Black drivers who saw this Confederate flag in London, Ont. have a message for homeowner
From The CBC/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/black-drivers-who-saw-this-confederate-flag-in-london-ont-have-a-message-for-homeowner-1.6355679
'Trish Kiwanuka spotted the flag while driving on Wednesday and was shocked to see it on its own 10-metre tall flag pole in the middle of a lawn beside a two-storey house.
"It just made my heart stop," said Kiwanuka. "As a person of colour when you see a symbol of white supremacy from an era when Black people were owned as slaves, it kind of makes you feel nervous."
The Confederate flag, with its blue cross and white stars over a red background, has a complicated history. It was flown during the Civil War by the secessionist states, notoriously by General Robert E. Lee's army that fought to preserve slavery.
But it has also been used by hundreds of extremist groups across the southern United States, including the Ku Klux Klan. And there have been fierce debates in the United States in recent years about flying the Confederate flag, including outside government buildings.'
There's much more text and some photos at the link, plus access to the regular
CBC feature Being Black In Canada. The CBC has been presenting a lot of
information here in Black History Month that shows that there's still a lot to be done.
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She says it "doesn't mean anything," but now that they've been called out on it, her husband/partner/whatever he is runs out and yanks it down?
Surely this cannot be a coincidence!
