The Betsy Ross flag is one of many flags made and used during the Revolutionary War. For me it has remained the one essential flag of our not-yet free nation.
Last month’s brouhaha, where a former NFL quarterback pressured Nike into dropping the flag on one of its overpriced shoes, has established the left’s desire to label anything and everything as racist.
Jonah Goldberg’s piece in the New York Post pretty much says it all:
if you search through enough old photos of Klan rallies and neo-Nazi pageants, you can spot a Betsy Ross flag from time to time.
Do you know what else you can probably spot if you look long and hard enough? Nike sneakers. Does that make Nikes symbols of white supremacy?
I myself have thought of white shoes as a symbol for my white privilege. Or something…
If the Betsy Ross flag, an instantly recognizable symbol of our liberty, is considered racist, then those who so consider it are ignorant of our history or simply hate America. Or both.
self evident truths 