STARKVILLE- — The social and cultural ripples from the “Black Lives Matter” movement continue, from the amazing saga of the taking down of the Mississippi state flag to the ongoing debate over moving or removing monuments and changing building names on edifices named for individuals who don’t pass muster through the prism of racial justice.
Sid Salter
One of the most discussed possible successor designs for a new Mississippi state flag is the so-called “Stennis flag” or “Hospitality flag” designed and promoted by the late senator’s granddaughter Laurin Stennis. Late in the state flag fight, Stennis voluntarily pulled her name away from her flag design when liberal critics blasted adoption of a new Mississippi flag from the progeny of someone those critics see only as a segregationist and racist.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7rbHAnZyrZZOWua16wqikaKegnruqu81omqikpaK7qr%2FTrGasrJWju6q%2FjKWcoJmTrnqktMClo56ml5qxbrXNZpmlmZOgeq211Z6qZqWRqcGmvoympq%2BdnZq7tXvAq6uim5yarHqBlmlwbpmTYrBzr5FmaGqdkWKFc37AZphsnmNlgnd9lGppcmaYqbqt