Spot the difference. One flag from I think Running with The Wolves, the other bought by my girlfriend (now wife) when I had a little soiree amateur racing in Belgium just after I finished University. (I was mediocre at best and was lucky to get a top 20, let alone have sight of the podium.).
When you spot the difference (sorry about picture quality), guess the significance of the difference!
That is pretty much it, although there is much history behind it and where the all black flag comes from and represents. But it is now associated with the right wing and independent Flanders movement. I live in a Flemish (Dutch) speaking area right next to Brussels and they are fiercely Flemish especially due to the influx of French speakers. When I do my road rides around the edges of Flanders, there appears to be a great proportion of those flags. It was great to see the Worlds this year on my doorstep, but it was full of all black flemish flags. I believe they may be propagated by the far right at races to spread their cause. Flemish politics is complicated to say the least.
“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
So, by educating you, I am helping you with your suffering. Also I am helping you suffer by having to read what I write