Debate Quote by Jemele Hill

The people of Mississippi overwhelmingly voted to keep our flag in 2001. I oppose unilateral action by the governor or the Legislature or any…

— Tate Reeves

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a]…

— George Elliott Clarke

Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state.

— Joan Laporta

If Mississippians ever decide we should change our flag, and at some point they might, it should only be done by a vote of…

— Tate Reeves

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

— George Elliott Clarke

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

— Jason Whitlock

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

— Chad Harbach

“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in its race…

— Richard Grant

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

— Woodrow Wilson

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under…

— George Will

There is dirty politics in sports federations.

— Milkha Singh

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with…

— Jackie Robinson