<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sad/funny. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:42 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">“The War of Northern Aggression” sounds like some serious Lost Cause propaganda.<br>
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> On Jul 3, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Robert G. Kennedy III, PE via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> The Civil War (aka The War of Northern Aggression aka The Late Unpleasantness) comes after that.<br>
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> K3<br>
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>> On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 21:00:59 -0700, Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> For John Clark, the next milestone will be when the number of dead<br>
>> exceeds the civil war casualties, something around 850,000. Given<br>
>> that 1.1 million was the bottom of one set of estimates, it seems<br>
>> fairly likely.<br>
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