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on the menu check. please come right away. did you see him at all? yes, he's a young to anyone why do street? and when the police come out and then what happened at the mother of manuel and the church in charleston, south carolina. in the summer of 2015 was almost to her risk to comprehend the white gun and stormed into a bible study. 9 church members died right before god another decent board church church. what do we know about who this man is? and what is motivation may have been followed women and taken over the country. you have to go shortly after dylan rufus captured

investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted online, along with dozens of images, hosing that confederate heritage sites, and with confederate flags. now the focus of the nations outrage shifted from the killer themselves to the symbol that seem to contain within its borders. all the racial hatred and roofs heart the backlash was swift. terrific, shooting has re ignited the highly sensitive debate over the confederate flag. this flag is a symbol of murder, of racism, hatred, and it is clearly a symbol of this killer. the conversation we're having about the confederate flag. it's been about moral empathy, seeing the flag through others eyes. you know, at the moment for society to really do a good check of our values, corporate giants like ebay target and wal mart, stop selling the items bearing the confederate flag, telling you right now literally just now in the last couple of minutes in less, less 2 minutes amazon just pulled the flag as well. even nascar,

an icon of traditional southern culture, turned against the flag with an appeal to patriotism. special offer for race fans this week and you can train in your confederate flag for an american. one. anti flag momentum reached a climax when president obama delivered the eulogy from other emanuel pastor clement of painting. removing the flag from the space capital would not be an act of political correctness. it would not be an insult to the malware. the confederates on the same way, maine and acknowledged the clause for which they fall of slavery. 2 weeks later, the flag came down and south carolina say for i get, getting a lot of attention. as all because of this, the rebel banner can make people. i'm not the listing. if you care about me,

you care about the play. and this for all 16. do you think the confederate flag is offensive? as you can see, it's about even with somebody. just tell me why this sense they're here. our government is sanctioning the chosen symbol of a terrorist organization. on our state far. i love the 7 the i love the southern bell. i think we have the most beautiful flags we need to fight for my problem is the safe place to replace everyone in not a time in east. and what they're trying to do is they're trying to sell us as mississippians that we should change. you don't want the

i was born and raised in the north by iris. great, great grandfather, michael o'connor was an officer in the union army. but i married in mississippi and, and of course we live here. now, the main street in the neighboring town is not called main street. it's jeff davis avenue, named after jefferson davis, a mississippi plantation owner, and us senator, who advocated for the expansion of slavery into the new territory. he was elected president of the confederacy. there's another jeff davis avenue short drive away

and jefferson davis, his home in presidential library, is just up the highway like many mississippi county court house as a monument to confederate soldiers. and some of our neighbors splitting the states flag in their yards. something that never seen any place else. so yes, in mississippi. remnants of the confederacy are everywhere. but even at the civil war relics, joe and brandon, mississippi change seems inevitable to tell me what sort of interactions are you having with folks who are interested in buying mississippi states. people are buying mississippi state flag more than usual. evidently there must be a shortage on arriving somewhere in it. a shame.

my name is tim cupid. i'm a member of the sons of confederate veterans. when i started doing my family research, i found that my family photo on both sides union and confederate, but if some people lane left, something bull lane, right? well, a lane's file. we want people to remember our past, what our ancestors went through. and this prize that we made the, i appreciate you being here and i hope that when you're doing your documentary that you present both sides positive manner and, and let people make their mind for themselves. i understood that considered a heritage supporters like tim might be suspicious of my intentions. i am a yankee after all. i assured him and everyone else i spoke to him,

the film that i wasn't going to choose aside. mister bate. and i wasn't here to judge anyone. i simply wanted to understand why mississippians were so divided over state flags whose purpose should be to unite us. mm. the sons of confederate veterans purposes not to defend confederate govern our purposes, to defend the name of the confederates. so that's the out that you take,

which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere are not can, but they're not monuments to the federal government. they're monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the veterans. most of it came back terribly wanted the ship side that those masters of some sort and that's not true. and so i can't just sit there while that story gets told this. i know it's not true. of course, for me, i'm fascinated with mississippi history of the different because the census in 1840 i think is the 1st one. so everybody here was 20 years old. everybody to know people anywhere. and they were coming to absolutely raleigh and. and then within 20 years of that, you're fighting for your existence as a nation. the,

you know, that's the, the, the, that's how we got here was these people were determined to lay of the, or the same dna. so not do not, not only which one anus any part in for any it say not done. look, this state flag, she never would have been brought back up. if it wasn't for what happened on june the 17. in charleston, south carolina. they want you to believe that that flag grew hands and legs came down. that pole walked in that church and field, those people it was a human being that did that not apply

the open your mouth open your mouth. 7 we keep them your mouth open, it does something with a concussion. every flag has its history. it has its broad and dark parks. we won't talk about dark parts, you know, we can mention how slavery was brought in under the us flag. there's videos of this one organization marching down. i believe it's pennsylvania avenue in washington dc . and they're only flying us flag. so, why not be offended because of that's like, you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. the

dates you say you are fighting for your heritage where your heritage was based on money and power in the only way you can get money and power here. new style is a, if you kill a disenfranchised people, it's like mine is always knew what the confederate emblem meant to us as african americans. but what can you tell me? what are always best to you? patriot lynchings. beatings already. why supremacy is just the disgusting ambulance. i feel that way because i lived in

the we're told us president joe biden does not want to stand off with russia over you, craig, to trigger a global war. the evidence suggest just the opposite. nato now uses you praying to attack russia, have no doubts. russia will respond it's almost uh, almost a cliche in the west, but this whole idea of with my, to the last you brain in some truth behind it. i mean, think about it for the american, a $60000000000.00 for the reason. a package, not a lot of money. a lot of money stays within the united states in terms of the defense contract as an a light and pulled off money that, you know, they buy time, they prolong the war, but keep russia busy. you know, this is the, ultimately, this, what the west is doing is on a file, you know,

try for the west to take him and a, a russian state. never as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best. most all sun set up the, in the 6595 has to be the one else calls question about this, even though we will ben in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state on the rushes to day and split the ortiz full neck even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the tv service was for the question, did you say they requested

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the thing about the mississippi mississippi. the lot of phones of consider with veterans and members of the k k k. i say that they are christians. i just, it is my hope in my desire that god would push them us to put tre. christine, how do you change the heart of a man?

no, may not change. so it can, it does change my habits of man. when you begin to change the habits of men for this purpose, the hops will be changed. my mother, she file for welfare wise for women. they whole sit down with hoses. she still has the bite marks only from the dog. and she also went to jail and i was like to know this, my mamma. why, why? i mean, she's the sweetest person. oh no one was somebody to do that to her it was a power when the news came on about the shooting. mama said that don't make no sense if i stood up and went to jail and gab, being for human rights and civil rights. some way of feeling. right?

yeah. i'll be able to do something and when she said, go better do something we do something or the director of a flat file mississippians full elation. i've just been going around trying to raise awareness about the importance of removing the confederate emblem from our state. flags is going to be hard, but it's not impossible. you just have to keep pushing. it keeps drive and i just thank god for the grace and mercy because you need a whole lot of people march from g r lynch street to the state capital calling for change and the state slide, we just need a flag that were unified. everyone,

the not long after i met sharon's, she stepped away from her leadership role with the flag for all mississippians initiative to the health reasons. it would be some time before i could talk to sharon on camera again. she found her the ally and lia campbell, an anti flag activist on the mississippi gulf coast. for me as a white woman, i, it's incumbent upon me as a, as a white, mississippi and a person of privilege. to use my privilege to do what i can to dismantle a system of white supremacy and symbols of white supremacy that my ancestors created. the i grew up in the south. so i have a sense of the racism that still exist here. and um,

it would be an i me or anyone else to deny that it says family suiting in. charleston happened, and i distinctly remember saying the best photo doing raised closing with the confederate bar and reading his blog post. and then watch governor nikki haley. have the courage to take that confederate envelope down from south carolina state house ground. it really made me angry that our governor and our legislators could not just by the same courage. so i knew i had to get involved were fighting the do you feel when they everywhere like her that why is

like what we are better than that. mrs. city is better than the this wasn't the 1st time mississippians have wrestled over their flag in 1993, the young, double a c p. c with the state to change the flag for familiar reasons. that lawsuit level discovery that due to a legislative air in 19 o, 6, mississippi did not have an official state flag in 2001 governor. ronnie must

grow decided to settle the issue with a statewide referendum, asking voters to choose between 2 flags. the current flag at the time which had been adopted and $1894.00 and a new design. now the mississippi slag is wavering at this time, voters will decide if the confederates symbol will fall. the flag of 18941 by nearly 2 to one margin, settling the issue for the time being the flag of 18. 94 was adopted just 4 years after mississippi and continued to constitutional convention to write a new state constitution. the civil war had ended 30 years earlier, and although black mississippians made up nearly 60 percent of the states population, only one of the convention delegates was black. reconstruction was over, and white mississippians had to re games, political controls,

and the majority black population, through violence and intimidation, and a newly formed ku klux klan. the president of the convention made it clear that their goal was to circumvent the 15th amendment, which prohibited the government from denied a citizen the right to vote based on race. let's tell the truth of it 1st. the bottom of the university said we came here to exclude the other convention. delegates confirmed this notion the mississippi's constitution of 18. 90 included a poll tax and a literacy test that effectively prevented generations of black citizens from folding until the passage of the voting rights act. some 75 years later it was in this political climate that the flag of 1894 was born.

the college of a flag trade fire on the flags all over the street in a as i got the horizontal limbs hanging out. so i was like, well, i'll put some flags out, so i'm a true blooded, southern mississippi, mississippi, southern maine. right. and, and, and i accepted and i are relishing that because that's who i am. that's who, who i, where are my family is coming from. my family has lived in the state of mississippi before it even became the state of the i am a direct descendant of james jefferson. johnson is my great, great great grandfather. he fought in the 41st mississippi infantry, and this is my son's, a confederate veteran certificate. what really got me this part of a route joining some kind of

a confederate organization is because of what's going on in the country and discrimination against black people, discrimination against the jews within scrutinizing or against us. i like, well i, what about is currently engaged in southern they accuse us of all being races, you know, and it's a sign of or 1000000 is what the play me. so a lot of people and that's why i like k k and other groups used to play the part that me off the worst is ours, my ancestors would have put a stop to it before you know, a got to the point that is today, where anytime i say that by that automatically seems take a type of person, the what is referred to as a confederate flag. graphically, it is started however, you can separate it from all that it is stood for and a negative sense. i'd love for us to have

a symbol about which people just had no evidence whatsoever. we're at the moment we're we can do this right and well and respectfully for all involved. i don't like name collins. i don't like rallies where people are yelling back and forth all along the way from the way i present things. the way i design a flag. i want everybody to have a stitch, a thread, and that new design. and i hope to be that middle ground, that landing point for folks who, you know, as time has passed and they come along, i think. and all right, now we need something that it began with a whole lot of sketching, a lot of know, taking a lot of research aside really as a living symbol and document and piece of art. but there might teen star, as along the outer edge, we were the 20th state to join the union color. red symbolizes passion, and blood shows the color white as a field because it, it represents the elimination spirituality promise. and i thought that was an appropriate way to bring together all of these elements and all of these aspects of

our history and our story, of course, my grandfather was the us senate and he was one of the co offers and signers of the southern manifesto which was a reaction against the brown vs board of education, integrated schools. and he was involved in um, we have the impression of african americans in our state by way of policy. but i still love my grandfather. his personal motto was look ahead and he did, he eventually changed himself to on that issue. lauren's flag design known as this dennis flag quickly became popular and caught the attention of state representative kathy sikes, who was the 1st legislator to advocate for the spanish flag as a viable alternative to the flag of 18. 94. the

executive. and i'm here to plan with you whatever you do. do not watch my new show . seriously. why watch something that's so different. whitelisted opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do you have the state department c i a weapons, bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. change and whatever you do. don't marshall state main street because i'm probably going to make you, i'm comfortable. my show is called direction, but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the wayne state the

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