[ExI] you'll never see this again

[William Flynn Wallace]

To me, it's just so funny.  As you may or may not know. Mississippi was the
last state to have in its state flag the Confederate Battle Flag.  The
blacks, the business community, the religious community have been after the
legislature for quite a few years to change it, like some other states have
done.

As you may now know, the legislature has voted to change it.  Why?  It
wasn't any of the above-named groups, nor was it Floyd.  It was the NCAA.
They told MIssissippi that no conference games or playoffs or really
anything sanctioned by them could occur until the flag changed.

So it did.  Does that give you any idea of the mind set here?  Racism comes
before religion (even here is very religious MIssissippi), business ( so
we're poor - we can stand it) and of course the feelings of Blacks, but it
doesn't come before sports.

Sad/funny.  bill w

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:42 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> “The War of Northern Aggression” sounds like some serious Lost Cause
> propaganda.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> > On Jul 3, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > no, the next milestone is WWII.  The WWII Memorial on the Wash. Mall
> says 384,000 military dead, IIRC, but Wiki says American deaths
> attributable to the war were 419,400.  The curves are diverging so wildly
> that I dare not hazard a guess when we'll hit that milestone.
> >
> > The Civil War (aka The War of Northern Aggression aka The Late
> Unpleasantness) comes after that.
> >
> > K3
> >
> >> On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 21:00:59 -0700, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> For John Clark, the next milestone will be when the number of dead
> >> exceeds the civil war casualties, something around 850,000.  Given
> >> that 1.1 million was the bottom of one set of estimates, it seems
> >> fairly likely.
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