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911 went to the emergency man. okay. i just played the bush. please send somebody away with the manual charge manual they want and there's people shot shot the past. or the manager please come right away. did you see him at all? yes, he's a young to anyone. you know. why do me? when you come in, a shooter. 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 the white gun, then stormed into a bible study. 9 church members die right before god another. use the word church.

church. what do we know about who this man is and what his motivation may, and then you re followed women and you taken over the country. you have to go shortly after dylan roof was captured, investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted online with dozens of images, posing that confederate harry sites in with confederate flags. mm. mm. now the focus of the nation's outrage shifted from the killer himself to the symbol that seemed to contain more than its borders. all the racial hatred and roofs hart or the backlash was swift. terrific shooting has re ignited a highly sensitive debate over the confederate flag. this flag has become a symbol of murder of racism, hatred. 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 gut 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. in less, less to minutes, amazon just pull the flag as well from around. 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 states. capital would not be an act of political correctness, not in salts, of the balance. federal sold me would certainly be acknowledged

that the cause for which they fought. mm. the cause of slavery was 12 weeks later the flag came down and south carolina. oh, this is a flag again, a lot of attention is all because of this. the revel. banner rehab with your roommate, you know, i'm not going to you care about me. if you care about this for the story. interval 60, 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, there are government as sanctioning that shows and symbol of a terrorist organization on our state far. i love the 7 there. i love the southern bail. i think we had the most beautiful flag we need to fight. i. my problem is the safe place to

where they even want in not a timing issue. and what they're gonna do is they're trying to tell us because mississippians that we should change, we're not gonna change. you know, i get the liquor a standing in line with our welding. ah, i was born and raised in the north or my irish great great grandfather, michael o'connor was an officer of the union army. but i married a mississippian,

and of course we live here now in 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 and he was elected president of the confederacy. there's another jeff davis avenue short drive away in jefferson davis. his home and presidential library is just up the highway like many mississippi counties. our court house and the monument to confederate soldiers and some of our neighbors flew the stake 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 play more than usual. evidently, there must be a shortage on the horizon somewhere in it. a shame like great. okay, my name is tim cupid. i'm a member of the sons a confederate veteran. when i started doing my family research, i found that my family hold on both sides union and confederate, but if some people lane laugh, some people lane, right? well, i'll find out we won't people remember our past what our ancestors went through. and this drives that way. i appreciate you being here and i hope that when you're doing your documentary that

you present both 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. mister 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? me? ah, i me.

the sounds of confederate veterans purposes, not defend confederate, govern our purposes, to defend the good name of the confederate soldiers that you take, which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere or not can not monuments to the better government. there monuments to the, to the soldiers to the veterans. most of the came back terribly wanted, ah, supplied, did those men or masters of some sort. and that's not true. and i can't just sit there while that story gets told us. i know it's not true, of course for me. fascinated with mississippi history in particular because the

census and 1840 i think is the 1st one. everybody here was 20 years old. everybody. there were no 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 that's ah, that's how we got here was these people were determined to live with her only wish reward anus. any boredom for anything are 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 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 air dog does something. what 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 fibrous was brought in under the u. s. black, 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 u. s. y again. 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. so if you say you are fighting for your heritage where your heritage was based, own money empower in the only way you could get money. empower your new style is if you kill a decent franchise, people enslaved plain and simple always new. would 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 emblem? 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 it by human beings, except where such order to conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about personal intelligence at that point obviously is too great trust, 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, ah ah ah, the united states in many western countries, adding a title of the rationality and i basically call that what the u. s. is,

but you know, the u. s. position visa be sanctioned as a kind of mania. they keep repeating the same actions, and i think they're doing this because they want to show that they still do the work. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanctioned, they have imposed, has shown as the light how much they don't room. ah ah ah, ah, yes, this is hope lady. she is really

a series through position and you have to look beyond that. something's all just to read, but it's not just the way a flag was always present like it was just after when those people were 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 god will push them to put tre. christine, how do you change the heart of a man? you law may not change it. and it does change the habits of men. when you began to change that habit for men, they attitudes with the james curtis on the hops with the chain. my

mother, she will say, i'm rights for women. they host down with holes is. she still held the bite marks only from the doll. and she also went to jail and i would like to know this, my mama, why, why not? i mean, she's the sweetest person. oh no. why would somebody do that to her? it was a paulding. when the news came about the shooting. mamma said they don't make no thing as food went to jail and get b for human rights and civil rights and welfare. right. yeah, i better do something and when she say better do something, we do something. i'm the director of of lanfield mississippians coalition. i've just been going around trying to raise awareness

about the importance of removing the confederate emblem from our stay flay. it's gonna be hard, but it's 9 impasse. 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 j r. lead street to the state capital calling for change in 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 would 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 i'm 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. wow. mine 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 that. and then li, sitting in charleston happened 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 has 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 with me right now. in america. do you think it makes them feel when they everywhere lays her that flag is flying? what does that say? and then 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. i love 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 the 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. and this time voters will decide if the confederate symbol will phone the flag of 18. 941 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 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. 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 flag all over this jury and i got the lamps hanging out. so i was, i was put some flag. so i'm a true blooded southern mississippi,

southern maine and accept it. and i, i relish in it 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 i'm a direct descendant of james jefferson johnson is my great, great great grandfather and the 41st mississippi infantry. this is my sons, a concert 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 or what about discrimination against southerners. they accuse us of all being rices. you know, and it's a sign of a 1000000000 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, a got to the point that is today we're in time, i say that played out americans, things take it personally with what is referred to as a confederate flag. graphically it's done however, you can 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 whatsoever. we're adamant we're we can do this right and well and respectfully, fraud involved. i didn't like name calling, i don't want rallies where people are yelling back and forth all along the way from the way i present things. so 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 leaning point for folks who, you know, as time has 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, a flag really as a living symbol and document and piece of art that 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 an u. s. senate and i. he was one of the co authors and signers of the southern manifesto, which was a reaction against brown vs board of education. integrating schools. and he was involved in we are 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 western leads essentially promised to give a blank check to continue naples, proxy war against russia. businesses and consumers are now saying not so fast the west believe russia would quickly collapse under the weight of sanctions. instead, it is the west, particularly europe, facing alive with the united states in many western countries, setting a title of good rationality. and i basically called what the u. s. is, you know,

the u. s. position visa be sanctioned as a kind of mania. they keep repeating the same actions and i think they're doing this because they want to show that they still rule the world. but in fact, every, especially against russia, every sanction they have imposed has shown, has underlined how much they don't told me is the aggression. today i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions today. russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing. i think you chose a bill in your city, mostly mine or wish you were banding all imports of russian oil and gas, new g i g over

with literature. we're pretty good regarding joe, by imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang with strengthening ties, as washer becomes new delhi talk, oil supply, india foreign ministers that to visit most go to the my last were with the chief, the long must go to the americans to vote republican in tuesday's mid term elections as he calls the shed power in washington. south western countries, a pressure to use more electric car africans are the ones doing the heavy lifting to keep those vehicles running on people in the democratic republic of the congo state. then miners are being exploited by the develop.