A star in a prominent place on the state flag, denoting Arkansas' place in the Confederate States of America, doesn't need to be assigned a new meaning, a committee of lawmakers decided Wednesday.A bill that would have removed references to the Confederacy in the state statute explaining the meaning of the flag's elements -- and replace them with a commemoration of the state's American Indian tribes -- failed 8-5 in the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee. To correct that, the legislature in 1923 added a fourth blue star above the letter “R” in Arkansas and moved the single blue star to a position above the last “A”. I wonder how many Arkansans, or for that matter, state legislators even knew what those stars on the flag represent? WHAT A WASTE OF OUR TAX PAYER FUNDED GOVERNMENT,,these virtue-signalers, and race -baiters, are really worthless,,,these same grand-standers support baby murder, taxing the successful for being successful, and enabling thugs to run cops over at will, by ensuring they have plenty of welfare and snap to spend at walmart-to supplement the gift cards they purchased after they knocked a little old lady in the head and stole her purse or broke into our vehicles and stole our wallets or in other litany of thuggery THEY do,,,what in the sam hill would removing that star do to make reparations? Before long they had the answer: there was no state flag.The Pine Bluff group decided to correct the situation by holding a statewide flag contest. Among other provisions detailing the flag's features, such as its colors and shapes, there was a line that read, “The blue star above the word 'ARKANSAS' is to commemorate the Confederate States of America.” Instead of the handsome and dignified red flag centered with a diamond and stars, such flags could have flown over the twenty-fifth state if a 1913 committee had not acted with wisdom.The battleship U.S.S. Also they should know that while we appreciate their contribution to our feetball and basketball teams, this star is our culture of white arkies and it would be to their benefit to not rock the boat.I do support the Jack Ladyman idea of not putting any indian ideas as to the flag, not because they are not white, but because they fought against US and killed soldiers of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a most low down dirty heinous act to commit. in Pine Bluff; Miss Julia Warner, a teacher in the Little Rock school system, and Mrs. P. H. Ellsworth, a former president of the Arkansas Federation of Women’s Clubs.In the early days of 1913 the committee gathered in Mr. Hodges’ office and worked on choosing a flag. They described the bill as part of a slippery slope to removing other objects regarding the Confederacy across the state.Blake said the historical record sheds a different light on how the flag came to honor the Confederacy.Seated in front of a row of five men signed up to speak against his bill, Blake, who is black, noted that the Confederate star was added in 1924, a decade after the first version of the flag was adopted and nearly 60 years after the end of the Civil War. The other tribes that would be named are the Osage and the Caddo.As the committee adjourned and its members filed out of the room, another lawmaker who is on the panel, Rep. Jack Ladyman, R-Jonesboro, could be heard remarking about "Indians" to a colleague. Three blue stars in a straight line were centered in the diamond.Miss Hocker explained that the colors in her design meant that Arkansas was one of the United States of America. The star itself is not offensive; it’s meaning as currently defined (in support of slavery) is offensive. These hangers on are a pox on our great democracy right now as they can’t understand current issues and live in the past. Under this proposal, Blake wanted to repurpose two stars on the state flag. not one damn thing,,,,,the beautiful Southern Soldiers monuments that have been destroyed by Stalinists/islamists in this country is a true abomination --the Jackson And Lee Statue =replaced with a african woman holding a baby with her fist in the air--holy comoly--what a travesty ...any of you communist/nazi's have any clue who Jackson and Lee were??? The state's General Assembly reaffirmed the parameters of the flag in a 1987 act that Clinton signed. Write a new paragraph to the statute of what the flag represents and put this whole thing to rest. The Clintons even established a $100 fine for those violating the law: Clinton had a Confederate flag-like issue of his own. A new bill would have enshrined a star on the Arkansas flag as a symbol of the Native American tribes that occupied the land for centuries before Europeans arrived.