Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, on Wednesday called for the state to change its flag, which has a Confederate symbol on it. “We must always remember our past — honor the good and learn from the bad.”Fitch didn’t specifically mention the flag’s Confederate symbol. Anti-racism protests have intensified years of demands led by Black activists for Mississippi to drop the Confederate symbol from the state flag. In Mississippi, Walmart announced Tuesday that it would no longer display the state flag in its stores. Mississippi State University running back Kylin Hill, who is Black, said that if the flag doesn’t change, he will no longer play representing his home state.

Source: Huffington Post June 24, 2020 18:56 UTC