Democrat Senator Says Confederate Flag Painting in Mississippi Capitol Must Be Replaced With Slaves | The Gateway Pundit

In a portray on the Mississippi Capitol rotunda dome, two white-haired generals are seen elevating a Accomplice flag. Bradford Blackmon, a former Soccer participant turned Liberal Democrat Senator, desires to alter that.

The Mississippi Free Press reports,

“The legislative physique decided about three years in the past, additionally because of public strain, that the flag that has the Accomplice emblem in it shouldn’t symbolize Mississippi,” Sen. Bradford Blackmon, D-Canton, informed the Mississippi Free Press on Wednesday.

On Feb. 2, he launched Senate Invoice 2217, which might require the State to take away the portray and arrange a fee to suggest a substitute. Blackmon mentioned the substitute ought to symbolize all Mississippians.

Mississippi Code § 55-15-81 (2019) prohibits eradicating or changing artwork, monuments or areas in public locations that symbolize earlier wars the U.S. was concerned in, together with the Civil Battle. S.B. 2217 would amend the code so as to add that solely the Legislature might make an act to authorize repurposing these dedications.

Below the invoice sponsored by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, a fee will comprise of two senators, two state representatives, and representatives from the Mississippi Division of Archives and Historical past, the Mississippi Financial Council, and the Mississippi Arts Fee.

Throughout public conferences, the fee would decide whether or not the portray needs to be changed with work of… watch for it, slaves.

“When assessing choices for a picture to interchange the Accomplice flag within the Capitol rotunda, give critical consideration to an outline of the slaves who contributed to the development of the State Capitol Constructing,” S.B. 2217 says.

In line with Blackmon, he didn’t discover the portray till final November or December, when the constructing was being renovated. When he noticed the Accomplice imagery, he claims he needed to double-check and ask somebody if they’d ever seen it earlier than.

“I’m not attempting to spark some controversy behind it,” Blackmon mentioned. “We mentioned that the flag with (the Accomplice image) in there shouldn’t be a illustration of the state, then I simply don’t suppose the precise battle flag itself being raised to the highest of the dome needs to be in there both.”

S.B. 2217 is within the Guidelines Committee, chaired by Sen. Dean Kirby, R-Pearl. If it passes out of committee and the Senate votes in approval, then Gov. Tate Reeves would wish to signal the invoice into regulation.

Blackmon defined in a follow-up interview with the Mississippi Free Press that he wished to honor each the slaves who “constructed” the outdated Capitol constructing within the 1800s in addition to the newly freed Blacks who constructed the present Capitol constructing from 1900 to 1903.

It’s not 1942 anymore, guys.