Activists urge Governor Bryant to change state flag [View all]

Community leaders are speaking out against Governor Phil Bryant's recent response to the confederate emblem on the state flag. Last week the governor told WAPT it's wrong to associate the Mississippi flag with the flag used during the Charlottesville protests. He says shame on people for taking that political stance.

Mississippi Actress Aunjanue Ellis says the image on the state flag symbolizes intuitional racism in Mississippi.

"Our flag is essentially the same flag. It has a blue swath and a white swath and a red swath of material, but it doesn't mediagate that canton. And in that canton is the same flag the same image that they were flying in Charlottesville, and it's not just about the image it's about the principle behind it. It's about the articulation of those principles that we as Mississippians live with every day."

Mississippians voted in 2001 to keep the current flag. Some who oppose changing the flag contend the decision made 16 years ago should be final.

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