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Mississippi flag’s Confederate imagery incites ‘acts of racial violence,’ lawsuit alleges

    The Washington Post----- Wesley Lowery

© Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press

Several hundred people gather at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson for a rally to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, a month after flag supporters gathered…

One week after attempts to remove Confederate imagery from Mississippi’s state flag stalled in the statehouse, a local civil rights attorney has filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the state flag violates his constitutional rights.

Carlos Moore, a Mississippi-based civil rights attorney, filed a district court lawsuit Monday alleging that the Confederate imagery incites racial violence and infringes on the 14th- Amendment protections of black residents.

“Mississippi’s official state flag with the embedded Confederate battle flag is tantamount to hateful government speech that both has a discriminatory intent and disparate impact,” the six-page lawsuit declares. “The current official state flag … encourages or incites private citizens to commit acts of racial violence.”

Mississippi is the only state that incorporates the Confederate battle flag into its state flag.

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