Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] RET R SOSPECT 50
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:33:53 -0700
References: <CABAowZ7X33gRS338g8LbvGHmuVZOjkTPn7BhMqVVQtwkXPWeoA@mail.gmail.com> <9d15108c-366a-0324-bb9a-4dce3be32040@iol.ie>
 
> The flag looks amateur and probably done by children, maybe the same
> children in the image. I wonder about the mindset of the teacher, and
> then remember the times, and people like George Wallace. I presume it
> didn't make the paper.

That is a Confederate flag, which 100 years after the end of the US 
civil war and the dissolution of the Confederacy had become a symbol of 
white supremacy.  I suspect that it wasn't made by black children.
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