Clymer proposes putting 'symbol of racial unity' on water tower

A pair of hands — one black, one white — clasped over an American flag below the words “United We Stand.”

That’s what McCracken County Judge-Executive Craig Clymer wants to welcome people to the area with, he said during a presentation to the Paducah Water Works board via Zoom on Monday evening.

Citing division in the community, region and country, Clymer proposed putting this symbol on the water tower off the westbound portion of Interstate 24, immediately opposite Arant Confederate Park in Reidland — where a Confederate flag flies alongside the highway.

“The Sons of Confederate Veterans insist in public that the flag has no racial message. That it is not a symbol of racism; that there is no anti-black, anti-African-American intention,” Clymer said during his presentation. “Many others … see it as a symbol of the historical white oppression of their ancestors, forced into slavery, and of continuing attempts to promote white supremacy.”

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