Mayor of Tupelo supports removing the Mississippi state flag

The mayor of Tupelo supports removing the Mississippi state flag while majority of residents do not. Mayor Jason Shelton posted on LinkedIn, "I wholly support the City of Tupelo taking down the current state flag and it being changed on a state level. There is no logical explanation for Mississippi’s leaders to continue to hold on to this symbol of racism and oppression. It hurts our state on every level."

My reply on LinkedIn to the mayor's post...

The US flag flew over legalized slavery far longer than the Confederate "national" flag, yet little to nothing is said about either banner. In addition, the US flag flew over Jim Crow laws, segregation, other horrific acts against African-Americans as well the near-annihilation of Indigenous-Americans along with confiscating much of the continent, the internment of Japanese-Americans as their homes and farms were looted, the imprisonment of Muslim-Americans without due process while tortured, the ill treatment of every wave of immigrants of all races, the imperial expansion arguably starting with the Spanish-American / Filipino-American Wars as two examples among others, and obviously more.

Yet worthy of removal as many insist, the Confederate "battle" flag and perhaps other symbolic versions of St Andrew's Cross. I do not excuse the Mississippi state flag from consideration and criticism, but historically, logically therefore consistently the US flag should first be considered and criticized before the Confederate "battle" and "national" flags.

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).