Video: Tupelo Black Leaders Say Take the Flag Down

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – Some impassioned Tupelo citizens took to the podium at Tuesday’s City Council meeting to call for the removal of the Mississippi flag.

A number of speakers expressed their anger over the state flag which includes the Confederate battle flag. They claim that flag is a symbol of racist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Bishop Clarence Parks related an incident from his childhood when he and some friends were accosted by a carload of white teenagers.

“They got out of the car and they began to call us the “N” word. I would not know any of those people if they were standing in front of me today. But what was branded in my mind that day on the back of that car was a Confederate flag.”

The city is still waiting on an Attorney General’s opinion before voting on the issue.

Some Tupelo residents are threatening a lawsuit if the city does decide to remove the flag.

 

 

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