Paramore‘s Hayley Williams is among those calling for the Mississippi state flag to be changed because it contains the Confederate battle emblem.Mississippi is the last state in the US whose flag features the emblem.
White supremacists in the Mississippi Legislature put the emblem on the upper left corner of state flag in 1894.An important vote concerning the removal of it took place on Friday (June 26), and before it took place Williams shared a series of tweets pleading with lawmakers to vote in favour of the emblem’s removal.“I was born in Meridian, MS.
lived there thru 2001,” she began. “Transparently, I have some awful memories from life there but a lot of the good ones i keep involve my black schoolmates & neighborhood friends.“Those.
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