07-02-2019, 11:27 AM
(07-02-2019, 10:57 AM)GMDino Wrote: It's not the American flag (one of at least) from the slave-era?
More to the point it wasn't just Kaepernick raising concerns, per the article:
Unfortunately times change and many of the older symbols take on new meaning thanks to our distance from them and how new groups identify with them.
It's a shame really.
Maybe we should be more upset with the less-than-seemly groups that appropriate these symbols to represent them. But that's just my thoughts on it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
