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NY subway tiles have a crisscross and they believe it looks like the confederate flag. The tiles are to be altered because someone thought they looked like a Confederate flag. Anything that has a crisscross will now have to be altered.
You have to admit it does resemble the confederate flag. It doesn't matter what the original intentions are any more.
My own county courthouse was built in 1911, and the tilework on the floor has an interlocking Greek key design for a border. At the corners of the border, the tile layers used a swastika to keep the interlocked design going, continuing the design as it took a 90º turn, and back then, especially out here in the west, the swastika was seen as a good luck symbol that was thought to be native American in origin.
It was used widely on apparel and on cowboy gear like spurs, bridles, blankets, etc.
My Grandmother had a swastika brooch, made of gold with red garnet insets that she was given as a graduation present in 1915.
While she never wore it after the Nazis took over in Germany, she kept it in a jewelry box all her life.
So designs do change their meanings.
The county painted in the white tiles on the swastikas with black paint to make the corners solid black looking long ago, but I can still remember them as being original in the 1950s when I was a kid; even after the war where most of our young men fought the Nazis, they recognized the courthouse tile was just a design.
But over the years, as new generations came up, things changed. The people in the county wanted them covered, so they were. Without defacing the old tilework permanently. From time to time, the maintenance crew has to apply a new coat of enamel.
You have to admit it does resemble the confederate flag. It doesn't matter what the original intentions are any more.
My own county courthouse was built in 1911, and the tilework on the floor has an interlocking Greek key design for a border. At the corners of the border, the tile layers used a swastika to keep the interlocked design going, continuing the design as it took a 90º turn, and back then, especially out here in the west, the swastika was seen as a good luck symbol that was thought to be native American in origin.
It was used widely on apparel and on cowboy gear like spurs, bridles, blankets, etc.
My Grandmother had a swastika brooch, made of gold with red garnet insets that she was given as a graduation present in 1915.
While she never wore it after the Nazis took over in Germany, she kept it in a jewelry box all her life.
So designs do change their meanings.
The county painted in the white tiles on the swastikas with black paint to make the corners solid black looking long ago, but I can still remember them as being original in the 1950s when I was a kid; even after the war where most of our young men fought the Nazis, they recognized the courthouse tile was just a design.
But over the years, as new generations came up, things changed. The people in the county wanted them covered, so they were. Without defacing the old tilework permanently. From time to time, the maintenance crew has to apply a new coat of enamel.
The original crisscross was from Scottish flag. White and blue design. Anyone flying a Scottish flag will be thought of as a racist.
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