placed the American flag too?? Is it not patriotic to question one's Government and improve our nation.
Take back the flag folks, and educate those who don't realize the activities done in our name which soils Old Glory.
This country was founded on the stolen land of indigenous peoples and the stolen labor of African slaves. The person who responded to this article with "Take Back The Flag" should know that the American flag was never ours to begin with! We are the masses of this country, completely disconnected from all true political and social processes that make the world go round. It shouldn't be this way, and furthermore, we shouldn't feel obligated to make the U.S. flag "ours". If anything, we should be anti-flag; we don't need a nation, we can govern ourselves if we all come together and break out of the capitalist superstructure. A single spark can start a prairie fire!!!
I see your point, but I have no absolutly interest in "taking back a flag" that brutality stole the rights of indigiounus people through cold blooded murder. The flag wasn't built on war, it was built on genocide. You can call it democrat for a while, you can call it republican for a while, but it has been the economic interests in this society since the day it was founded, wealth governs this country and always has, wealth governs this government and always has. And the people never controled this governments. Never. america has always been a plutocracy since the very day it was founded. It's never been a democracy. Never. It was founded on the interests of the RICH WHITE MALE. The have-nots who built their society on the backs of blacks. We've been servants since the day this society founded it's interests on this contintent, and we've been continuesly building their shit up. And now it's expanded globaly. It doesn't keep it's interests kept within it's own borders and economic bounderies, but it enforces it's interests upon the rest of the world through military violence..... This country has killed more people than all wars put together. And I mean this since the VERY DAY this country was established. Since the very day that flag was hung was the very last thing natives saw before they were killed. I have no interest in "taking back this flag". It never belonged to us, it never blonged to my ancestry. Never. And I don't want it to belong to me. Red is for the blood on it's hands, blue is for the male, and white, heh, we all know what that means. It's like asking jews to take back the nazi flag. They rather burn it. The "big freedom, and democracy" is symbolized through a flag, a flag with the blood stains of non-whites who've been opressed by it since day one, and we all know the colors of that flag, Red, White and Bullshit. Burn it.