TX: No To Confederate Flag

From USA Today:
"Texas DMV rejects bid to allow Confederate flag on license plates"

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board today unanimously rejected a bid to allow the Confederate battle flag on vanity license plates, the Houston Chronicle reports. Gov. Rick Perry, who had appointed all nine members of the board, remained silent on the issue until two weeks ago when he came out against it, saying it's "just a part of history that you don't need to scrape that wound again." Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, argued that opponents viewed the flag as a symbol of slavery and hate. "This is the wrong thing to do," Bledsoe told the board, the Chronicle says. "We don't want others to look at Texas with scorn and ridicule and think that we are a bunch of country bumpkins.

^ This is a step in the right direction in making the Confederate flag as well as all Confederate symbols illegal in the US. The Confederacy and its symbols only praise racism, discrimination, violence and anti-American feelings (since the Confederacy left the United States.) ^

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