JACKSON -- The Confederate battle emblem on the 122-year-old Mississippi flag is a "disgrace" and needs to be removed, a black lawmaker said Thursday at a rally outside the state Capitol.
Longtime Democratic Sen. David Jordan of Greenwood also said the banner is an embarrassment to more than 1 million African-Americans living in the state.
"Let's create a new image for all 3 million of us," Jordan said. "Because the bottom line, we ain't going nowhere. We've been down here 300 years together a
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