Lawyer: Mississippi flag sends white supremacy message
NEW ORLEANS - In the latest legal wrangling over one of Mississippi’s most prominent symbols, a lawyer for a man who objects to the state’s flag said Tuesday the Confederate-themed banner sends a message of “white supremacy.”
The comments by Michael Scott came during a federal appeals court hearing on a long-running feud over the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag.
African-American attorney Carlos Moore, who is suing the state, contends the flag is “state-sanctioned hate speech.” His 2016 lawsuit says it sends a message that black residents are second-class citizens.
“The message is one of white supremacy,” Scott, who represents Moore, argued to the three-judge panel in a New Orleans courtroom.
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