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a one with the added to the emergency aid it man no judge b bush bad the police and somebody right away. the manual manual there'd be one of them, and there's people shot, shot to pass it on the amended reject, but he's got right away. did you see him at all? yes, he's a young to why the a white dude. mm. a multiple me down. what happened at the mother of manual and the church in charleston, south carolina, in the summer of 2015, was almost to her rhythm to comprehend a white gun been stormed into a bible study. 9 church members die right before god another. these people were in

church, they were in church. what do we know about? oh, this man is, and what is motivation may have been said, are you rape our women and you take it over our country and you have to go shortly after dylan rufe was captured, investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted on line with dozens of images, posing that confederate hair insights and 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 within 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, from 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 the 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. we're not even nascar, an icon of traditional southern culture turned against the flag with an appeal to patriotism. they tell has got a special offer for race fan. so we can trade in your confederate flag for an american one. anti flag momentum reached a climax when president obama delivered the eulogy for mother emanuel. pastor clemente pinkney over in the flag from the states. capital would not be an act of political correctness, not in salts. of the balance, federal sold me simply me an acknowledgement that the cause for

which they fought. mm. the cause of slavery was then 2 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 good make, you know, i'm not going to you care about me. if you care about this for the story you're supposed fixed a, 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. our government is sanctioning that shows and symbol of a terrorist organization on our state far. i love being 7 or i love be in 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 time in peace. and what they're gonna do is they're trying to fill us because mississippians that we should change. we're not gonna change. you know, i don't live here a and are willing i 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 in mississippi, and of course we lived here now in 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 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 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 same way 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 funds, a confederate veteran. when i started doing my family research, i found that my family on both sides union and confederate, but if some people lane last, some people lane, right, or elaine's out, we want people to remember our past what our ancestors went through. and this friday that we've 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 in 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, you know, with

a sounds of confederate veterans purposes not to defend confederate government or purposes to defend the good name of the confederate soldier of the tech, which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere are not, can they not monuments to the federal government, they're monuments to the, to the soldiers to the veterans. most of the came back terribly wanted, ah, supplied that those men were masters of some sort and that's 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 and $1840.00 i think is 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 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 is she 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 hands delays came down that paul walked in that church and feel those people. it was a human being that did that lot of flat. open your mouth. open your mouth. oh, we keep them your mouth open. it are, 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 us 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 u. s. y again. why not be offended? because if that's what 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 on money and power in the only way you could get money and power here, new style is if you kill a decent franchise people it's like plain and simple. always knew what the confederate emblem made to us is 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 for for only one. main thing is important for knox. ism internationally speaking to that is that nations that's allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the mind, the nations who are the slaves. americans, brock, obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves american interest. if it doesn't,

it doesn't exist by turning those russians into this. danger is boy, man that wants to take over the world. that was a culture strategy and walked out of it on your own. i not leashed off in zebulon and tablet block. nato said it's ours. we moved east. the reason us, hey jim, it is so dangerous. is it the law? the sovereignty of all the countries, the exceptionalism that american uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nato, what is bad shareholders in united states and elsewhere in large obs companies would lose millions of millions or is business and business is good? and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fashion. and look

forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, accept where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great truck rather than fit with some very job with artificial intelligence. real seminar with a protect its own existence with ah, a

lady, she is really a serious superstition and you have to look young. something's always just the red . but it's not just the way it represents. inequality has hatred. and a flag was always present like it was a south carolina when those people were innocently shock. we got a flag, represents the fluid. we have them when you have the love and you have a

world that we're still mississippi but our day with god, the call now oh wow. oh, sons of confederate veterans and members of the k k. k. say that they are christians. i just it is my hope in my desire that god will push them to portray christine how do you change the honda romanian? well, all my my have man, a habit of man. when you're begun

a lot will be june. my mother, she awful welfare rights for women. they host her down with hoses. she still had the bite marks on her leg from the doll. and she also went to jail and i was like to know this, my mamma. why? why not? i mean, she's the sweetest person. oh no. why would somebody do that to her? it was appalling when the news came on about the shooting. mama say they don't make no. if i stood up, you went to jail and get beat for human rights and civil rights and welfare. right. yeah. better do something. and when she fe, alberta, 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. oh more than 200 people. march from j. r lynch 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 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 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 the 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 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. back with that lawsuit leather, 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 and the flag of 189-4158 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 mississippians 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 hm. mississippi's constitution of $1890.00 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 plan will put the flags all over the story. 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 confirmed veteran certificate. what really got me just fired about well known and some kind of like a better organization is because of what's going on in the country discrimination against black people, discrimination against and use with discrimination against us. or what about discrimination against southerners? they accuse us of all be in races, you know, and it's a sign of

a 1000000 is what the flag means, a lot of people and that's why like k and other groups used to play the part that me out. 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 right now to make the things take it 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 at a moment 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,

the way 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 right now we need something new. it began with a whole lot of sketching, a lot of know, 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 a 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. when of course, my grandfather was an us senate and 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 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 this dennis flag quickly became popular and caught the attention of state representative kathy sikes, who was the 1st legislator to advocate for the status flag as a viable alternative to the flag of 894. the at the recent g. 20 meeting in bali in the west did all it could with the help of corporate media to isolate russia. all their efforts came to nothing. in fact, the opposite happened. russia was a welcome participate nato's proxy war in ukraine does united much of the global.

so it's nature against the world. with watching it was a shorter one. i'm not going to say like a national z. m a a

out the same becomes the african and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves well, the part we choose to look for common ground ah 50 russian service men land in moscow after being released from ukrainian captivity following the latest business . well, we hear the stories 1st complain between the democratic republic of the congo and rebel groups may soon end. as east african nations agreed to mediate the rebels withdrawal form occupied areas. this is the most important thing for us is that we want peace to that our children who remain in the east of the country, our mothers, fathers, children, older brothers will live in peace. we need help.