{"id":11187,"date":"2020-06-19T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/southeastern-conference-wants-mississippi-to-change-flag\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:22:00","slug":"southeastern-conference-wants-mississippi-to-change-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/southeastern-conference-wants-mississippi-to-change-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"#Southeastern Conference wants Mississippi to change flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Southeastern Conference wants Mississippi to change flag<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 19, 2020 |<\/span> 1:22am <\/p>\n

\n JACKSON, Miss. \u2014 The Southeastern Conference is considering barring league championship events in Mississippi unless the state changes its Confederate-based flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is past time for change to be made to the flag of the State of Mississippi,\u201d Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement Thursday. \u201cOur students deserve an opportunity to learn and compete in environments that are inclusive and welcoming to all. In the event there is no change, there will be consideration of precluding Southeastern Conference championship events from being conducted in the State of Mississippi until the flag is changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCAA has already said it would not schedule postseason events in Mississippi because of the state flag.<\/p>\n

National protests about racial injustice have renewed debate about Confederate symbols. Mississippi has the last state flag that includes the battle emblem: a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars. White supremacists put the symbol on the flag in 1894 during the backlash to black political power that developed during Reconstruction.<\/p>\n

During a Black Lives Matter protest June 5 outside the Mississippi Governor\u2019s Mansion in downtown Jackson, thousands of people cheered as an 18-year-old organizer, Maisie Brown, called for the removal of all Confederate symbols in the state, including from the flag.<\/p>\n

Bipartisan coalitions of state lawmakers have been trying to build momentum to change the flag, but Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has said repeatedly that if the banner is to be redesigned, it should be done by the state\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n

People who voted in a 2001 election chose to keep the flag rather that replace it with a design that did not include the Confederate emblem.<\/p>\n

All of Mississippi\u2019s public universities and several cities and counties have stopped flying the state flag in recent years because of the emblem. The state has two SEC schools \u2014 the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University.<\/p>\n

Leaders at both universities said Thursday that the state should change the flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cMississippi needs a flag that represents the qualities about our state that unite us, not those that still divide us,\u201d Ole Miss Chancellor Glenn Boyce and athletic director Keith Carter said in a joint statement. \u201cWe support the SEC\u2019s position for changing the Mississippi state flag to an image that is more welcoming and inclusive for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum said in a statement that he respects Sankey\u2019s position. Keenum said he wrote to state elected officials June 12 telling them that the university\u2019s students, faculty and administrators have been on record in favor of changing the flag since 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe letter said, in part, that our flag should be unifying, not a symbol that divides us,\u201d Keenum said. \u201cI emphasized that it is time for a renewed, respectful debate on this issue.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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