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time the generations of people change. i'm a hip hop artist i you feel popular in latin, and i respect honoring your ancestors. i honor mine and that's kind of i feel where the class happens because no one's going to back down from that. but i need you to acknowledge the brutality that was carried out under that banner. and once you can do that, then hopefully a dialogue can begin. and we can come to some sort of agreement because i'd rather have you with my neighbor that my enemy we deal with a
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pretty flag that's about the extent of it. it does not replace what we have. i understand, you know, the 20 stores the significance and what the meaning of that supposed to be, but nothing about it. honors confederate, veterans soldiers, nothing. this cemetery that we're going to go and i say cemetery, it's not much of a cemetery is just a few grades. but to me this is what our state flag is about. this is why our flag should remain the same.
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and this was originally just a small family cemetery. bo railroad tracks are in the same place. those or, and they ran from meridian to jackson and owned vicksburg. soldiers died when the train brought up here. they didn't even know the names of these soldiers. these are some of the filings who fall and died and their families never heard from them. again. didn't know where they were buried . what happened to them, this one right here, it says a 6 brave soldier, sleep here. and that's kind of ha,
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feel about it. they were brave, they were honorable by didn't fight to preserve slavery. they fought because their home was invited in recalls their, their state asking to and it was honorable thing to do in ah, how can you say that when that cause that you say that they fought so nobly for was girded up by slavery. and you know, the whole reason for mississippi getting into the civil war,
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they say very plainly, it's about preserving slavery in the sense that it goes back almost to are found in this country. that, that the belief that america is a white man. and anybody else who comes here has to back down to the white man's rules. so it's about white supremacy. it's about power and control. it's about maintaining the status quo. and any kind of change occurs in this country where there is progress made towards diversity. is responded to as it is a threat to the white man. if we're going to change this flag and then some brave white man, i'm going to have to stand up and step up. and it's got to happen in the midst of the legislature. a
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last legislative session, there were 19 bills related to the flag this session there 2002. all of those bills related to change or a means by which we can change the flag has been introduced by african american legislators. they bill for in support of the current state flag have all been introduced by white male, conservative legislators in 2001 the people of mississippi voted on a flag and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the current flag. well, i don't think we as elected representatives, have the right to overturn their decision. now, whether you like it or not, we can argue about that. but the decision was made by the people of mississippi to keep the current flag. so do you have a personal feeling about the flag? i personally believe that we should keep the flag. i think that the narrative that
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any m lorine thing there that harkens back to the civil war is somehow racist or in support of slavery is just wrong. what we have to do is spend the time to educate every one of what the real history with the belief that the flag issue will be settled when we all understand the real history of the civil war is attractive, but which part of the history confederate heritage supporters argue that the civil war was not fought to free the slaves because abraham lincoln himself said, so it is original inaugural address. he said, if i could preserve the union free and all the slaves, i do that i can preserve the union, but free and some slice that i can preserve the union afraid doug slighted,
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that he was reserved and though lincoln was morally opposed to slavery, he held common racist beliefs and then there's the core one amendment a whole and then it was proposed to actually legalize labor. and i tried to propose it to the southern people to get them to not to join, get back in the union, but they denied they didn't want to have any part of it. all had been a bile was library, than the cord amendment would affix that. because it stated that the south to perpetuate key is peculiar institution which referred to slavery. if they would not succeed from the union. the core one amendment passed both houses of congress in 1861 lincoln, in his 1st inaugural address, said he would not interfere with it. had the corps would amendment been adopted before the civil war began. it would have provided
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a constitutional protection for slavery. in the united states, and it would have been the 13th amendment but mississippi made it clear that they seceded to protect slavery. in part because they believed that black people were better suited to work in the oppressive heat. a requirement for picking cotton and some white mississippians feared that emancipation wouldn't just mean economic ruin . it would lead to something they fear, even more racial equality. this was made clear when a commissioner name william l harris was sent to georgia to persuade them to join mississippi in seceding from the union and form a southern confederacy of slave holding states in an address to the georgia general assembly. he said, our fathers made this a government for the white man, rejecting them as an ignorant, inferior barbarian race, incapable of self government. he concluded his speech, saying,
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mississippi would rather see the last of her race. men, women and children immolate in one common funeral pyre, can see them subjugated to the degradation of civil political and social equality with a race. georgia joined the confederacy. 3 months later, when our previous president was there was nothing but a big hey. and it seemed like there was more of a, a war of rice war, more space on the why was really what it was, this isn't a racial thing, not my enemies will favor anything racial at all. we're, we're out here. we're standing for southern pri network knows it heavily with his friends we're. we're downgrades rule if i believe that will that will bailey with home surround everybody. finally you just rested because it's like don't stay. information was just our heritage was
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set on a table and hash out the way it come to an understanding that this is the way we feel, regardless how you feel. you know, the way you feels while you feel would change. what i'm asking you to change that we're asking you to come to a place in your life where you can excel, what we do as we say up what you do, what the odds of that happening are slim and then how much do they leave? you get freedoms down for a week or 2. 0 wow. i believe people will actually a more inverse all rosie religion with her and say flag flag of 18. $94.00 is the symbol of the mississippi that adopted the constitution of 18. 90 mississippi as governor at that time, james arden unabashedly stated,
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mississippi's constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate from politics. like the world. no, it just does. it is governor barnum and also said if it is necessary and every oh in the state will be lynched, and it will be done to maintain white supremacy. sometimes you'll hear people say, oh, assume you such a bear. please. return our phone bill. quite frankly, very big. that's fine, they can stay wherever they are. i'm whitish boyish. if i didn't wipe mississippi all. ready li, if you don't white mississippi where you're leaving, i invite you to do the same. final place where you can be, i've been raised in this state. and i love mississippi. if people have that the and say, if you don't like it, you can go on with my family, have been here for more than a century in that flag of deal. when it is to me. no,
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i was going to take the flag away from you. can we add on value on your travel, on your car in your yard? that's what the 1st amendment gives you. but without, without these date flag, they represent all mississippi. and in that way, i do not represent all this employees with a loan i paid for the summer flooring. deal to stumble was then yeah. like i'm, i'm not feeling well but a deep now. so, but in point of this on the floor i would at last, but i had, i left that machine with a policy daily mother started at that. and what i did, what i did well, that's edible up. let me look it up. let me finish with,
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i mean, dina, like got you're got to replace the dealership a month or whatever. when you go to meeting you, you up with up. i'll say no problem like i was supposed to do a little bit of good. you know, you mentioned way of what he'll say, did you not get a reply to them? oh, great. when you have to run it up, it's almost l . 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 order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point, obviously, is to rates trust rather than fear
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is hurtful to 30 percent. busy people in your room or it shows up a lot in the summer of 2015 the web with the assistance of compromising republicans, launched in attack, or symbols representing the confederate states of america. after guillory loss, donald trump was elected. there were rhymes from j u l i and we protestors, mostly minorities, can be seen in the demonstration chain, do not president a reply to that in may. what do you think, whatever the answer is on the fly, bear with the numbers for you probably heard a little boy that gave me pain
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with very what about the people there? tell a little boys that a a b y. right. why? because there's a point of view that says we have a move, i met re shores once before and he said something to me in that conversation i'd heard from other confederate heritage supporters. but ray was the only one who set
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it on camera. he had said that slavery was, it was a natural condition. i don't know exactly what i said them. but i remember the interview, the relationship between the slave and the master wasn't accepted thing and a, it was there was a love between them. i want them to understand what you're saying here is that, that, that, that it didn't matter or arrange. and you're saying that in the united states in mississippi, that it was a natural flavor, was natural and that the relationship could be a natural thing, could be yes, it could be no, there could be people who felt like it was and that like the slaves, some of them perhaps you think it was not um yeah, i don't think it was already approved for. okay. what the position? yes. i just accepted it as a, as their station in the long do you see a situation where blacks could be masters to why would that be now?
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would that be no and yeah, i think in some cases very well, you know, i had a, a supervisor when i worked at a department store one time that was bought in opposite orders from him and did what he told me to do it. but you had your freedom of use, do you had your liberty? could you imagine situation where you were, look the slave of a black master? well that, let me just say that that's not something that i can just fully comprehend. and imagine right here here in your question, but i'd be happy to think about it. yeah, i'm just curious. i basically told him, i said, hey, i'm one of those new ways, young black such a fear. you sent me to a war. i notice how much i love america. you made the comment. so my state, i got my education. and now what you've done is you created was someone who isn't afraid of someone who's going to come at you. whatever else bread there. and we're
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going to make sure we get that flag that i will go down to where it seems like, you know, we are 40 percent and we can make the site. not be afraid of these guys, because there are some, the biggest cows in the world. are you a veteran? did you ever serve the say? no. well, you're here because of the sort of funny man refunded me by the spring of 2017 cities and counties throughout the state had renew mistake flag from government buildings as well as all a public universities in the rallies and public meetings are becoming more confrontational. now with me and you get a
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good one, mayor, job and takes it, has to take it to devote to the people in mississippi, including the shredder. she's got a, this is our home. these are our symbols with what appears to be a sign, but it's also she take a liquid to only give you an opportunity to wrong with a a nearby morland's, a city with a 60 percent black population. the court to just to prove the city council's plan
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to remove 4 prominent confederate statues from public property, including the monument to jefferson davis, president of the confederacy for confederate heritage, supporters like george. their fears were coming true. confederate monuments were now under attack. their argument is this, these statues and the symbols of the southern people are racist and promote y supremacy. that is their argument. we got this guy walk around with the communist black here and he's going around just talking smack, just walking up people in just colonist white supremacists and racist and everything like that. but we are all willing to protect ourselves. if we feel threatened, we will use our weapons. or you barbara now? yes sir. would you would you find out if i felt threatening my life was starting your day? right. i would really and you're willing to be shuttled now and this is
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a cause i'm willing to give my life or do you think that comes from for years and years, any time i'll walk around with my state flag. this is the flag of my state. and i get very sick and tired of being called a racist and i'm big it because it because i'm proud of for up front and it's came to a point then we're not going to take it in. and we've given compromise. ah, we've lost a lot and we're not gonna lose any more. when you're on the right side of history. it's always worth fighting for. oh,
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you don't know about reality dice this, otherwise you'd realize that this isn't like monumental ice from if you know it fits amani people and i was just because you say that job, it may be the most prejudiced i've ever heard in my life. you don't know any of these people in your car all why surprises do not hear prejudiced on them. that way we did a tower, they're looking for trouble. so they can get us. basically kicked out of here, arrested. break our spirit. but we're not gonna fall for you guys, please get them over there and separate them before hits the fan, if you would, we would greatly appreciate. can i not go over on the other side of the street? there's grass over there. they're going to have a cookout over there,
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but they're over here trying to instigate us. you see this is rolling the window up on me. he's rolling the window. you see that? he just rolled the window up on me. all him rode the window. i work, what's your name and your badge number, sir. what's your name? your badge noble. what's your name in your badge number? it is all my shirt. may i get your name in your bedroom or not citizen? ashley renaming your badge number, you're supposed to gave it your public servant. you say they roll the window. they rolled the window up, they don't care. there won't in trouble. there was a fan over a i with,
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[000:00:00;00] with, [000:00:00;00] with a history you've read the article with there about maintaining slavery right.
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ah ah, in response to the violence of the jefferson davis monument, a group of self identifying white supremacists and neo nazis gathered at least circle in new orleans. where a white civil rights with they were there to protest the plans, removal of a statue of confederate general robert lee or white on this day. it wasn't possible to separate confederates symbols from racist beliefs. a, a, with
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whom 4 days later, the jefferson davis statue was taken down. who and robert e lee was removed from his pedestal. at least sir, ah, ah ah ah
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ah, ah, a job with this because they get to school. if you can give that to the new year for you, i teach that way. know i'm reaching out to school and you have to get a little bit of a wishing i cheated a little bit, but there will most more, more william, for from story from bush. not some of them. all big lot of job then you what the continuum will just i get i use one or more scholarly. i'm with
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a study carson brought i used to finish. this is just a fraction of what your gums going to bill for the month, or you are a few. sure. sherman, yes, i'm a little bit of good induction. ah. with the headlines on all the international here, a alleged collaborates is through a new chat thought, which is now being used to target. potentially innocent civilians is waiting for the is demolish of palestinian elementary school. in the occupied west bank offer a court rules that was built illegally, moved for children to flee just before the building was less than it used to be home to 23 boys and girls to hear the yacht. they now have to find another place to

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