract.
I’m glad Mississippi won’t be flying the traitor flag anymore. Nice to see they let the moron in the background do his thing.
Look at that foreigner in the back.
Duck Dynasty in the back needs to grow up, glad to see these reminiscences of Jim Crowe being removed.
Y’allqeada is so hilariously stupid. They so seem determine to prove it at every opportunity.
Trump sows the seed of racism in society.
More like BLM. They toppled a statue of Ulysses S Grant. That tells us everything we need to know about BLM. They just want to destroy and to blame all of their woes on someone else. Professional victims one and all.