{"id":568341,"date":"2021-06-18T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568341"},"modified":"2021-06-18T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T22:52:15","slug":"singer-macy-gray-says-american-flag-should-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/singer-macy-gray-says-american-flag-should-be-abolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Macy Gray Says American Flag Should Be Abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsinger-macy-gray-says-american-flag-should-be-abolished%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568341&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/og-default.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>R&#038;B singer Macy Gray argues in a new op-ed for<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/for-juneteenth-its-time-for-a-new-flag-11623958522?siteid=YAHOOB\"><span>MarketWatch<\/span><\/a><span> that the American Flag has replaced the Confederate Flag as a symbol for \u201copposition to the abolishment of slavery\u201d and should be replaced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Addressing her letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Gray, best known for her multi-platinum 1999 album, \u201cOn How Life Is,\u201d says, \u201cLike the Confederate, [the flag] is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect. It no longer represents democracy and freedom. It no longer represents ALL of us. It\u2019s not fair to be forced to honor it. It\u2019s time for a new flag.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Grammy winner then plays off the meanings behind the flag\u2019s individual elements, arguing that the white stripes that stand for purity should be off-white because \u201cPure, [America] ain\u2019t. It is broken and in pieces.\u201d She also says it should have 52 stars for the addition of D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, and those should be, not white, but an array of colors to represent the skin tones of the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gray does feel that the United States lives up to some of the splendor represented by the flag, conceding, \u201cThe blue square represents vigilance and perseverance; and the red stripes stand for valor. America is all of those things. So, what if those elements on the flag remained?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The songstress, who has released 10 studio albums and appeared in a number of films, has sounded off on politics in the past, but those comments were considerably less controversial than calling for Old Glory\u2019s retirement. In April, she spoke to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9428884\/macy-gray-my-good-nonprofit-help-families-victims-police-brutality\"><span>Billboard<\/span><\/a><span> about her new nonprofit, My Good, which she founded to offer mental health services to relatives of those who have lost loved ones in police encounters:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to ignore the fact that there are thousands of families in our country who are grieving from unaccountable deaths due to police brutality. We are here to identify those families and help them with grief counseling, legal and financial assistance. I\u2019ve spoken with a list of mothers who have lost their children in this unthinkable manner and they need help. Everyone grieves in different ways but the common thread is their question of how do they continue on \u2014 they need support and this is what we\u2019re here to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mygood.org\/gallery-3\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span> for Gray\u2019s organization highlights the fact that it is \u201cNOT an anti-police organization,\u201d [caps theirs], and takes pains to suggest that not every death of a black person at the hands of authorities is a result of brutality: \u201cRegardless of the circumstances that end a life through contact with the police; the effect on the families is devastating \u2014 emotionally, mentally, physically and financially \u2026 We are here to do as much as we can for grieving families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for why Gray decided to publicize her ideas for a new flag design now \u2014 her bio at the end of her essay reveals she and her band have just released a new album.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&#038;B singer Macy Gray argues in a new op-ed for MarketWatch that the American Flag has replaced the Confederate Flag as a symbol for \u201copposition to the abolishment of slavery\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280744,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/og-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Singer Macy Gray Says American Flag Should Be Abolished","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/og-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Singer Macy Gray Says American Flag Should Be Abolished","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}