Mayor Johnny Magee of Laurel, Miss. signed an executive order to take down the Confederate flag flying in his city, saying "time for waiting is over." Rev. Al Sharpton discusses the impact of the order.
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'Time For Waiting Is Over': Mississippi Mayor Orders Removal Of Confederate Flag | MSNBC
Face it the Confederates and Nazxi’s started war with the USA and LOST so no flags for the losers they lost the right!!
@T. R. Campbell do you know what the Dunning-Kruger Effect is?
@Gunt Perkins – Do you? Sounds like you need to get to know somebody with an IQ of over 80.
@T. R. Campbell Human trafficking and keeping people in slave conditions is underground. The victims are too scared to be public. They would be deported if discovered.
TheRiggz666 It rings a very far off bell but just to be sure I looked it up and believe me I have run into these people throughout my life. I think we can find a lot of them in the entrenched or corrupt political class. Many members of Congress would fit the definition very well.
In the past many were generally identified and removed in Masters and Doctorate programs. I’m not so sure today. Very likely today which people would be rewarded with a tenured position. Thanks for the post.
@T. R. Campbell Wish you and your ‘kind’ would STFU
Time to Go! It’s been a LONG time coming!
The Trump Depression is about to rally take off …so hang on!
@Eric Echols Sr. And they will do whatever it takes to win. Any amount of corruption and crime is justified if done in the name of “jesus”. They are the real puppet masters behind Trump and Pence.
Typical republican. Screw up everything and leave it for the democrats to clean up. Case and point: Obama cleaning up shrub’s mess.
@Bob Loblaw – We know that’s right behind Pence. However, I would say that they know “good and well” that Trump is playing them, but they don’t care. Yet, these “Christians” aren’t following their own teachings 🤷🏽♂️👊🏽✌🏽
@Eric Echols Sr. Nah, Trump is too stupid and self-centred to play anyone. He was put there as a distraction while they dismantle government and stack the courts with unqualified judges. They are also taking over the school systems so as to rewrite history and teach their own dogma.
@Bob Loblaw those judges will die of natural causes
There’s gonna be a lot of unhappy racists particularly one big fat one in the White House today.
He literally could care less about this stuff. He’s from New York, lol. All of this is red meat is for his primate base. If Donald Trump thought calling George Washington, a loser with wooden teeth would secure his re -election, you better believe he’d be the first one trying to rip his statue down. The man has no principles… He has ambitions.
@Truth and Lyfe TrustGod! I don’t even know what this means… I don’t think you do either.
He’s constantly unhappy.
@Edgar Nunez Nah son, just highlighting the fact that on a day when another 600 Americans died of corona, and russians are putting bounties on our soldiers, the Commander in Bleach is on a golf holiday instead of, you know, doing his job. 🙄
FirstRyan Murray True Dat !! And chump whining playing the victim narcissism thinks he’s been treated worse than Lincoln 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😷😷😷😷😷😷
To see our country change in such a way in the short span that its changing gives me hope that we can all live up to the name of our country the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Keep pushing forward we still have soo much more to do
TaylorKnit That’s beautiful.
Couldn’t be said any better.
There have been a lot of events lately. Whether the “change” is long-lasting remains to be seen. I fear it will be, and that American culture, reasoned thinking, and civil discourse will be hijacked and destroyed by a minority of vocal, self-rightous fanatics who live only for their next serotonin rush.
@RST UV not at all certain how you feel or what you think about the situation America is in, the prospects for the future and what you suggest we do going forward.
Love this 🙏❤🙏
Long overdue
Time to end the hate.
Righteous Based
@Righteous Curse yer own house.
J Batson Huh?
@Men in black Just what I say. You want my country to turn it’s back on Israel you do it and curse your own House. And while we’re at it . You bunch of communist. You demand respect for your causes and culture and heritage forgetting that you WILL respect me and mine. I can’t stand you people. No compromise with communist. And some of you are not communist, yer just stupid. Because puppets for communist!
J Batson Remember the USS Liberty
*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.*
Gee, I’m sure he really appreciates your permission on that?! 😂
@muhammad was a pedophile caravan robber Russian communism and Chinese communism did NOT reform or defund the “police”. So your little dem conspiracy theory is wack. Under communism police authority and brutality increased exponentially. How do you think they rounded up the majority of that 100 million people? If you’re going to be a bit at least come out with good theories that aren’t so easily disproved when a normal person thinks about the garbage you say. Besides, you’re the one too scared to use your legit name and would rather cower behind your cute little moniker. Real people dont have to hide their opinions behind some fake assed little account
@muhammad was a pedophile caravan robber ” the commmunist script from Russia”
there is no communist script that calls for abolishing the police.
clearly youre a Chinese bot.
Eric Hampshire , Here’s a plausible scenario. The Democrats would try to take the ideological high ground and appeal to the United Nations and NATO for socialist support, claiming that America has been taken over in a illegal election. The sanctuary cities will really separate from State control. Some may be hoping that minority’s would join the fight with the Socialists. How is that for fiction?
@Mike Morgan ” Here’s a plausible scenario”
not a plausible scenario.
“How is that for fiction?”
well, it is completely detached from reality
YES!!!! The time for waiting is OVER! Time for the traitors to take their place in the dust bins of history. They LOST. It is high time this country reflects THAT!
Mr. Mayor you have nothing to apologize for. We the people of America stand with you!
@red is for freedom blue is for losers So you stand with cowardly traitors who betrayed our country?? That’s good to know. I honestly can’t imagine any other country honoring those that betrayed or did ostensible harm to it. Honoring the Confederate army in the US is like if Germany kept honoring Hitler and the Nazi regime. They don’t, and accepted responsibility for it. It wasn’t hard for them, they just worked to educate their students on what their country’s wrongdoings in the past. Why can’t the US, the defined “greatet country in the world” (now the biggest JOKE in the world) do the same???
@Tasha Glam “So you stand with cowardly traitors who betrayed our country??”
just to be clear, those traitors that betrayed our country weren’t cowards, they went to war for their idiotic beliefs.
I started tearing up when Mayor Magee became emotional. I can’t imagine what it was like growing up in Mississippi!
Australia stands with you
>We
Bless the mayor and its citizens.
I gods. Mayor did this. Not god.
The Confederates committed an act of treason the moment they opened fire on US troops stationed at Fort Sumter South Carolina. So It’s okay to call it treason, because that’s exactly what it was..
And furthermore, If any group were to attack a US military base today, it would STILL be an act of treason. So would we erect statues and monuments to celebrate any treasonous group that would do that today? I think not.
No American military base should be named after a member of the same group that attacked an American military base.
Anyone who denies these fundamental facts, is openly defending treason against America, as well as defending slavery, and those who fought to hold on to it.
Semper Fi…
@Rob K Yes, but you do not. Do you believe slavery would be acceptable today had the south won and written history?
@David J It’s not your fault…I blame the American education system. I think you should sue. Or were you just dropped on your head?
@Deadbeat Donny Of course not!….it only underlines what I thought….education just totally passed you by and you never noticed! You’re reading my words but their not managing to reach what passes for you’re brain. Just go back to you’re Lego.
@Rob K Someone is super pleased with their own inane thoughts. Your (cough) point is shallow and asinine yet you believe it to be some kind of deep truth. You’re adorable, kitten! 💋
It was both treason and terrorism yet the south seems to worship those losers
your suppose to be ONE NATION under ONE FLAG…
@Shane Fladhammer <--- F*** stupid.
ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL’S FLAG
@Shane Fladhammer black lives matter did not fight for slavery.
@Shane Fladhammer Do we need flags at all?
America is not a nation
trump cares more about statues of dead traitors than live Americans.
He doesn’t care about either, I don’t imagine. He’s just working the crowd.
Statues? That’s a weird way to spell Israel
@T. R. Campbell – God you’re dumb – are these people in CA taking up arms against the USA? No? Then STFU…
@A S – People like you never understand that those statues are propaganda – the subjects are presented as great, powerful men of wisdom and vision, when in fact they were slavers and traitors. If someone wants to REPLACE a propaganda piece with one presenting an honest depiction of a slaver and traitor – THAT would be real history – not selling a lie…
@RowenS Newsroom4am – I see many, many people wearing masks – so what’s your point?
Trump will be annoyed he thinks more of them statues than he does Americans.
liberals care more about violent criminals than they do veterans.
And you think more of communism anti american criminals .the statues are better then you anti america trash are.much better to bad we cant tear you down.derke why dont you move to commie china.
@red is for freedom blue is for losers The statues are of people who America fought against you moron, your either for the stars and stripes or the confederate flag, can’t have both
@red is for freedom blue is for losers lmfaooo this isnt your country you clown go back to whatever hole you climbed out of or just get the rona boomer
@ChimpCube chimpcube confederate traitor trash are NOT VETERANS
Good for this mayor. It takes some courage to take this action in a state like Mississippi. Keep this freedom train rolling.
YES YALL STAND BEHIND THE MAYOR….MUCH PEOPLE MUCH POWER…ITS NOT JUST BLACK…BUT OTHER COLOR IF PEOPLE WANT EQUALITY TOO.OTHER PEOPLE WANT EQUAL WAGES TOO.. OTHER PEOPLE WANT BETTER JOBS TOO….
If we always as a people look back we can never move forward.
Bring down Confederate flags and Confederate Status
Ah. The Confederate flag of losers
Confederates: removal of the flag violates my rights!!!
Everyone: are you sure about that?
Mayor Johnny Magee is a man of courage.