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wish that there are the spot should be open for us to crate it before them on credit market. and in telling market between africa on this in bricks, countries because these in paddling market will be able to present or to make sure that we develop our continent to didn't miss of the counties of the in break. because these countries of, in brief account is why we need to have africa positivity for india development skills. now that we are here, how we are talking directly with the partners will meet the solutions and things that will help us to make sure that all what we have done on what to wait we give in should be positive and do what i think that will help by attending this for them . the stat, africa has to come out of many, a link of colonization that we had on connect with the new in the world in the world. i did counties of the embrace and these companies of the greeks add account is that are willing to hop and proposing new. i'm concrete solutions for
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development, and i think i and this cultural machines will only come to our willingness. many thanks for taking this company here. and i see international will be back in 30 minutes with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be in arms. race is on often bearing dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very katy killed time. time to sit down and talk. hi
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there'd be one along and there's people shot, shot the past. like if you had all of the amended reject, please come 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 manuel 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. now you church members die right before god another. these people weren't church. you were in church. what do we know about? oh, this man is and what is motivation? they have been said, are you rape our women and you taken over our country and
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you have to go shortly after dylan roof was captured, investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted on line, along with dozens of images, posing that confederate harriet 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 patron. and it is clearly a symbol of this killer. 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,
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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. or 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 over the flag from the states. capital would not be an act of political correctness, not in sorts of the balance of confederate sold me simply me an acknowledgement that the cause for which they fall in the cause of slavery was then 2 weeks later the flag came down in south carolina. oh, this is a flag of getting
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a lot of attention is all because of this, the revel. banner rehab, which are good me, you know, i'm not go live here. you care about me. if you care about this bridge, the story is simple. 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 their hair, for our government is sanctioning the chosen symbol of a terrorist organization on our state. far. i love the 7 or i love the in southern bail. i think we had the most beautiful flag we need to fight. i. my problem is the safe place to where the everyone in not a time in peace. and what they're gonna do is they're trying to tell us, because mississippi and that we should change it, we're not gonna change. you know, i get the liquor
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a standing in the line with our with 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. 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
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elected president of the confederacy. there's another jeff davis ab, a short drive away in jefferson davis. his home and presidential library is just up the highway like many mississippi counties. our court house as a monument to confederate soldiers and some of our neighbors flew the state flag in their yards. something i've 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 seems inevitable. tell me what sort of interactions are you having with folks who are interested in buying mississippi people are buying mississippi state play more than usual. evidently, there must be a shortage on the horizon somewhere in it. a shame.
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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 called on both sides union and confederate, but if some people lane last sunday, the lane right, or elaine's out, we want people to remember our past what our ancestors went through. and this prize 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,
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sons of confederate veterans purposes, not to defend confederate or purposes, to defend the good name of the confederate. seldom of that you take, 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 alters 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 and particularly because the census in $1840.00. i think this 1st one. 0 everybody here was 20 years old. everybody. there were no people anywhere. and they were coming to absolutely
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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 a, for the term to live room over the sanction. do not be a bad again, our only which was a study, pardon for anything i don't look, this state flag is she 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 hey,
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angela came down that paul walked in that church and you know, those people it was a human being that did that not a flag open your mouth, open your mouth. oh. 7 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 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 black. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything,
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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 in this 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 to patron lynchings, beatings, poverty,
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why supremacy is just the disgusting ambulance? i feel that way because i leave it ah, picked up would important to have with them for to begin with celia was this because they did to squint a q t v a in new year for g. i teach their way. know i'm reaching out. sure to school and you if you did have some good bull valley or would you repeat the law for sheila? wishing i cim? i'm a new movie, but the woman was more mobile from william for from store, from bush. not so mostly your mom. they're glad of your book then you her what the continued, almost like this one for saddam most ali, i'm or they were the summer of 32 river carson brought. are you serious? i finish this is just those reported you, i was actually fully comes into the material. ordering
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a shirt interim in a bit of good enough. ah, [000:00:00;00] a ship is really a serious superstition and you have to look beyond that subject or just the red. 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
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confederate battery, and members of the k k, k. say that they are christians. i do it is my hope in my desire there thou were touched them to portray christine, how do you change the heart of man? well, the law may not change my house of men your chan on a dog chamber. habits of men. when your begun returned, i have a 2 men who it is only added, who would be j. phone off will be june. my mother, she all for welfare wise for women. they holstered down with hoses. she still held the bite marks owner lay from the doll, and she also went to jail an hour's blight. to notice my mamma, why? why not?
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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. 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, ya'll better do something. and when she fe, gao 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 state flag. it's gonna be hard but is not impasse. you just have to keep pushing and keep
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striving. i just thank god for oh, ah grace and mercy. because you need a whole lot a day. oh boy, that you had a bigger 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, 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 in lea, 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
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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 that. and then li, shooting and charleston happen. and i distinctly remember seeing the photo dylan roof posing with the confederate flag 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
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legislators could not display the same courage. oh, so i knew i had to get involved. were fighting for the soul and sent me right now. looking at me or do you think it makes them feel when they everywhere lays her that flag is flying. what are we on bad miss day is better than that. with with this wasn't the 1st time mississippians have wrestled over their flag in 1993. the n double
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a c p to the state to change the flag for familiar reasons. back with that lawsuit letter, 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 a statewide referendum, asking voter to choose between 2 flags, the current flag at the time which had been adopted in $1894.00 and a new design. now the mississippi flag is wavering, and this time voters will decide if the confederate 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,
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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 mississippians had regained political control from the majority, black population or violence and intimidation. newly formed 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 them. other convention delegates confirmed this notion in mississippi's constitution of 18. 90 included a poll tax and
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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 horizontal limbs hanging out. so i was like, wow, but since i am a true blooded, southern mississippi, southern man and, and, 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 union. i'm
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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 wanted some kind of a confederate organization is because of what's going on in the country discrimination against black people, discrimination against the jews with discrimination against us. or what about discrimination against southerners? they accuse us of all being races, you know, and it's a sign of rebellion. it's what the flag means. so a lot of people and that's why i like k k, k and other groups use the flag, 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 anytime i say that fly out american things take a taping, person, me what is referred to as
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a confederate flag? graphically, it is wherever you can separate it from all that it is stood for and a negative sounds. i'd love for us to have a symbol about which people had no evidence whatsoever. we're at a moment where we can do this right and well and respectfully, fraud involved. i don'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 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 landing point for folks who, you know, as time has passed and they've 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
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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. 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 non, we are the oppression of african americans interstate 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 flagged 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 stanish flag as
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a viable alternative to the flag of 18. 94. ah, to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult. i'm time to sit down and talk
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