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One US state changes flag due to protests

Mississippi officially decided to change the last state flag in the United States with the emblem of the Confederation, a racist symbol that has served as a source of conflict for generations. Writes about it The Guardian.

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Mississippi Governor Republican Tate Reeves signed a historic bill changing the 30-year-old state flag on Tuesday June 126th.

“To me, this is not a political moment, but a solemn occasion of the extended Mississippi family coming together and moving on,” Reeves said. “We are a resilient people, defined by our hospitality. We are people of great faith. Now more than ever, we must build on that faith, put our differences behind us and come together for the greater good.”

Mississippi lawmakers faced growing pressure to change the flag, which featured the Confederate emblem - a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars.

On Sunday, June 28, a coalition of lawmakers passed a bill to change the flag and called on the commission to develop a new one, which voters will have to approve in the November 3 election.

Proponents of a flag change say it cannot represent a state in which 38% of the population are black. The Mississippi flag was approved in 1894, thirty years after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery (1865).

Mississippi voters decided to keep the flag in the state election in 2001, while supporters said they considered it a symbol of southern heritage. But since then, an increasing number of cities and universities have not used it.

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In 2015, Speaker of the Republican House of State Philip Gunn supported the idea of ​​changing the flag after a proponent of white supremacy killed nine black parishioners in Charleston, and it turned out that the action manifesto contained images of the Confederate flag.

However, this issue was considered too unstable for the Mississippi legislators to touch upon until the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by the police caused several weeks of constant protests against racial injustice, followed by calls to remove the symbols of the Confederacy.

Young activists, athletes, businessmen, representatives of different religions, education and sports called on the Mississippi to make changes, ultimately giving legislators the impetus to vote.

The idea of ​​changing the flag met a lot of resistance. Republican Sen. Chris McDaniel said changing the flag was an affront to the country's founding values ​​and warned that the American flag would be next.

Democratic Representative Edward Blackmon Jr. argued that the state flag "should be something that we should all feel proud of."

Reeves said on Tuesday: “The people of Mississippi, black and white, young and old, can be proud of the flag, which will put our faith in the foreground. We can unite under it. We can move forward together. ”

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