African American Flag

[Gyrate]

@Erdosain

I get the food stuff is boilerplate racism, but is there any significance to the number “four eleven forty four?” I looked up April 11, 1844, but nothing seems to have happened on that day.

Four eleven forty four

[Erdosain]

Thank you! I did try to google it, but not all spelled out like that. And the wiki article explained what a policy slip was.

[Hypno-Toad]

@Sternvogel

Here are designs of the flag described in the OP, plus three other contenders.

From that website:

“The White Stripes warn African Americans to be constantly vigilant of forces that call for death of freedom and the surrender of rights guaranteed to all by the Constitution of the United States of America.”

How subtle.

[EvilTOJ]

@Mhotep

The flag was deemed necessary after a song written by two men J. Fred Helf and Will A. Heelan entitled “Every Race Has A Flag But The Coon” became popular.

Really? Every race has a flag, huh? I don’t remember seeing any beaner or honky flags lately(guess which races I am and win a flag). I thought flags were signs of nationalism, not race.

RandMcnally, I’ve done the same thing with old threads too. I’m reading along, and think “I’ll say [such and such]”, read a comment that says the exact same thing, then see the poster who said it was … me. :smack:

[bup]

@EvilTOJ

Really? Every race has a flag, huh? I don’t remember seeing any beaner or honky flags lately(guess which races I am and win a flag). I thought flags were signs of nationalism, not race.

You realize you’re arguing with two long-dead racist songwriters, and not with Mhotep, right?

[Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup]

“The White Stripes warn African Americans to be constantly vigilant of forces that call for death of freedom and the surrender of rights guaranteed to all by the Constitution of the United States of America.”

That’s funny- I never took their music for overtly political.

[TravisFromOR]

@Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup

That’s funny- I never took their music for overtly political.

[EvilTOJ]

@bup

You realize you’re arguing with two long-dead racist songwriters, and not with Mhotep, right?

I was arguing more with the idea of it, not who said it. It’s just strange.

[Simplicio]

@EvilTOJ

I was arguing more with the idea of it, not who said it. It’s just strange.

Not unusual though. Here’s the Irish American Flag, which my Mom used to hang on St. Pattys day.

[Banquet_Bear]

@Simplicio

Not unusual though. Here’s the Irish American Flag, which my Mom used to hang on St. Pattys day.

…and here’s the Maori flag:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nz_mao.html

And the Australian Aboriginal flag.

Australian Aboriginal Flag

[Contrapuntal]

A zombie post with a dead poster in it. That gave me a bit of the shivers.

[A.Gwilliam]

@Simplicio

Not unusual though. Here’s the Irish American Flag, which my Mom used to hang on St. Pattys day.

That’s one ugly flag! :eek:

What’s wrong with just using the tricolour?

(Or are there Irish Republicans over there who don’t recognise the twenty-six-county state?)