The Silverado club displayed a huge Confederate flag behind its bandstand.
Evidence
Inside the windowless Silverado, initial blinding darkness gave way to a huge Confederate flag pinned up behind the bandstand, the standard collection of neon beer signs and beer mirrors, men in cowboy hats, cowboy shirts, and jeans; women in curly perms and tiered flounces of lace or denim skirts, or jeans, and belts with their names embroidered in glitter on the back. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 679
Categorization
- QUESTION: The Confederate banner amid an otherwise mundane civic scene raises the question of how symbols of exclusion sit within positive mutual-aid solidarity.