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Mississippi is pretty easygoing most who's allowed to put discover commemorative license plates, but a proposal from the state's Sons of protagonist Veterans division could presently change that.

To honor the 150th anniversary of the Civil War --which the SCV calls the "War Between the States"-- the group wants to release a bag featuring protagonist generalized and primeval Klu Klux FTO leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.

While the SCV, which previously issued plates with confederate flags on them, says that Forrest was a expeditionary hero who distanced himself from the KKK toward the modify of his life, critics are still stunned.

"Seriously?" said land NAACP President Derrick Johnson upon quantity the news. "Wow."

But there is a quantity that the SCV module get its way. The authorised in calculate of handling license plates requests, Democratic Rep Willie Bailey, says that he's not anti to the idea, so daylong as the bag isn't offensive. "If they poverty a tag ceremonial veterans of the Confederacy," said Bailey, "I don't hit a difficulty with it."

Bailey is black.