The American Flag Belongs to Me, Too, and This Year I'm Taking It Back

[SharonClark]

I couldn't agree more with this article, I hope most of you can click on the link to read the entire piece.

NASHVILLE — We bought our house from a military veteran who hauled his flag out on every officially patriotic occasion. It hung from a flag mount embedded in the bark of a maple tree, and during our first years in the house we followed suit, at least on the Fourth of July.
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Traditionally, white Southerners aren’t big on the flag. The Fall of Vicksburg took place on July 4, 1863. A Civil War battle lost by the Confederacy on the anniversary of the founding of the Union meant that many Southerners considered the Fourth of July a Yankee holiday. For decades.

Today the American flag has been co-opted by the very cohort who rejected it so roundly during my childhood. Driving through rural Tennessee last week, I saw an American flag hanging from the bucket of a cherry picker parked on the side of the road. The flag waved above a tent offering fireworks for sale. The flag was even bigger than the tent.

Take a drive through any red state, and you will see American flags flying above truck stops, dangling from construction cranes, stretched across the back windshields of cars, emblazoned on clothing and, of course, waving from front porches — and not just on the Fourth of July. “The sheer volume of American flag paraphernalia that white people seem to own boggles my mind,” tweeted the Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom last month. “I assume it just sort of flows to them & they aren’t buying all of it? I’m not sure.”

I’m pretty sure white people are buying this stuff.
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So this Fourth of July weekend, my husband and I have hung up an American flag again for the first time in years. It’s right next to the front door, and it does not symbolize MAGA lies or MAGA tyranny. We are flying it proudly in honor of our fellow Americans who are fighting for justice of every kind.

But to be very clear about which America we believe in, we have hung a different flag on the other side of the front door, too. When the wind blows the American flag at our house, a rainbow flag will be billowing beside it.

Source: [link:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/opinion/american-flag-liberals.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20220703&instance_id=65713&nl=the-morning&regi_id=66602566&segment_id=97522&te=1&user_id=e807f22faace3e1eaaed35ce67f15ca1|

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...nt

[EmmaLee E]

2. I'm taking a Knee

[wnylib]

3. Agree. At first I felt like skipping the holiday.

But then I thought, "No!"

This is MY country, too. It is MY flag, too. Why cede it to the fascists without a fight?

[Mister Ed]

4. That's me as well.

That flag belongs to us, and not to the Deplorables. I'll fly it again this Fourth.

I'll also wear black wherever I go on the 4th, to show my resistance to the threats we face.

[Baked Potato]

5. YES!

[mitch96]

6. For my money this is the only true American "rebel" flag... the other is for traitorous losers...m