I am a stranger, traveling from the East-Seeking that which is lost!

Red is the color of fire.
Green is the color of unchanging immortality, of all that is divine and true.
Black from the remotest antiquity has been the symbol of grief and such is it's significance.

Am I in the ballpark yet?

So very close-the synthesis of those colors actually represents liberation and release from any kind of bondage. I see it as a reversion from the stultifying modern world to a place much mote wild, primitive, and free. Of course, I could apply the concept of being free to all sorts of things that can cause a negative impact in anyone's life, addictions and abusive relationships, depression and even boredom. Yet there is a very specific movement that crimson, black, and green became associated with about a hundred years ago. Though I doubt most people in fandom recognize those colors as being important.

You must be referring to the Pan African flag. The Eastern Star comment through me off. What fun?

Well, the founder of the Pan African movement, Marcus Garvey, really liked Ethiopia. That pentagram is their banner. My professor spoke very highly of the man and his beliefs, she even said she was going to Senegal after semester was over. I can honestly say she opened my mind to the concept of "privilege". She forced me to ask questions as to whether incoming immigrants to America can ever truly become part of an unjust society that discriminates against them. In the end, I arrived at the belief that if you don't love America, there is nothing wrong with turning tail. I wonder why Garveyism isn't that popular nowadays.

By all means if you do not love this country get out. The day of racial blackmail is over.

I have to agree with you. Of course, when it cwme to wearing the costume in college at certain events, I was always careful to know my surroundings. My alma mater was better but the events in other colleges prove that speech isn't free, it costs a fortune.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would get on someone, verbally or physically, for wearing a fursuit. I mean, all kind of deviation is allowed and socially promoted. I would not go to a honky tonk outside of Tuscon wearing one, but I would not go there dressed up like Rue Paul either. De jure can be overturned in court, de facto cannot. Besides, fursuits are so cool. Everyone dreams of being something they are not, that is why we have so much fun on Halloween.

Or Mardi Gras. Or Purim. Or any of the other holidays where dressing up is recommended the world over.

I'm just thankful my college missed the whole memo on safe spaces and microaggressions but I didn't want to be the next college student who would lose tenure for going around in blackface. That's why I pretty much wore it to conventions where I knew people could dress up as Nazis or the Devil and not be castigated for it.

Dress like the Devil ? Watch this!

https://youtu.be/CqRbp5fIgOo

Very cool.