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Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 2 05:58:01 2019, in response to Re: Nike pulls sneakers with 'Betsy Ross' American flag Re: This is why Trump won, posted by cortelyounext on Tue Jul 2 05:34:33 2019.

I agree that the Ross flag represents a specific period in our country's history. However, Kaepernick cogently points out that during the Continental Congress' debates on what should go into the Declaration of Independence, the opportunity existed to make the US slavery-free from her inception. The South threatened to walk, and slavery was allowed to remain.

Flags say something about the countries they represent, as you astutely noted in your example of the Nazi flag. A Stars and Stripes that stood for a slave nation from border to border (and yes, in 1776, England's flag was the ensign of an entire slave empire), is a reminder that our country was founded while continuing the bondage of people the British Empire placed in chains to begin with. Independence, history records, didn't mean freedom for all. That's the point Kaepernick is making.

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