She said that, at one point, she told a pool staffer, “I am going to take this racist wristband off.”

Magness complained on the county’s Facebook page. She got a response from someone with the county who at first said that in the catalog the county ordered from, the wristbands “have a generic stars and stripes pattern.” The county employee said the bands have been used for the past several years without generating any complaints.

The person who responded also said that “some of the bands and the way they were cut, can be viewed as having a similar pattern to the Confederate flag.”

Magness didn’t buy the explanation. She sent a photo back of the band stretched out, and commented that “it isn’t about how the band was cut.”

“It’s very clearly a red flag with a blue ‘X’ with stars inside,” Magness wrote. “It isn’t generic.”

The respondent agreed with her assessment after seeing the second photo and did say that the wristbands were all pulled from use Monday morning and thrown away.

Damon Sanders-Pratt, the deputy county manager of Forsyth, said Monday afternoon that a young staffer who ordered the wristbands mistakenly thought he was ordering a patriotic theme.