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The Racist American Flag?

The Racist American Flag?

Liberals are using a political protest by Nike spokesman Colin Kaepernick against the original 13-star American flag to try to associate the U.S. flag with hate and racism. ...
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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“Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

That sentence written 242 years ago is causing a cultural clash that the Second Continental Congress that approved it likely could never have anticipated.

First, let’s rehearse the controversy. Here’s a summary of the events as reported by The New American’s Raven Clabough:

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