A Louisiana candidate for the United States Senate burns a Accomplice flag in his newest video advert, launched Wednesday.
Gary Chambers, a Baton Rouge group activist and Democrat, is noticed striking a big Accomplice combat flag on a line with clothespins sooner than dousing it with gas and environment it ablaze.
My new advert, ‘Scars and Bars.’
Right here in Louisiana and everywhere in the South, it looks like Jim Crow by no means left and the remnants of the Confederacy stay.
I do imagine the South will upward push once more, however this time, it’ll be on our phrases.
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— Gary Chambers (@GaryChambersJr) February 9, 2022
“We should burn what stays of the Confederacy down,” Chambers says in a voiceover, as he condemns a machine this is “generating measurable inequity,” for Black folks, together with top charges of poverty and coffee get admission to to medical insurance.
The advert comes 3 weeks after Chambers’ remaining primary advert, which confirmed him smoking marijuana. In that advert, Chambers, who’s Black, decries racial disparities in arrests for the drug.
My first marketing campaign advert, ‘37 Seconds.’ #JustLikeMe
I’m hoping this advert works not to handiest destigmatize the usage of marijuana, but in addition forces a brand new dialog that creates the pathway to legalize this advisable drug, and forgive those that had been arrested because of out of date ideology. percent.twitter.com/G0qKvmUGKD
— Gary Chambers (@GaryChambersJr) January 18, 2022
The brand new advert seemed an afternoon after the state Senate rejected a transfer to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.
Supporters of a 2nd Black-majority district say two of the state’s six Congressional districts must have Black majorities, noting a couple of 3rd of the state’s individuals are Black.
Chambers says within the advert that gerrymandered election districts maintaining Black citizens underrepresented are a byproduct of the Confederacy.
Chambers is one among two Democrats who’ve introduced plans to problem incumbent Republican Sen. John Kennedy this 12 months. The opposite is former Military pilot Luke Mixon.
