Hate thy neighbor, especially when they hang a KKK flag next to your house

Racism Score: 5.9

Neighbors can be a gift or a curse. There are neighbors people enjoy, and neighbors people hate. When people enjoy their neighbors, they do not mind quick conversations when taking the trash out, or doing yard work, or arriving/leaving their home.

Conversely, when people cannot stand their neighbors, they are forced to peek through windows, or pretend to be on a phone call, or wait in the car until the coast is clear, all to avoid speaking to a neighbor.

The neighborly dysfunction between two Michigan homeowners took a despicable racist turn. Gross Pointe resident, Je Donna Dinges, a Black woman, informed FOX 2 News her neighbor hung a Ku Klux Klan flag in the window facing her house, directly across from her dining room, right in her line of site.

So instead of sunshine, she gets the KKK flag which is heinous and unsettling.

The hostile act prompted Dinges to call Federal and State authorities to investigate the clear act of aggression. Authorities visited the neighbor, and the neighbor advised the hanging of the flag was retribution.

What could cause a neighbor to respond with that type of hate? Security cameras. The neighbor said he was displeased with the security cameras Dinges installed on the side of her house because the camera view captured his home.  

Surely there was a better way to express the dissatisfaction with the cameras, but the neighbor went full racist. Dinges said she put up the cameras to record the activity because she found a full can of gasoline in her trash, she believes the neighbor put there.

The flag was removed after the authorities reasoned with the neighbor and the case was reviewed by prosecutors. Prosecutors declined to file charges because although the conduct was horrible, the conduct does not violate Michigan law.

They say good fences make good neighbors. In this instance, Dinges should consider a tall wall.