Philly’s Pride Flag to Get Two New Stripes: Black and Brown

Philadelphia (magazine) ^ | June 8, 2017 | Ernest Owens

[ConservativeStatement]

Multiple sources closely connected with Thursday’s First Annual Pride Kick-Off at City Hall have confirmed to G Philly that the city’s Pride flag will add black and brown stripes below the traditional six-color rainbow layout. The new permanent design will be, from top to bottom: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

“The black and brown stripes are an inclusionary way to highlight black and brown LGBTQIA members within our community,” said one source involved with the flag-raising event who asked not to be named. “With all of the black and brown activism that’s worked to address racism in the Gayborhood over the past year, I think the new flag is a great step for the city to show the world that they’re working toward fully supporting all members of our community.”

[ConservativeStatement]

This reminds me of the colors associated with betting on thoroughbred horses. 1 red, 2 white, 3 blue, 4 yellow, etc.

[Claud]

Brown sounds about right!

[treetopsandroofs]

Great, now add "R" for Racists:

LGBTQIAR

[Flick Lives]

What about magenta, fuchsia, turquoise. And how about colors from the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum? Limiting colors to those seen by humans is a micro-agression.

[relictele]

Let’s have a black-and-white striped flag to represent a) prisoners and b) the wildly disproportionate black-on-white crime figures.

[Meadow Muffin]

We could put a dab of every color known to man into a tub, throw in a dirty towel and mix it up....my guess is that it will come out the color baby crap brown, just like their politics.

[lacrew]

Yuck.

[ZOOKER]

...from top to bottom: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Everything BUT white.

I'm offended. NOT

[I want the USA back]

There is no White stripe. Since everything is significant with these people, it’s obvious that the omission was deliberate.
I have been crowing that they want to eliminate Whitey, after taking all his money.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The colors of poop & death - how appropriate!

[DungeonMaster]

It is a victory for the gays if they can convince blacks that they are the same kind of minority.

[xp38]

By adding those stripes it is no longer a rainbow which is a good development from my point of view.

[Blue Jays]

Lazy and low-energy leftwingers wouldn't know what to do with themselves if motivated and can-do white people suddenly ceased to exist.

[Huaynero]

“There is no White stripe.”

Yeah, wheah da white stripe at?

[thepatriot1]

Can’t they just change it to NS for ‘Not Straight’? For Crissakes already!!

[BlueLancer]

I think they need a nice mauve ... maybe with an hint of lilac or peach.

[Dr. Sivana]

In the past, the black and mixed-race people I have known who weren’t part of academia always resented any attempt to group race with sexual deviancy. Whether they were for affirmative action/liberal or were more conservative/libertarian, they thought that at best these folks (who never had problems getting remuneration or seats at restaurants) were free riders, but for the most part were a degrading group with which to be associated.

[Dr. Sivana]

Can’t they just change it to NS for ‘Not Straight’? For Crissakes already!!

Shorter still..."D" for DEVIANT or "P" for PERVERT.

[VanDeKoik]

These people have become a farce of a parody.

[MortMan]

Multiple sources closely connected with Thursday’s First Annual Pride Kick-Off at City Hall have confirmed to G Philly that the city’s Pride flag will add black and brown stripes below the traditional six-color rainbow layout. The new permanent design will be, from top to bottom: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

"...add black and brown stripes below..." versus "...top to bottom: black, brown, red, orange..."

You'd think a professional writer would be able to write in a professional manner.