Black judge removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem from court

[Luiz 4,253]

Carlos Moore made history this week when he took to the bench as the first African-American municipal judge in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Then he made a ruckus.

On his first day on the job, Moore ordered officials to remove the Mississippi state flag from his courtroom, because that flag contains the Confederate emblem in its upper left corner.

"It was such a great feeling to see the police officer drag the despicable flag from the courtroom during open court. Great first day!" the judge posted on Facebook on Monday.

In Moore's eyes, the Mississippi state flag doesn't stand for justice and instead shows the state supports the Confederacy's legacy of slavery, he told CNN affiliate WATN-TV in Memphis.

Another factor in Moore's decision was the fact that a lot of the people who will stand before him in court will be African-Americans.

"Most of the people that appear before me will be African-American, and they need to feel that the courtroom is gonna be a place they can get justice," he said. "That flag does not stand for justice."

It isn't the first time Moore has fought the flag. He filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the state from flying the flag and to rule that its design is unconstitutional. But US District Judge Carlton W. Reeves tossed the suit out last year.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/us/mississippi-judge-flag-trnd

[ALGAYDO 35,103]

Good. The confederate flag has no purpose being waved in these modern times. 

Same way the Swastika has no purpose being used today since it no longer symbolizes what it used to, and is now representative of the Nazi party. 

[ANVEEROY 65,227]

Why this took so long? I mean after winning the war with West Pakistan ( we used to be East Pakistan), we removed all things related Pakistan.

[YeehawKylie 7,817]

Mississippi needs to change its flag period. The Confederate emblem has no reason being on any state flag of the United States. 

[REALITY 80,162]

Oh my God, I didn't know I was so ignorant because I never knew that Mississippi's flag had the confederate emblem on it

That's awful, they need to change it ASAP. There is literally no reason for it to still be up there. 

[Daredevil 2,133]

Deplorables™: libtards are offended by everything. these snowflakes need to grow up. sad

also Deplorables™: 

also Red Starbucks Cups are sooo offensive!!!

[Goosey 3,017]

9 hours ago, HOMODRAKE said:

Good. The confederate flag has no purpose being waved in these modern times. 

Same way the Swastika has no purpose being used today since it no longer symbolizes what it used to, and is now representative of the Nazi party. 

The swastika is not the same as the confederate flag. From most people's perspective the confederate flag has been just a harmless symbol for southerners or rednecks. You are going to tell me CBS put it on the Duke boys' car to show the characters are supposed to be racist? Of course not.

Also the swastika is just fine being used in Asia.

[ALGAYDO 35,103]

10 minutes ago, Goosey said:

The swastika is not the same as the confederate flag. From most people's perspective the confederate flag has been just a harmless symbol for southerners or rednecks. You are going to tell me CBS put it on the Duke boys' car to show the characters are supposed to be racist? Of course not.

Also the swastika is just fine being used in Asia.

Goose, you know damn well that most Americans associate the Confederate flag with racism 

No, I don't think CBS was alluding to them being racist. I think they made a harmless mistake by not thinking it throughly. 

And some Asian cultures don't associate the swastika with Nazis, but western cultures do. 

C'mon goosey goose. Wyd 

[Goosey 3,017]

7 minutes ago, HOMODRAKE said:

No, I don't think CBS was alluding to them being racist. I think they made a harmless mistake by not thinking it throughly. 

It was 1979, they added the flag because the general public did NOT consider it a racist symbol. Correct?

8 minutes ago, HOMODRAKE said:

And some Asian cultures don't associate the swastika with Nazis, but western cultures do. 

You did say it has 'no purpose being used today' which seemed dismissive of places where they do use it regularly.