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![[the town of south park]](../images/f/fic-spk1.gif)
image by Marc Pasquin
on the TV show "south park", the city after which the
program is named was facing a flag problem: some people
thought they should change the current flag due to some racist undertone in its design. Of
course, some people, including the KKK, contested that
the flag imagery should be kept since it is part of
their history.
Marc Pasquin, 19 February 2001
The first attempt at reconciliation was to draw a
smiley face on the hanged figure. It failed.
Marc Pasquin, 19 February 2001
![[the town of south park]](../images/f/fic-spk2.gif)
image by Marc Pasquin
The final version was adopted after a school debate
pointed that violence was indeed part of their common
history but that the flag should be more
multicultural.
Marc Pasquin, 19 February 2001
You can find the synopsis of episode 55, 'Chef Goes Nanners' here. As it is
with 'South Park', pretty little is sacred.
Ole Andersen, 19 February 2001
The poll that was taken was two in favor of the flag,
two against the flag, and the rest undecided.
This was intended to poke fun at the recent flag
debates at the time (South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi).
Zachary Harden, 19 February 2001
![[the town of south park]](../images/f/fic^sprk3.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 19 July 2009
In episode Major Boobage a different flag of South Park can be seen. Here is a screenshot.
Aleksandar Nemet, 18 July 2009
![[the town of south park]](../images/f/fic^splr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec
In the South Park movie there is a war between the U.S. and Canada, and two Canadian actors (Terrance and Phillip, the favorite stars of the kids) are captured and they are going to be executed. The kids make a kind of "underground group" named "La Resistance" to free them.
By the way, the name of one of the Canadian stars: "Terrance" sometimes appears as "Terrence" if you search it on Internet. So I am not sure which one is the correct one.
As "La Résistance" the kids use a flag very similar to the anarcho-sindicalist flags: red and black with the name of the group in white letters. The flag is divided by the diagonal line, but this diagonal is displaced from the corners of the flag.
You can see a picture of that flag here.
Francisco Gregoric, 2 January 2005
