Post by pavel on Mar 1, 2016 1:01:05 GMT -6
A lawsuit filed on Monday in Mississippi aiming to remove the state's flag from government buildings says the flag's Confederate imagery violates the 14th Amendment protections of black residents, the Washington Post reported.
The suit, filed in district court by civil rights attorney Carlos Moore, comes a week after efforts to remove Confederate imagery from Mississippi's state flag stalled in the statehouse. Mississippi's is the only state flag to include Confederate images, which the lawsuit calls "state-sanctioned hate speech."
The suit is against Mississippi Gov. Dewey "Phil" Bryant.
"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 lawsuit says.
Read more: www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Confederate-flag-violates-14th-amendment-lawsuit-6861533.php
The suit, filed in district court by civil rights attorney Carlos Moore, comes a week after efforts to remove Confederate imagery from Mississippi's state flag stalled in the statehouse. Mississippi's is the only state flag to include Confederate images, which the lawsuit calls "state-sanctioned hate speech."
The suit is against Mississippi Gov. Dewey "Phil" Bryant.
"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 lawsuit says.
Read more: www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Confederate-flag-violates-14th-amendment-lawsuit-6861533.php