Macy Gray believes it’s an ideal opportunity to change the banner of the United States of America.

The 53-year-old Grammy-winning R&B artist lyricist offered her remarks in an exposition posted on the financial exchange news site Marketwatch on Thursday, June 17, two days before Juneteenth, which celebrates the finish of subjection the United States and which has additionally indeed been called Emancipation Day and Black Independence Day. That very day Gray distributed her exposition, U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marked a bill into law to make Juneteenth a government occasion.

“President Biden, Madame Harris and individuals from Congress: the American banner has been commandeered as code for a particular conviction,” composed the “I Try” vocalist. “God favours those devotees; they can have it. Like the Confederate, it is worn out, dated, troublesome, and inaccurate. It no longer addresses majority rule government and opportunity. It no longer addresses ALL of us. It’s anything but reasonable to be compelled to respect it. It’s anything but’s another banner.”

In her paper, Gray incorporated a portrayal of her optimal U.S. banner. It has 52 stars as opposed to 50—which address the conditions of the Union—and some of them are different shades of earthy coloured instead of simple white.

“D.C. furthermore, Puerto Rico has been campaigning for statehood for quite a long time. Both have been denied since statehood would permit every domain’s chosen authorities seats in the house,” Gray composed. “Expecting D.C. reps would be African-American and Puerto Rican reps would be Hispanic, a definitive supposition that will be that these chosen authorities would be Democratic,” Gray composed. “That by itself is bigoted.”