[Ammi]

The flag was designed two years ago by schoolgirl Gracie Sheppard, now aged 14, who attends Redhill Secondary School in Stourbridge, in a competition by the Black Country Living Museum. The chains represent its chainmaking and industrial heritage while the red, and black colours on the flag are a reference to the description of the Black Country by Elihu Burritt, who said it was ‘black by day and red by night’. The white cone shape represents the area’s glassmaking industry.


....hmmm, I agree with Dezzy, this is a recently designed flag and with no representation of slavery in it, it was designed by a 14yr old child...it's a difficult one though I think because I also don't think that it's PC gone mad either, in fact I hate that expression because it's just used so often to dismiss so much as nothing, when in fact it isn't always nothing at all...I can understand why he's sensitive to it, although I think in this case it's misplaced, but I do still see his sensitivity ...I think that you only have to watch things like the KKK documentary last night to see how much black oppression and prejudice are still very much alive and kicking and totally not a thing of 'history' at all...