These guys protested the Confederate flag 20 years ago and all they got
was this defunct t-shirt company
WRITTEN BY Melvin Backman
... Theirs was the Confederate flag redone in the red, black, and green of Marcus Garvey’s pan-African flag—which also happened to be the logo for their clothing company, NuSouth ... NuSouth’s creators were trying to reclaim the Confederate flag as a symbol for black Southerners — and make a little money to in the process ... Quintero recruited local artist Colin Quashie to help design the graphics. At the time, he’d been working on a series of six Confederate flags in the pan-African colors, entitled “Options,” and that’s what they went with. “Everyone was shouting it’s about heritage not hate and these guys said ‘fine,'” said Quashie, who falls decidedly in the “hate” camp. (“It was put up as a symbol of intimidation for African-Americans during the civil rights movement,” he told Quartz. “That’s all it will ever be.”) ...
http://qz.com/446005/these-guys-protested-the-confederate-flag-20-years-ago-and-all-they-got-was-this-defunct-t-shirt-company/