Macy Gray is celebrating Juneteenth by calling for a redesign of one of the United States’ most iconic symbols: its flag. In an essay published Thursday June 17 on the Wall Street-focused news site Market Watch, Gray says that in the wake of the 2020 election and the deadly insurrection at the U.S.
Capitol, America needs a new emblem. “President Biden, Madame Harris and members of Congress: the American flag has been hijacked as code for a specific belief,” the “I Try” singer writes.
Referring to the insurrectionists and the current American flag, Macy says, “God bless those believers, they can have it. Like the Confederate [flag], it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect.
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