In the wake of racial violence over the weekend in Virginia, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi renewed his call Monday to remove the Confederate battle emblem from his state’s flag.

The Republican senator advocated the change in light of the fact that an altered version of the Mississippi flag was displayed Saturday during the neo-Nazi rally in the central Virginia city of Charlottesville, The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger reported.

Speaking at the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, Wicker said he did not like using tragedy to advance policy, but said it would be best to remove the emblem from the state flag.

“Certainly they have no right to be using our state flag as a symbol of white supremacy,” he said. “It would be more unifying if we put this Mississippi flag in a museum and replaced it with something that was more unifying. That is still my position.”

Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper said the person who allegedly used a car to run over counter-protesters in Charlottesville on Saturday should be tried for murder but deferred to state leaders on whether the Mississippi flag should be changed.