Posted on 07/03/2019 10:53:05 AM PDT by detective
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson compared the Betsy Ross American flag with the 13 stars representing the original colonies to the Nazi swastika and a burning Ku Klux Klan cross.
While discussing Nike canceling a release of shoes featuring the Ross flag after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick objected, Dyson said, “It hails from the revolutionary period of this nation’s founding which was deeply embroiled in, you know in enslavement, of the owners of slaves, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the like. But also it’s the recent use of this flag that has been the most opprobrious. Right-wing white supremacists have used it as a rallying cry for their own cause. None of these flags are set in stone. It’s the moral ecology of the time. Right now this flag has been used by people who want to pummel African-Americans, Latinos, Jews and other people, Neo-Nazis that want to claim that they have the true copyright on American identity. So why not choose a flag that is representative of everybody? The diversity of identities, ideologies, people of color and mainstream people who exist in this country? That’s the kind of blowback against the use of this particular flag.”
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I need to buy a Betsy Ross flag!!!
These people are certifiably insane.
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Just purchased one off Amazon!!
O’Bummer had 2 of them at his 2nd inauguration !!!
Ducey to pull Nike Plant over Kaepernick/Betsy Ross controversey
‘These people are certifiably insane’
just a wild guess on my part, but I’ll bet I’m not the only one who wishes our forebears could’ve picked their own damned cotton, without worrying about the damage the sun would do to their precious hides...
Good thing Nike doesn’t use slave labor to make their sneakers. That would be hypocritical. I am sure the 6 year olds get at least a couple of dollars a day.
Congratulations!!!
You are correct, sir.
These people have gone from certifiably nuts to serious danger to others.
I’m tired of blacks whining about what is offensive.
There are four degrees of stupid:
1. 1st Degree Stupid
2. 2nd Degree Stupid
3. Weapons-grade Stupid
4. Juan Williams Stupid
This guy is somewhere between 3 and 4.
And Muslim flags are all about peace and fellowship.
Free breakfast and lunch!
Georgetown University Sociology Professor.
Uggh.
Blithering imbecile.
Exactly. Why do I care? If it weren’t for taking care of their useless asses I’d have a condo on Mars by now.
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