If I can just add this, day to day we'll be at a hockey game and either seeing bananas thrown onto the ice or pictures of monkeys on placards. In bathrooms that you go into, you may see drawings of hooded Ku Klux Klan members.
As Farley was mentioning, it's in the eye of the beholder, of those people who have been oppressed or subjected to hate. To many, it could be a holy cross, but to many of our indigenous and African brothers and sisters, that cross represents colonialism and years of being subjected to cruel and undue treatment in terms of the realities we face.