Since the massacre of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., the nation has busied itself with bringing down the Confederate flag. On June 27, activist Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole at South Carolina's capitol and removed the Stars and Bars herself.
The Bay Area has seen its own flagpole protests. In December, a #BlackLivesMatter demonstrator climbed the Oakland Police Department's flagpole, removed the American flag, and replaced it with one featuring portraits of African-Americans killed by police. During Saturday's Pride celebrations in San Francisco, a protester climbed the flagpole at Harvey Milk Plaza to fly a yellow-and-black flag reading "QTIPOC Liberation & Resistance" in an effort to "reclaim Pride" to its radical roots. (QTIPOC is an acronym for Queer Transgender Intersex People of Color.)
With so much attention on flags, it's appropriate that Oakland design journalist Roman Mars has launched a campaign (sponsored by Autodesk) to redesign SF's city flag, which resembles a Boy Scouts merit badge for birding. Mars told Wired the new flag should embody SF's values of "inclusiveness and change."
But why bother designing a new flag when we already have Airbnb's "Bélo," the faintly vaginal logo the company rolled out last summer? Inclusiveness of tourists in residential units, changing local zoning laws, plus corporate sponsorship? It's a San Francisco trifecta.
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