The Schroon Lake Town Board has passed a diversity pledge, following an incident in which images of the confederate flag were inadvertently displayed on a poster honoring the 2020 Schroon Lake Senior Class.

Read all about it The Sun’s report by Tim Rowland, by clicking here.

Meanwhile, Sally Friedman, who was at the meeting, shared her views about the incident in the following letter to the Sun’s Editor.

To the editor:

I was at that “diversity meeting” in Schroon Lake and was appalled that people who profess to occupy the moral high ground excuse the display of the confederate flag as “southern pride”.

The Confederate flag was designed to be a battle flag easily distinguishable from our flag, the flag of the United States, by traitors who sought to overthrow our government in support of slavery and white supremacy.

I’m guessing that most people in the North Country who display the Confederate flag have no southern ties, that their ancestors would be horrified to see them flying the flag of those they fought against.

The Confederate flag has always been the flag of racial terrorism. It is the flag of the KKK and lynching and Jim Crow laws. It is the flag that the white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in SC flaunted in all his pictures. White people who wear and display that flag need to understand what it means to those who fear it.

Sally Friedman, Paradox, New York