Posted on 01/07/2014 1:09:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) swears it's not just whistling "Dixie" when it comes a call for removal of the Mississippi state flag from the Plaza of the Flags outside the county courthouse in Santa Ana. The Newport Beach-based OCBA says a flag that "incorporates the Confederate Battle Flag in its design" has no place on the government property.
For those who have missed 153 years of American history, the Confederate battle cross has come to symbolize racism, segregation and--the greatest horror of all--Kid Rock concerts.
The OCBA passed the resolution calling on the City of Santa Ana to remove the flag in November, to help mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. (See the res on the next page.)
The flag's design "is inextricably linked to a legacy of racism, exclusion, oppression and violence in various ways," explains OCBA president Wayne Gross in a statement (that, just to be clear, somehow manages to avoid mentioning Kid Rock).
"If we are to remain true to President Lincoln's words that defined the Civil War as 'a new birth of freedom,' a flag design symbolizing racism and hatred has no place in or around courthouses," adds Gross, whose association recommends "an alternative state symbol of the State of Mississippi to support equal justice for all."
Maybe after this, the OCBA could go after the rest of Santa Ana's Confederate heritage, from the magnolia trees near the old Orange County Courthouse to the one planted in honor of the girl who saved the life of the founder of the KKK that stands outside the Bowers Museum.
Actually, the Mississippi flag could join all state flags in being removed from the plaza anyway. City and county officials are discussing a renovation that might include ditching the display.
How about something OCBA members would truly love, like a Plaza of Billable Hours?
How fluking tragic !
..southern man don't need him 'round anyhow..
So this is simply a poke in the eye and a gratuitous "FU" to Mississippians then. Got it!
It’s 1825 miles from Orange County to Jackson, Mississippi. They need to STHU & mind their own business.
Does anybody really care what the Fruits and Nuts pass?
Hey OC Bar -kiss my Grits! you are now 86 from the Bar.That flag you have banned is the Stars and Bars—IT was a flag served under by Sons of the South —and unless I am mistaken it was adopted as the Battle flag After y’all started the war of Northern Aggression. Talk about HATERs—them folks that rally under that California Rainbow Flag of the Queer Nation are a lot bigger HATERS than anybody who ever rallied under the Stars and Bars. Put that in your hash pipe and smoke it.
ocb can FOAD
The confederates did lose the war.
Just remove that image and replace it with the Gadsden image.
we can’t have a confederate flag ... but we are supposed to allow statues and monuments to satan?!
f*ck these people
I live in Mississippi and I could give a flying crap whether that commie state flies the MS flag. I fly it and that is all that matters.
They admit criminals into their Bar Association. Such hypocrites !
FU OCBA!!!
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