is where is the only good india is that dead indians, the genocide of native americans of north america lead to a demographic catastrophe. the exact number of deaths is still unknown, but the number of victims is in millions. having been the majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population. today. i'm a representative sykes of the rally in washington, d. c. t introduced his dentist while i do. a gallery of mississippians who had travelled there to demand a new state flag of them by lawrence as i love this. and the thing is, you know, we had a discussion about that. i saw this flag and fell in love with this. and i really liked it when i found out that the design of the lord is spanish. lawrence is the

grand. busy of senator john stated, he represented during the time of jim crow where they thought that separate but equal was okay. is just so important to me to accept that overtime and through the generations of people change. i'm a hip hop already. are you still pops when light in and inspires us? i respect honoring your ancestors ion or mine. and that's kind of, i feel where the class happens because no one's gonna back down from that. but i need you to acknowledge the brutality that was carried out under that banner. and once you can do that, then hopefully a dialogue can begin. and we can come to some sort of agreement because i'd rather have you as my neighbor then my enemy. we told the plan that the klein balls and the top

part is a number of more to say the the, [000:00:00;00] the, it's pretty flag that's about the extent of it. it does not replace what we have. i understand, you know, the 20 stars or the significance and what the meaning of that supposed to be, but nothing about it. honors confederate,

veterans of the soldiers. nothing. the cemetery that we're going to can i say cemetery. it's not much of a cemetery is just a few grades. but to me this is what our state flag is about. this is why our flagship or my in the side the this was originally just a small family cemetery. bell railroad tracks are in the same place. those are and they ran from meridian to jackson, around the vicksburg. soldiers died on the train right up here. they didn't even know the names of

a soldiers. these are some of the files and who fall in dod and their families never heard from them again to know where they were buried. what happened to them this one right here. it says a 6 brave soldier. slate here. so that's kind of feel about it. they were brave, they were honorable, they didn't fight to preserve slavery like fault because their home is invited because their, their stake, ask them to and it was honorable thing that the, the, or the

how can you say that when, when that cause that you say that they fall, so nobody 4 was girded up by slavery. and then you know, the whole reason for mississippi getting into the civil war, they say very plainly, it's about preserving slavery. this stuff that it goes back almost to i found it in the structure that the belief that america is to white list and anybody else in the country has to bad down to the white. so it's about white supremacy. it's about power and control. it's about maintaining the status quo and any kind of change occurs in this country where it is progress made towards diversity is responded to as it is

a threat to the white. if we're going to change this flag, then some brave white man. i'm going to have to stand and step up and it's got to happen to use legislation. the last legislative session. there were 19 bills related to the flag the session there 22. all of those bills related to change or means by which we could change the flag has been introduced by african american legislators. the bills for in support of the current state fired have all been introduced by white male conservative legislators in 2001 or the people of mississippi voted on a flag. and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the current flag. well, i don't think we as elected representatives, have the right to overturn their decision. now, whether you like it or not,

we can argue about that. but the decision was made by the people of mississippi to keep the current flag. so do you have a personal feeling about the flag? i personally believe that we should keep the flag. i think that the narrative that any little maurine being there that harkens back to the civil war is somehow racist or in support of slavery is just wrong. what we have to do is spend the time to educate every one of or what the real history it the, the belief that the flag issue will be settled when we all understand the real history of the civil war is attractive. but which part of the history confederate

inherited supporters argue that the civil war was not fought to free the slaves? because abraham lincoln himself subs. so in his original inaugural address, he said, if i could preserve the genius for free and all the slaves, i do that i can preserve the union. but for some slight sense, if i can preserve the use of a phrase, those keywords preserve, invo lincoln was morally opposed to slavery. he held common racist police. and then there's the court when amendment amendment was proposed to actually legalize. and i tried to propose it to the southern people to get them to, to join, get back in the union. but they did not. i didn't, they didn't want to have any part of it. all had, have been a mile with slavery in the core and amendment would have fixed that because it stated that the south to perpetuate keep this peculiar institution which referred

to slavery if they would not succeed from here. and at the core one amendment passed both houses of congress and 18. 61 lincoln in his 1st and all girl address said he would not interfere with it. had the car when amendment been adopted before the civil war began, it would have provided a constitutional protection for slavery in the united states. and it would have been the 13th amendment, the mississippi made it clear that they seceded to protect slavery, in part because they believe that black people were better suited to work in the oppressive heat requirement for picking cotton. and some white mississippians feared that emancipation wouldn't just mean economic ruin. it would lead to something they fear, even more racial equality. this was made clear when a commissioner named william l. harris was sent to georgia to persuade them to join mississippi in seceding from the union. and form

a southern confederacy of slaveholding states and an address to the georgia general assembly. he said, our fathers made this a government for the white man, projecting and west, ignoring inferior barbarian race, incapable of self government. he considered his speech, saying, mississippi would rather see the last of her race, men, women, and children, stimulated and one common funeral pyre, can see them subjugated to the tech rotation of civil, political and social equality within a race. georgia joined the confederacy. 3 months later with our previous president, there was nothing but a big hey. and it seemed like there was more of a, a war of a rice for more space on the was really what it was. this isn't a racial thing, not by any means. and we don't say for anything racial at all, we were out here were standing for southern price,

the wife news i believe with his prize very well. don't believe that we're going to bill me to tom it set out and everybody finally get this risk because this flag don't stand for racism is just our heritage. we sit down and a tie, one hash else, but it comes to an understanding that this is the way that we feel, regardless how you feel, you know what the way you feels while you fear we can't change that. we're not asking you to change that. we're asking you to come to of a place in your life where you can accept what we do as we say of what you do, what the odds of that happening are swimming on. uh, honestly believe it freedoms that style to allow us. i believe people will relax a little more and that's all right. she says religions,

the united states flag and flag of 18. $94.00 is a symbol of the mississippi that adopted the constitution of $1890.00 mississippi's governor. at that time, james parliament unabashedly stated mississippi's constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate her from politics. let the world know it just as it is. governor of argument also said, if it is necessary, if every oh in the state will be list and it will be done to maintain white supremacy. sometimes your people say, oh is it is such a bad place? quite frankly, things like that. that's fine. we can stay wherever they are and what is if i

didn't want. ready if you don't find a place where you can raise the state and then say if you don't like it, you can go somewhere. you been here for more than a century in the flag is still what it is to me. no, i wanna take the flag away and you can wait on the body on your truck, on your car. the gives you what we're talking about these days. flag that represents mississippi. and then what was it all over? the boys,

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b b y b y the i met re stores once before and he said something to me in that conversation, i'd heard from other confederate heritage, some orders. the rate was the only one who set it on camera. you'd said that slavery was, it was a natural condition. well know exactly what i said, the man. but i remember the energy, the relationship between the slave and the master wasn't accepted thing and a, it was there was a love between i wanna make sure i understand what you're saying here is that, that,

that the natural range and you're saying that in united states in mississippi, that it was a natural fit, slavery was natural and that the, into the relationship could be a natural thing, could be yes, it could be now that could be people who felt like it was on that talk the slaves, some of them perhaps. so you think would you not them? yeah, i don't think of majority frames for okay with the position. yes. i just accepted it as a as their station in law. do you see a situation where blacks could be masters to wines? would that be that? would that be no problem? yeah, i think in some cases, you know, i had a, a, a supervisor when i worked at a department store at one time that was blind and lots of orders from him and did what he told me to do. and what you had your freedom, do you have your liberty?

could you imagine a situation where you were the slave of a black master? well then let me just say that that's not something that i can just fully comprehend. and imagine right here here and your questions that i'd be happy to think about. okay. yeah, i'm just curious. i'm one of those new ways young you sent me to you might be noticed how much i love america. you made a comment so much that i got my education, and now i was afraid of that was someone who isn't afraid of someone who's gonna come to wherever, how's the bread? and we're gonna make sure that we get that way. we can make the turn the biggest the said no, we're here because the visa

by the spring of 2017 cities and counties throughout the state, had renewed state flags from government buildings as well as all a public universities the and the rallies and public meetings are becoming more confrontational, the brands are the same as the one major to take to the phone is to take it to the folks of the people in mississippi. the know this is our home. these are our symbols,

plus appears to be assigned, but it's also taken, they can do the of the nearby new orleans, the city with a 60 percent black population. the court to just approve the city council's plan to remove 4 prominent confederate statutes from public property, including the monument to jefferson davis, president of the confederacy for confederate heritage, supporters like george. their fears were coming true. confederate monuments were now under attack. their argument is this,

the statue using the symbols of the southern people are racist and from o y supremacy that is, there are you, we got this guy walk around with the communist flag here. and he's going around just talking smack, just walking up people and just calling us white supremacist and racist and everything like that. but we're all willing to protect ourselves. if we feel threatened, we will use our weapons. yes or would you if i felt threatened in my life a certain your name right. i would really and you really to be shot now and this is a cause i'm willing to give my life more comfortable for years and years. any time i walk around with my state flag, this is the flag a mistake, and i get very sick and tired of being called

a racist. and i'm big it because because i'm proud of where i'm from and it's came to a point where now i'm targeting and we've given we've compromised. we've lost a lot that we're not gonna lose anymore. when you're on the right side of history, it's always worth fighting for you don't know about reality that you realize just because you have to be the most president i've ever heard of my life. you don't know any of these people in your color,

all why supremacy is not here prejudiced on the back up in the shower. they're looking for trouble. so they can get us basically kicked out of here, arrested. rake our spirit. but we're not gonna file for you guys, please get them over there and separate them before hits the fan, if you would, we would greatly appreciate. can i not go over on the other side of the street? there's grass over there. they're gonna have a cook out over there, but they're over here trying to instigate us. you see this is rolling the window up on me face rolling the window. you see that we just rolled the window up on me all and rolled the window. i want more center, even your badge number, sir. what's your name? your badge number, what's your name and your badge number. may i get your name and your advisor will not susan,

as your green. i'm an advisor. you're supposed to give it your public service. you say they roll the window, they roll the window, they don't care. there was in trouble. there is a fan on the or the

way know the history. you read the article, maintaining flavor, right?

the news in response to the violence at the jefferson davis monument, a group of self identifying white supremacists and neo nazis gathered at least circle in new orleans organization. the

day was there to protest the plans removal of a statue of confederate general robert on this day it was impossible to separate confederates from races. the 4 days later, the jefferson davis stature was taken down and robert e. lee was removed from us at us till at least circle the

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