really do again, check up our values. corporate giants like e bay target and wal mart stopped selling the items bearing the confederate flag, telling me right now literally just now in the last couple of minutes. unless last few minutes amazon just pull the flag as well. no, even nascar an icon of traditional southern culture turned against the flag with an appeal to patriotism. they told us got a special offer for race fans as we can trade in your confederate flag for an american lot. anti flag momentum reached a climax when president obama delivered the eulogy for mother emanuel pastor clemente pinkney moving the flag from the states. capital would not be an act of political correctness, not in salt to the balance of confederate sold me. sent me an acknowledgement that the cause for which they fought the cause of slavery was then 2 weeks later the flag came down in south

carolina. oh yes, it's a flag gain. a lot of attention is all because of this. the revel. banner rehab with your mate, you know, i'm not gonna hear you care about me if you care about to play it. and this brings us or is supposed to stay. do you think the confederate flag of the, as you can see, it's about even i wish somebody could just tell me why this sets their hair off. our government is sanctioning the chosen symbol. i have a terrorist organization on our state farm. i love the seminar, i love the in southern veil. i think we had them here for flag. we need to fight. i. my problem is the safe place to where they even want in not a timing. what they're trying to do is they're trying to fill because

mississippians that we should change it when you don't like it delivered there before the i was born and raised in the north in my irish great great grandfather, michael o'connor was an officer in the union army but i married a mississippian, and of course we live here now. the main street, 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. ah, there is another jeff davis avenue, a short drive away. and jefferson davis is home, and presidential library is just up the highway like many mississippi counties, our court house at the monument to confederate soldiers. and some of our neighbors flew the state flag in their yards. something i'd 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 seem inevitable. tell me what sort of interactions are you having with folks who are interested in buying mississippi shaped people are buying mississippi state more than usual. evidently, there must be

a shortage on the horizon somewhere in it ashamed. okay, my name is tim cupid. i'm a member of the funds a confederate better. when i started doing my family research, i found that my family called on both sides union and confederate. but if some people lane last sunday, the lane right, well, i lanes out. we want people to remember our past what our ancestors went through, and this drives that we made. ah, i appreciate you being here. and now i hope that when you're doing your documentary, that you are present both sides on positive manner and, and let people make amanda for themselves. i understood that confederate 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 the film that i wasn't going to choose aside. mr. bate. and i wasn't here to judge anyone. i simply wanted to understand why mississippians were so divided over state flag. whose purpose should be to unite us. ah, [000:00:00;00]

a sons of confederate veterans purposes not to defend confederate government or purposes to defend the good name of the confederate. seldom with the tech, which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere are not can, they're not monuments to the federal government. they're monuments to the, to the soldier, to the veteran. most of the came back terribly wanted ah, ah, you supplied that those men were masters of some sort and that is not true. and so i can't just sit there while that story gets told that i know it's not true. of course for made it fascinated with mississippi history in particular, because the census in 1840. i think 1st one. 0 everybody

here was 20 years old. everybody. torno people anywhere, and they were coming to absolutely raleigh and anyone there 20 years that you're fighting for your existence as a nation. ah, you know, that's a, that's how we got here was these people were determined to live rebel over the sanction. do not be a bad again, are not only which reward a in a study, pardon for anything not done. look, this state flag issue never would have been brought back up. if it wasn't for what

happened. on june 17th in charleston, south carolina. they want you to believe that that flag grew handlers came down that paul walked in that church and you know, those people it was a human being that did that not a flat open your mouth. open your mouth. oh, we keep them your mouth open, it does something with the concussion. every flag has its history. it has its pride and dark parts. we won't talk about dark parts, you know, we can mention how slavery was brought in under the u. s. flag. there's videos of this one organization marching down. i believe it's pennsylvania avenue in

washington, d. c. and they're only flying the us flag. 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. oh, well if you say you are fighting for your heritage where your heritage was based on money and power in the only way you could get money in power here in the south is if you kill a decent franchise, people in slaves plain and simple always knew what the confederate emblem made to us as an african americans. but what can you tell me what it always meant? catering?

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read. but it's not just the way it represents. inequality represents hatred and a flag was always present like it was in south carolina when those people were innocently shock with, well, you have b o b, we have all the

a whole lot. oh, sons of confederate veterans and members of the k k. k. i say that they are christian, i just, it is my hope in mind is that god would push them to portray christine, how do you change the heart of a man? you la la la may not change my house of men in a dutch chamber habits of men. when you are begun, returned by happened to men who it is only added, who did jane. for this phone off will be june. my mother, she awful welfare rights for women. they holstered down with hoses. she still held

the bite marks owner laid from the doll. and she also went to jail and i was blind to notice my mamma. why? why not? i mean, she's the sweetest person. oh no one was somebody to do that to her. it was appalling . when the news came on about the shooting. mama say that they don't make no sense . if i stood up and went to jail and get beat for human rights and civil rights and welfare rights. ya better do something. and wish you fe gal better do something we did something. ah, i'm the director of of lanfield miss tippins coalition. i've just been going around trying to raise awareness about the importance of removing the confederate emblem from our state flay. it's gonna be hard,

but it's not in past. you just have to keep pushing and keep striving. i just thank god for grace and mercy. because you need a whole lot more than 200 people march from g r lead street to the state capital calling for change and the state flag, we just need a flag that will unify everyone. not long after i met sharon, she stepped away from her leadership role with the flag for all mississippians initiative. due to health reasons, it will be some time before i could talk to sharon on camera again. she found an ally and lee a campbell, an anti flag activist on the mississippi gulf coast for me as a white woman. oh, it's incumbent upon me as a, as

a white mississippian 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. mm hm. wow. i grew up in the sound, so i didn't have a sense of the racism that still exists here and it would be naive me or anyone else to deny that. and then li, shooting and charleston happen. and i distinctly remember seeing the photo, dylan res, posing with the confederate fire and reading his blog posts. and then watch governor nikki haley, have the courage to take that confederate emblem down from south carolina state

house ground. it really made me angry that our governor and our legislators could not display the same courage. oh, so i knew i had to get involved. were fighting for the soul. right now. in america. do you think it makes them feel when they everywhere laid her? that flag is flying. what does that say to them? we are better than that. mississippi is better than that. no. mm

ah. this wasn't the 1st time mississippians have wrestled over their flag in 1993, the hon. ac piece to the state to change the flag for familiar reasons. with that lawsuit whether the discovery that due to a legislative air in 19 o 6, mississippi did not have an official state flag in 2001 governor ronnie musgrove decided to settle the issue with statewide referendum, asking voter to choose between 2 flags. the current flag at the time which had been adopted, $1894.00 and a new design. and now the mississippi flag is wavering at this time. voters will decide if the confederate symbol will follow the flag of 18. 941 by nearly 2 to one margin, settling the issue for the time being a

flag of 18. 94 was adopted just 4 years after mississippi had convened a 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 and reconstruction was over. and white, mississippi had regained political control from the majority black population to 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 the 9 us citizen, the right to vote based on race. and let's tell the truth of at 1st the bottom of the university said we came here to exclude them. in other convention, delegates confirmed this notion.

mm. mississippi's constitution of 18. 90 included a poll tax and a literacy test that effectively preventive generations of black citizens from voting 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. ah, back all this by flag trade, the federal put the flags all over this jury, and i got the horizontal lamps hanging out. so i was, i was put some flag. so i'm a true blooded, southern mississippi, southern maine and, and accepted. and i are relishing because that's who i am. that's who, where my family is,

came from my family as live in the state of mississippi before it even became a state of the union. i am a direct descendant of james jefferson. johnson is my great, great great grandfather and 41st mississippi infantry. this is my son's a confirmed veteran certificate. what really got me just fired about well known and some kind of confederate organization is because of what's going on in the country discrimination against black people, discrimination against the jews with discrimination against a southern they accuse us of all be in races, you know, and it's a sign of a 1000000 is what the flag means to a lot of people and that's why like k and other groups used to play the part that me off the worst is i wish my ancestors would have put

a stop to it before you know, got to the point that is today, we're any time i say that right now to make the things take a tape person with what is referred to as a confederate flag. graphically, it's funny, however, you can't separate it from all that it is still for a negative sense. i'd love for us to have a symbol about which people had no evidence, whatever were adamant we're we can do this right and well and respectfully draw involved. i don't like name callings, i don't want rallies where people are yelling back and forth all along the way from the way i present things the way our 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 is passed and they come along,

i think. and right now we need something new. it began with a whole lot of sketching, a lot of note taking a lot of research, aflac really as a living symbol and document and piece of art. there $900.00 stars along the outer edge. we were the 20th state to join the union, the color red symbolizes passion and blood. i chose the color white as a field because it represents 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 a us senate and i, he was one of the co authors and signers at the southern manifesto, which was a reaction against brown vs board of education. integrating schools. and he was involved in we had the oppression 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 the stennis flag quickly became popular and caught the attention of state representative kathy sikes. who was the 1st legislator to advocate for the stanish flag as a viable alternative to the flag of 18. 94 ah nelson as a well yeah. wow. div easy, while furnace us. ah. yeah. do you like yet if south. yeah. thrashing south with

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