Below is the text of the post: 
 
 “The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific. suggested leaders of the city “should be lynched” if they intend to “destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY.” 
 
 The full post was removed from Oliver’s Facebook page as of Monday afternoon. Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.” 
 
 As of May 20, New Orleans has removed four monuments that commemorated the Confederacy from public view, but the statutes have not been destroyed. “I don’t know what more I can do.” 
 
 Oliver deleted the Facebook post around 11 a.m. this morning and issued an apology statement to reporters. The statement reads: 
 
 “I, first and foremost, wish to extend this apology for any embarrassment I have caused to both my colleagues and fellow Mississippians. Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.” 
 
 Here is what Oliver said Monday: 
 
 I, first and foremost, wish to extend this apology for any embarrassment I have caused to both my colleagues and fellow Mississippians.In an effort to express my passion for preserving all historical monuments, I acknowledge the word “lynched” was wrong. I am very sorry,” Oliver’s emailed apology statement says. “It is in no way, ever, an appropriate term. I deeply regret that I chose this word, and I do not condone the actions I referenced, nor do I believe them in my heart. I freely admit my choice of words was horribly wrong, and I humbly ask your forgiveness.” 
 
 When asked if Gunn would consider similar consequences for the two lawmakers who liked the post, the speaker said he has had very little time to digest the predicament.   House Speaker Philip Gunn stripped Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, of his vice-chairmanship today after Oliver’s Facebook post Saturday, which said those supporting the removal of Confederate monuments in Louisiana “should be LYNCHED!” 
 
 “I called on him to immediately retract and apologize for that and also to inform him that his vice-chairmanship will be revoked,” Gunn said this afternoon at the Stennis Capitol Press Forum. “It does not reflect the values of the leadership in the House, and for that reason, he will no longer be a part of the leadership.” 
 
 Oliver is the vice-chairman of the House Forestry Committee. The Speaker also said he had called the chairwoman of the Legislative Black Caucus this morning regarding Oliver’s Facebook post, but did not share his comments to her. Phil Bryant, who faced his own firestorm last year after the Jackson Free Press revealed that he had quietly declared April "Confederate Heritage Month," issued a statement to the Associated Press saying Oliver's language is "unacceptable and has no place in civil discourse."
– A Mississippi state lawmaker is facing a firestorm after saying politicians who support the removal of Confederate monuments should be lynched. Four Confederate monuments were recently removed from New Orleans in an effort to "correct" history, the city's mayor tells Time. But Rep. Karl Oliver didn't see it that way. In a Saturday Facebook post, the Republican from Winona, Miss., wrote that "if the … 'leadership' of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED," per the Jackson Free Press. Appalled politicians, including the head of the Mississippi Republican Party and Gov. Phil Bryant, quickly spoke out, per WJTV, as did the NAACP. Oliver "not only called for the murder of public officials" but "in specifically calling for lynching, he also explicitly raised the ugly history of racial violence in America," said the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Oliver issued an apology Monday, noting, "I do not condone the actions I referenced, nor do I believe them in my heart. I freely admit my choice of words was horribly wrong, and I humbly ask your forgiveness." Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says Oliver will be removed as vice chairman of the House Forestry Committee regardless, per the Free Press. The paper adds the monuments removed from New Orleans aren't to be destroyed as Oliver suggested, but will likely appear in museums.