{"id":211583,"date":"2019-04-27T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211583"},"modified":"2019-04-27T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T05:02:07","slug":"mississippi-flag-ordered-out-of-park-near-statue-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/27\/mississippi-flag-ordered-out-of-park-near-statue-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi flag ordered out of park near Statue of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mississippi flag includes the Confederate battle emblem in the upper left corner. The emblem has a red field topped by a blue X, dotted with 13 white stars. It has appeared on Mississippi’s flag since 1894. (File Photo<\/a> By Tony Webster\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday ordered that the Mississippi flag, which carries a Confederate emblem, be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n

Murphy ordered the removal of Mississippi’s flag from a display of each state’s flag at Liberty State Park, a preserve of more than 1,200 acres in Jersey City that overlooks Ellis Island and Lady Liberty.<\/p>\n

Murphy is a first-term Democrat and a self-styled progressive who regularly cited the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue’s base that invites immigrants to America.<\/p>\n

New Jersey, he said, is rooted in diversity, and the flag doesn’t fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Confederate symbol displayed on the Mississippi state flag is reprehensible and does not reflect our values of inclusivity and equality,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Mississippi flag includes the Confederate battle emblem in the upper left corner. The emblem has a red field topped by a blue X, dotted with 13 white stars. It has appeared on Mississippi’s flag since 1894.<\/p>\n

A message was left seeking comment with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican.<\/p>\n

Confederate symbols have been widely debated across the South, particularly since June 2015, when a white supremacist killed nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as in 2017, when violence erupted as white nationalists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia<\/p>\n

Murphy said he made the decision after Democratic state Sen. Sandra Cunningham raised the issue with him.<\/p>\n

Cunningham said in a statement that the flag symbolized \u201can era of hate, violence, and division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mississippians voted to keep the flag in a 2001 statewide election.<\/p>\n

But several Mississippi cities and counties and all eight of the state’s public universities have stopped flying it in recent years amid criticism that the battle emblem is a racist reminder of slavery and segregation. Supporters of the flag say it represents history.<\/p>\n

Bryant has said that if the Mississippi flag is going to be redesigned, it should be decided in another statewide election.<\/p>\n

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Catalini reported from Trenton, New Jersey. Associated Press writer Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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