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but he died there on monday the same day as lynch's yacht science a gets even creepy. or when you read the names of those went down with the both jonathan bloomer, a senior us banker from the financial giant, morgan stanley. he had being the star witness for an inch. chris maurice little american prominent lawyer who defended lynch during his trial, but also was on board to do new york. and here's what he wrote right after the acquittal verdict 2 months ago. i am so glad to be home, and i live happily ever off. well, little did he know there's no doubt this string of incredible coincidence as leaves more questions than answers. why wasn't mike lynch, the owner, i'm most familiar with the amongst the survivors. how could to the statistically most try men alive, both meet tragic ends within days of each other in the most improbable ways. in any case, it looks like we may never know how to the luckiest man alive, seemingly,
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became the luckiest in the blink of an eye. very good investigative work right there for me. shape votes are rough office hours program, you know, when it comes to the mainstream media addressing the story of lynch whenever you see them and hear them saying, take it with the big picture most. make sure your question well with us. this is the, the russian states never is as tight as one of the most sense community best english. i'll send some of the same assistance to father speed. the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union,
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the kremlin media mission, the state on russia to day and split the r t supposed net, keeping our video agency roughly all the band on youtube tv services. what question did you say a request, which is the of the,
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[000:00:00;00] the 911 with the address to the emergency. a manual display depo shot down here, please send somebody right away. the manual charge manually. i me want and there's people shot the shot to pass on demanding the check. please come right away. did you see him at all? yes, he's a young 21. you. why do the
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street and when the police are not in human what happened at the mother of manuel and the church in charleston, south carolina, in the summer of 2015, was almost to her risk to comprehend a white gun and stormed into a bible study 9 church members died right before god. another dispute for church you were in charge. what do we know about who this man is? and what his motivation may have been that you re followed women and taken over the country. you have to go shortly after dylan rufus capture investigators found a racist manifesto. he posted online, along with dozens of images, posing that confederate heritage sites,
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and with confederate flags. now the focus of the nations outrage shifted from the killer himself to the symbol that seemed to contain within its borders, all the racial hatred and roofs hearts. the backlash was swift. terrific, shooting has re ignited a highly sensitive debate over the confederate flag. this flag is become assembled, the murder of racism, hatred, 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 through others eyes. you know, at the moment for society to really do a good check of our values, corporate giants like ebay target and wal mart, stop 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 pulled the flag as well. even nascar, an icon of traditional southern culture, turned against the flag with an appeal to patriotism. got
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a special offer for race fans this week. you can train in your confederate flag for an american. one. anti flag momentum reached a climax when president obama delivered the eulogy from other a manual pastor. comment of painting, removing the flag from the space capital would not be an act of political correctness would not being installed to the mailer. the confederates on the same with me and acknowledged the cause for which they fond of slavery. 2 weeks later, the flag came down in south carolina. for i get getting a lot of attention as all because of this, the rebel banner to make, you know, i'm not gonna listen to your or care about me. you care about the place and
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as far as the story all 16, do you think the confederate flag is offensive? as you can see, it's about even with somebody. just tell me why this sense they're here. our government is functioning the chosen symbol of a terrorist organization. our state far. i love the southern or i love the southern bell. i think we have the most beautiful flags we need to fight for. my problem is the safe place to with the everyone in not a time in east and what they're trying to do is they're trying to sell us cars. mississippians that we should change, right? you don't want
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the i was born and raised in the north. my irish great great grandfather, michael o'connor was an officer in the union army. but i married in mississippi and, and of course we live here. now. 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. he was elected president of the confederacy. there's another jeff davis avenue, a short drive away, and jefferson davis,
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his home and presidential library is just up the highway like many mississippi county courthouse as a monument to confederate soldiers. and some of our neighbors splitting the states 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 jail and brandon, mississippi change seems inevitable to tell me um, what sort of interactions are you having with folks who are interested in buying mississippi state paper or buying mississippi state flags more than usual? evidently, there must be a shortage on the road somewhere and it is shame. my name is tim q, but i'm a member of the sons of confederate veterans. when i started doing my family
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research, i found that my family photo on both sides union and confederate, but to some people lane last something of elaine. right? well outline south. we want people to remember our past what our ancestors went through. and this prize that we made the, i appreciate you being here and i hope that when you're doing your documentary that you present both sides on a positive manner and, and let people make their mind for themselves. i understood that considered a 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 on the film that i wasn't going to choose aside mr. date. and i wasn't here to judge anyone. i simply wanted to
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understand why mississippians were so divided over state flags whose purpose should be to unite us. mm. the signs of confederate veterans purposes not defend, considered our purposes to defend the name of the confederates. so that's the of the take, which i take very seriously because these monuments that you see everywhere or not
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can, but they're not monuments to the federal government. they're monuments to the, to this soldiers to the veterans. most of the came back terribly wanted the ship replied that those masters of some sort in that's not true. and so i can't just sit there while that story gets told this. i know it's not true. of course, for me, i'm fascinated with mississippi history and particularly because the census in 1840 i think is the 1st one. so everybody here was 20 years old. everybody to know 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. the desktop, the,
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that's how we got here was these people were determined to live the or the same dna. some do not do, but not only with sweetwater anus, any part in for any it say not done. look, this state flag, she never would have been brought back up if it wasn't for what happened on june the 17 in charleston, south carolina. they want you to believe that that flag grew hands and legs came down. the pole walked in that church and field, those people, it was a human being that did that. not a slide the open your mouth. open your mouth
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the we keep them your mouth open, it does something with a concussion. every flag has its history. it has its broad 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 dc . and they're only flying us flag. so, 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. the
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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, new style is if you kill a disenfranchised people in slight sign is always knew what the confederate gambling meant to us is african americans. but what can you tell me what it always meant to you? patriot lynchings, beatings, poverty. why supremacy is just the disgusting ambulance? i feel that way because i leave the
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line. scott bennett, i'm a former united states army psychological warfare officer, really served in the state department counterterrorism office under investor del bailey. the so i wanted to come here to russia in the dawn bass area and gather the facts to take back to the american people. the, the full dawn bass as the front lines and the square, the bombs and the bullets are raging. this is where people are dying. this is where the buildings are exploding the
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go. i wanted to see 1st hand the scars of war. the . the state is a series through disease suffix or just references in in a flag is always present like it was, is south carolina shot
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records. the 16 the thing about the business there was steal, mississippi slower, the lot of phones of consider with veterans and members of the k k k. i
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say that they are christian. i just, it is my hope in my desire that god would push them to put tre. christine, how do you change the heart of a man? no. may not change. so it can, it does change the habits of man. when you begin to change the habits of men for this purpose, the hops will be changed. my mother, she file for welfare wise for women. they how sit down with hoses. she still have the bite marks only from the dog. and she also went to jail and i was like to know this, my mama, why, why? i mean, she's the sweetest person. oh no one was somebody to do that to her it was upheld.
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and when the news came on about the shooting, mamma said they don't make no sense if i stood up and went to jail and get beat for human rights and civil rights, some way of feeling, right? yeah, i'll be able to do something. and when she said, y'all better do something, we do something, or i'm the director of a flat file mississippians coalition. i've just been going around trying to raise awareness about the importance of removing the confederate emblem from our state flag is going to be hard, but it's not impossible. you just have to keep pushing. it keeps drive and i just thank god for the grace and mercy because you need
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a whole lot of people march from g r lynch street to the state capital calling for change and the state slide, we just need a flag that were unified. everyone, the not long after i met sharon's, she stepped away from her leadership role with the flag for all mississippians initiative to the health reasons. it would be some time before i could talk to sharon on camera again. she found her the ally and lia campbell, an anti flag activist on the mississippi gulf coast. for me as a white woman, it's incumbent upon me as a, as a white mississippi. 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.
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the i grew up in the south. so i didn't have a sense of the racism that still exist here. and um, it would be an i me or anyone else to deny that that exist. stanley shooting and charleston happened. and i distinctly remember saying the best photo doing raised closing with the confederate large and reading his blog post. and then watch governor nikki haley, have the courage to take that confederate envelope down from south carolina state house ground. it really made me angry that our governor and our legislators could not just by the same courage. so i knew i had to get involved were fighting
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the do you feel when they everywhere, legs her, that why, why, what we are better than mississippi is better than the this wasn't the 1st time mississippians have wrestled over their flag in 1993 html a c, p c,
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with the state to change the flag for familiar reasons. that lawsuit level discovery that due to a legislative error in 19 o, 6, mississippi did not have an official state flag in 2001 governor. ronnie must grow decided to settle the issue with the statewide referendum, asking voters to choose between 2 flags. the current flag at the time which had been adopted in 1894, and a new design. now the mississippi slag is wavering. at this time, voters will decide if the confederates symbol will fall. the flag of 18941 by nearly 2 to one margin, settling the issue for the time being the flag of 18. 94 was adopted just 4 years after mississippi and continued to constitutional convention to write a new state constitution. for civil war had ended 30 years earlier. and although
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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 to re gained political controls and the majority black population through 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 denied a citizen the right to vote based on race. let's tell the truth of it 1st. the bottom of the university said we came here to exclude the other convention. delegates confirmed this notion the mississippi's constitution of 18. 90 included a poll tax and a literacy test that effectively prevented generations of black citizens from
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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. the college of a flag trade finding on the flags all over the street in a, as i got the horizontal limbs hanging out. so i was like, well, i'll put some flags out. so i'm a true blooded, southern mississippi, mississippi, southern man. right. and, and, and i accepted and i are relishing that because that's who i am. that's who, who i, where are my family is coming from. my family has lived in the state of mississippi before it even became a state of the i am a direct descendant of james jefferson. johnson is my great,
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great great grandfather. he fought in the 41st mississippi infantry, and this is my son's a confederate veteran certificate. what really got me this part of a route joining some kind of a confederate organization is because of what's going on in the country and discrimination against black people, discrimination against the jews within scrutinizing or against us. and what about who is currently engaged against others? they accuse us of all being races, you know, and it's a sign of or 1000000 is what the play me. so a lot of people and that's why i like k k, k and other groups used to play the part that me off the worst is ours. my ancestors would have put a stop to it before you know, a got to the point that is today. we're anytime in by say that fly, that automatically seems k k typing person is referred to as a confederate flag. graphically,
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it is daunting. 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 evidence whatsoever. we're at the moment we're we can do this right and well and respectfully for all involved. i don't like name collins. 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, 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 all right. now we need something new. it began with a whole lot of sketching, a lot of know, taking a lot of research aside really as a living symbol and document and piece of art. but there are 19 stars along the outer edge. we were the 20th state to join the union,
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the color red symbolizes passion and blood. i chose the color white as a field because it, 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. and of course, my grandfather was a 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 um, you know, 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 spanish flag as a viable alternative to the flag of 18. 94.
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