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To: Vermont Lt
If the American flag is blackened, how can anyone tell it is an American flag?
15 posted on 05/09/2022 9:42:53 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

It supposedly looks like this:

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/miamitimesonline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/1f/71fad0a2-46eb-11ec-a445-7f38a368217b/6193c378043d7.image.jpg

Apparently, a “no quarter” flag was originally a pirate thing, but the pirate “no quarter” flag was red, not black:

https://ecupirates.com/sports/2016/7/5/jolly-roger-no-quarter-other-ecu-traditions.aspx?id=36

https://jeanlafittetradingcompany.com/products/jean-lafitte-no-quarter-pirate-flag

Liberal sites and articles claim it goes back to the Civil War, but they have their history wrong:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/what-do-all-black-american-flags-mean/65-042fc092-d29d-4ec5-9ed1-2b0a08cc6f53

Lots of pearl clutching and claiming it’s racist (and so badly written it barely makes any sense at all):

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/opinion/the-no-quarter-flag-and-its-threat-to-america/article_0e7221c0-46eb-11ec-8195-e7b68bed1e86.html

Civil War buffs discuss here:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/raising-the-black-flag.9398/

If they are correct, Santa Ana’s “no quarter” flag at the Alamo was, in proper pirate tradition, red not black.

It sounds like some Q followers are all confused and using the flag to mean “no quarter” against liberals, apparently unaware it’s based on the Jasper Johns (gay abstract expressionist) B&W screen print of his famous flag painting. Oh well, since when did the Q crowd get anything right?


18 posted on 05/09/2022 10:30:05 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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