Coast County To Keep Flag Flying

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – Jackson County supervisors have voted to keep flying the state flag on county property and at county buildings.

Monday’s vote was 4-1.

In a resolution, they referred to a previous statewide vote 2001 to keep the flag and said that until the state addresses the issue, the county will continue to fly the flag.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1ntlzs9) Board President Melton Harris, who is black, strongly opposed the vote. The others, who are white, Barry Cumbest, Troy Ross, Ken Taylor and Randy Bosarge voted for it.

Curley Clark with the NAACP said he was disappointed in the county’s missed opportunity to lead in the movement to take down the flag and pointed out that today’s vote along racial lines shows how divisive the flag is.

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