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Je Donna Dinges called police and nothing was done; they only came after the media got involved.

Michigan Residents Protest KKK Flag Facing Black Woman's Home Newsweek 2/22/2021 Ewan Palmer © John Moore/Getty A Ku Klux Klan flies during a Klan demonstration at the state house building on July 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Members of the Grosse Pointe Park held a rally to condemn racism after a Black woman's neighbor hung a Ku Klux Klan flag. A rally has been held in the Michigan city of Grosse Pointe Park in support of a Black woman whose next door neighbor hung a Ku Klux Klan flag facing her home. The Hate has No Home Here rally was organized for Sunday, Feb...

A Black Michigan woman is speaking out after a Grosse Point man hung a KKK flag in a window that faces her home on Feb. 16. Je Donna Dinges told Fox 2 News Detroit she called state and federal authorities when she noticed her neighbor had hung a KKK flag in the window facing her home. “I said, I know there’s not a Klan sign in the window next door,” said 57-year-old Dinges, who owns a Ferndale clothing boutique. “And I opened the curtains and I looked and sure enough, there was a Klan sign in the window next door.” Dinges shared an image of the flag, which bear the words “Ku K...

Photo Courtesy of Junfu Han / Detroit Free Press A not-so-friendly neighbor placed a racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) flag in the window, and it faces a Black neighbor’s home in Michigan.  According to The Detroit Free Press, Je Donna Dinges’ ex-husband noticed the bigoted paraphernalia hanging from the Grosse Pointe Park house when he took out her trash on Feb.15.  The 57-year-old woman has lived in the home for over ten years, and a local news outlet asked about her reaction when she saw the flag. “I said, I know there’s not a klan sign in the window next door,” Dinges told FOX 2. �...

According to Detroit Free Press, the flag was later removed by the neighbor after police arrived to investigate why they displayed the racist flag.