Postcard from America
A fresh look at our Grand Old Flag
It’s a start, dear friend, but we’re going to need hands in every color and shape. We’re going to need every hand we’ve got.
Love, Erin
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It’s a start, dear friend, but we’re going to need hands in every color and shape. We’re going to need every hand we’ve got.
Love, Erin
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I still fly the American flag, I refuse to let it be a Republican flag or a right wing flag or a MAGA flag. It should be for democratic ideals and I sincerely hope a majority of us still believe in those things and can rebuild a government that lives them out. The 4th of July is all about no kings.
Happy Holiday,
Glad to see you posting again.
I grew up in Alabama, born 1954, so the "Stars and Bars" or alternatively "The Battle Flag of Northern Virginia" , the "Confederate" flag, have been regular sights throughout my life. For many the civil rights struggles of the 1960's familiarized the flag as a symbol of White Supremacy, which, even today, is a source of vigorous debate among "Southerners".
But even before finding this post in my email I was looking at an American Flag, the "Stars and Stripes", out my bedroom window, I assume displayed for Independence Day. I am still uncertain and am sure I will ponder this issue for some time now but I can't ever recall thinking that the Stars and Stripes has replaced the Stars and Bars as the primary symbol of White Supremacy in America.
I suppose time will tell.
Best,
RJ