East Belfast Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland has welcomed the swift removal of a flag which appeared on an East Belfast lamppost depicting the KKK.
Mr Copeland said:
“I welcome the fact that the flag has been swiftly taken down, but it should never have been put up in the first place. A defunct American racist organisation has absolutely no connection or affinity with the people of East Belfast.
Whoever put the flag up clearly has little or no understanding of his or her culture or history. This on a day when we pause to remember the sacrifice of the Ulstermen and Irishmen who died for our freedom, in the uniform of the British Army on the first day of the Battle of the Somme , 1 July 1916.”