[000:00:00;00] me 911 went to the emergency police and somebody right away. the manual church, emmanuel, they went and there's people shot shot past. the police come right away. did you see him at all? yes, he's a young to anyone you know, why do me? and when you come in a moment, what happened at the mother emmanuel and the church in charleston,

south carolina in the summer of 2015 was almost to her rhetoric to comprehend a white gun. then stormed into a bible study. 9 church members die right before god another word church church. what do we know about who this man is? and what is motivation may have been you, rape our women, and you taken over our country, you have to go shortly after dylan roof was captured, investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted online, along with dozens of images, posing that confederate heritage sites in with confederate flags me now the focus of the nations outrage shifted from the killer himself to the symbol that seem to contain within its borders. all the racial hatred and roofs heart the

backlash was swift. terrific, shooting, had reared, and a highly sensitive debate over the confederate flag. this flag has become assembled, a murder of racism patron. and it is clearly a symbol of this chiller. the conversation we're having about the confederate flag has been about moral empathy, seeing the flag for others eyes. you know, it's a moment for society to really do a get check of our values. corporate giants like e bay target and wal mart stopped selling items bearing the confederate flag, telling me right now literally just now in the last couple of minutes. unless the 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 that all has 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 state. capital would not be an act of political correctness would not be insults of the malibu confederates sold me, sent me an acknowledgement that the cause for which they fought in the cause of slavery was then 2 weeks later the flag came down and south carolina. oh, it's a flag again, a lot of attention is all because of this. the revel. banner we're which are ours. to make, you know, i'm not gonna tell you care about me if you care about to play, you can. and this bridge, the story is simple. fix to do you think the confederate flag at the fed? 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 this has and symbol of

a terrorist organization on our state. i love being there, i love being a southern veil. i think we have the much for flag, we need to fight for my problem to me is the safe place to replace everyone in not a time in history. and what they're trying to do is they're trying to fill in mississippi and that we should change it. when i say, you know, i get the liquor. let me know if you're willing, i me

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 mississippi and, 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's another jeff davis avenue, a short drive away. and jefferson davis, his home and presidential library is just up the highway. like many mississippi counties, our court house had the monument to confederate soldiers and some of our neighbors

flew the state flag and their yards something i'd never seen any place else. so yes, 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 play more than usual. evidently, there must be a shortage on the horizon somewhere in it. a shame. okay, 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 hold on both sides union and confederate, but if some people lane last sunday, the lane ride will allen's out. we won't be able to remember our past what our

ancestors went through. and this rise 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 every one else i spoke to in 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 overstate flag, whose purpose should be to unite us.

ah, [000:00:00;00] a, this sounds a confederate veterans purposes not to defend confederate government or purposes to defend the good name of the confederate soldier. that's the out that you take, which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere are not, can, they're not monuments to the better government. they're monuments to the, to the alter, 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 me, it fascinated with mississippi history in particular, because the census and 1840, i think 1st one. 0 everybody here was 20 years old. everybody. there were no people anywhere, and they were coming to absolutely raleigh and anyone in 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 a for the toilet to live room

. oh, a not only which reward anus any. 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 the 17th in charleston, south carolina. they want you to believe that that flag grew. hans delays came down that po walked in that church and you know those people it was a human being that did that not apply open your mouth. open your mouth. oh, we keep them your mouth,

open it on, 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 to us flag. why not be offended because of that flag? you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything out. mm. if 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. and this is,

if you kill a decent franchise, people enslaved 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 to hatred, lynchings, beatings, poverty, why supremacy is just the disgusting ambulance? i feel that way because i leave it. ah, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings,

except where such short or conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point obviously is to place a truck rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence. real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with ah ah, 3 with center water is thrown in the old hon and the signal for the bottle stuck on this does not the last dance, but i feel as we flung from kaiser hours from the end to lower the do it in b, c, dufrane you could give to way in the politicians,

kills on the edge on the ball, asia the or was to live it. i'm done with this in a little bolcom in the crucial chest middle school was leaving us with the modem is not a good fit. he does do a lot of what you thought he was like. well, they used to work with up should we, can you video picks, that would be good to go with when you're going to see sure you missed that. even in middle south america, you can give us his net. but did he thought he is a battle? certainly don't see this material, but let's talk about even in the so play unit should update those. my tell me if you look me, it doesn't help with me. she go. she returned with a note up there. numerous my answer to it. almost all in one more shot, especially to renew with lisa there's up or anything it took you

with a with this whole issue is really a series a but it's not just the way it with lab was always present like it was just after when those people get shot.

we got a a phones of confederate batteries, and members of the k, k k. i say that they are christians and just it is my hope in mind is that

they're gonna push them to put tre. christine, how do you change the heart of a menu? well, the law may not change my house of men your chan on a dog's chamber habits of men. when you are begun, i have a 2 men who so who do j. phone off will be june. my mother, she file for welfare rights for women. they host her down with hoses. she still had the bite marks owner laid from the doll. and she also went to jail and i was like to know this, my mom a while while 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.

mamma say they don't make no if i stood up and went to jail and get beat for human rights and civil rights and welfare rights. yeah. better do something. and when she said, y'all better do something, we do something 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 flag. it's gonna be hard but is not impasse. you just have to keep pushing and keep striving. i just thank god for oh, ah grace and mercy. because you need a whole lot more than you would have been march from g r lynch street to the state

capital calling for change in the state flag. we just need a flag that were unified. everyone in, 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 would be some time before i could talk to sharon on camera again. she found an ally and li 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. i grew up in the

sound. so i have a sense of the racism that still exists here and it would be naive me or anyone else to deny the matter. then li, sitting in charleston happen. and i distinctly remember seeing the photo dylan roof posing with the confederate ard and reading his blog post. 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 of mississippi right now. with do you think it makes them feel

when they everywhere like her? that why is why, what are we on bad? miss day is better than that's why with with this wasn't the 1st time mississippians have wrestled over their flag in 1993, the n double a c p to the state, to change the flag for familiar reasons. back 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 must grove 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 in 1894 and a new design. and now the mississippi flag is wavering. and this time voters will decide if the confederates symbol will fall. the flag of 18941 by a 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. reconstruction was over, and white,

mississippi had regained political control from the majority black population to violence and intimidation. and 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 to 9 a citizen the right to vote based on race. let's tell the truth of at 1st the bottom of the university said we came here to exclude and other convention, delegates confirmed this notion in mississippi's constitution of 18. 90 included a poll tax and a literacy test that effectively prevented 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 the flag trade, the federal but the flags all over the street. you know, because i got the, the horizontal lambs hanging out. so i was like, wow, but since i am a true blooded, southern mississippi, southern man and, and an accepted and i are relish in it because that's who i am. that's who i, 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. he fought in the 41st mississippi infantry. this is my son's a confederate veteran certificate. what really got me just fired about route one

and some kind of a confederate organization is because of what's going on in the country. the maneesha. it's but people discrimination against the jews, levinsky ammunition against us, or warner. mom is currently engaged in southern they accuse us of all being rices, you know, and it's a fine of a 1000000000, is what the flag may. so 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, a got to the point that is today. we're tommy. why say that played out americans things k k p person? mm hm. what is referred to as a confederate flag? graphically, it is done 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 hesitancy whatsoever. we're at a moment where we can do this right and well and respectfully drawn bought. i don't like name coins. 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, annette new design. and i hope to be that middle ground, that landing point for folks who, you know, as time has passed and they've come along, i think in all right. now we need something new. it began with a whole lot of sketching, a lot of note taking a lot of research, a flag really as a living symbol and document and piece of art that they're 19 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 an u. s. senate and i. he was one of the co authors and signers at the seller manifesto, which was a reaction against brown vs board of education. integrating schools. and he was involved in now 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, [000:00:00;00] with with ah, ah, the united states in many western countries, adding

a title of irrationality. and i basically call that what the u. s. is in the u. s. position because of the sanctions is a kind of mania. keep repeating the same actions and actually doing this because they want to show that they still rule the world. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanctioned, they have imposed, has shown up the line how much they don't, a a,

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