One woman's lifelong battle against the Confederate flag in Mississippi

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By Associated Press -September 13, 2020 10:00 AM

'Each generation, there has been someone to pick up the torch.'

The path that brought rapper and activist Genesis Be to a New York City stage, her body draped in a Confederate flag and a noose hung around her neck, was a long one.

Growing up in Mississippi, that flag seemed to be everywhere.

It was at her elementary school in Biloxi named after Jefferson Davis, the leader of the Confederacy, and when her middle school took her to his library and home on a field trip.

It was there when she walked on stage at her high school graduation, when she attended Jefferson Davis Community College, and on the upper-left corner of the Mississippi state flag, where it was embedded by white supremacist lawmakers in 1894.

It was even one of her earliest memories. She first saw the Confederate flag — the red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars — at age 5 when her father took her to a Ku Klux Klan rally. He wanted her to see up close the people who hated them just for being Black.

https://americanindependent.com/mississippi-state-flag-confederate-ku-klux-klan-genesis-be-rapper/

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1. Good for her. Here is the new flag which will be voted on in November

Polling show a very small majority in favor of changing the state flag. That is pretty remarkable as two years ago a large majority opposed making any changes.

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2. Thanks ..........a lot better than stars and bars..............