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I I could barely keep myself from bursting into tears when Aunjanue said in her member talk that it was one of my @JxnFreePress pieces about Confederate lies that activated her into fighting to change #MSFlag. That still warms my heart. Thank you, friend. ♥️
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A tweet from 2021. RIP, #CrystalWelch, one of so many hero women in Mississippi spreading live and fighting the necessary fight. 💜🥂🌹
She didn’t even get proper credit for #msflag in a state where white men jockeyed for it, except for @ashtonpittman again lifting up women.
Last night, @ashtonpittman dropped a piece revealing how a young Black Mississippi attorney changed the course of #MSFlag history—in 19 days. Read how Crystal Welch and friends got the magnolia flag on the pole, and why.
And as usual, Ashton includes vital history:
Read this whole viral thread. Note that @ashtonpittman did #msflag coverage before #msleg took it up that revealed the real history. After they changed flag, he did series of stories about where credit really lay: Black Mississippians of all ages working for decades to change it.
NEW: Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism is calling for the state to bring back its old Confederate-themed state flag.
"A lot of our people fought and died under that flag," the Union County Republican said at a political rally.
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@wspittman @andreamatranga @ashtonpittman @kimberlydgriffi Yes, I do too. I would argue explicitly, to be honest. I mean, false claims of responsibility for changing #MSFlag, for instance, hasn't sat well with Black readers. I still know people who get angry when that gaffe comes up.
@ritaresarian @jallen1985 @RussLatino @firebug2006 @HamnerPam "Consensus-building" is what the #OneLake crowd insists they're doing. Let's see how that plays out.
One thing is true with "consensus": Using power/status to silence, gaslight and express "disappointment" in critics, and falling back on #msflag as an excuse, won't build squat.
So tired of faux-genteel white men making systemic power moves in Mississippi continually wanting a cookie and a pass for being supportive for #msflag finally changing. So they’re done with race stuff. It was predictable. @kimberlydgriffi and me in 2029: https://t.co/v1Z9WRE0d0
@RevelsHiram Remember @kimberlydgriffi and I warned y’all about these “hero” white pols who voted to change #msflag many decades too late. That would become their lifetime get-out-of-jail free card: https://t.co/v1Z9WRE0d0
“But I voted to change the flag”
After #msflag changed many decades too late, @kimberlydgriffi and I wrote this @guardian column antivipatimg white pols using their long-overdue vote as an excuse for overtly racist and harmful behavior. We told y’all: https://t.co/v1Z9WRE0d0
Stories of Black people fighting these systems over time. For instance, THE story that was barely told here about changing of #msflag was the decades-long efforts by Black Mississippians of all ages to change it: We told it in 3 parts: https://t.co/mjfjix4wmF
Dicey early months of pandemic with access coverage helping governor to push false narratives even about MFP reporting, and then even around #msflag credit. Now still danger of backsliding, but there is progress toward more real journalism even among some TV reporters. Progress.
People are surfacing my @NBCNewsTHINK column from last year. I kinda laid it out bare. One #msleg member was so pissed about it that he tweeted at me that, sputter, they took down #msflag, you know!?!
Dude.
@ashtonpittman https://t.co/qLDgnrB84q
The Supreme Court biographer wrote this article. So my young journalist friends: let’s talk about framing. Who’s pov do we get access to? Who is the author trying to frame as a hero? Who are the sources quoted? Why might it serve the author well to use this framing?
House Speaker Philip Gunn, whom some white Mississippians lionize as the hero in changing #MSFlag (bites lip), is the immediate past chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council. He is also the main driver of ending Mississippi's income tax.
It started with school shut downs. Then parents began vocalizing concerns in public comments that captured the national spotlight. And then conversations over CRT and curriculum became a contest between school boards and parental authority. Listen below!
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@JoelCarterMS I'm not gaslighting. I'm talking about the flag that is visible in the graphic you posted RIGHT ABOVE. Stop trying to change the subject and just answer. Is that not the old #msflag? If not, what it is?
I do wonder who the hell made this graphic using the old racist #msflag. It doesn't bother with the naked subtlety of a dog whistle.
Today, the Mississippi Senate passed a bill preventing CRT from entering our school curriculum. The debate was heated at times and passionate on both sides of the issue. The bottom line is all kids are equal and deserve to be treated that way.
You gotta love House Speaker Philip Gunn taking victory laps for changing #MSFlag, then within weeks vowing to go after so-called "critical race theory" to appease racists who don't want Mississippi's race history out of the closet.
This is sadly very, very, very predictable.
NEW: After a year of applause for his role in changing the old Confederate-themed state flag, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn vowed before a mostly white crowd yesterday that he will fight to ban "critical race theory" from Mississippi classrooms.
https://t.co/fomKpLKFXw
I'm tell you, F.I.R.E.
Start with this thread and then read the story by @nickjudin and @ashtonpittman that gives credit where it's overdue in a real way, not as an add-in: brilliant young Black activists who ensured that the old #MSFlag would fall.
NEW: The young Black activists who last year organized Mississippi's largest march since the 1960s demanded that the Legislature change the state flag.
It happened.
Now, they want to change the state.
Latest with @NickJudin. https://t.co/DORV5W4Flt
NEW: “The flag wasn’t changed because we thought it was ugly. The flag wasn’t changed because it got old. The flag was changed because it was racist. I don’t understand how much simpler we can make it." —@maisiebrownJXN in Part 3 of #MSFlag: A Year Later.
https://t.co/vH0lkrpPlg
NEW: “The flag wasn’t changed because we thought it was ugly. The flag wasn’t changed because it got old. The flag was changed because it was racist. I don’t understand how much simpler we can make it." —@maisiebrownJXN in Part 3 of #MSFlag: A Year Later.
https://t.co/vH0lkrpPlg
JOIN NOW! @MaisieBrownJxn talks to @kimberlydgriffi + @DonnerKay to talk education innovation, anti-racism work, and how she and other young Black Mississippians led huge #BLMSipp march + helped force #MSFlag down
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