“It stays with you.”
That is how one person described the appearance of "racist imagery" in materials distributed for a tournament hosted by the University of Maryland (UMD) Club Tennis Team last weekend.
The club team president for Howard University, one of the participating schools, described it as a recognizable symbol associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
"I don't really understand how it ended up on a tennis club document,” said Benjamin Jancewicz.
“The only way to find it is if you search for ‘racist Maryland flag.’ Then the article comes up, and the image comes up.”
Jancewicz said he was horrified when he learned the online flyer distributed for last weekend’s tennis tournament contained an image he’d created for his 2017 article on how a Confederate symbol — the red and white Crossland Banner — became, and remains, part of the Maryland flag.
“People ought to be offended as much by the illustration as they are with Confederate symbols in our flag,” Jancewicz said....
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