Controversial flag

It is alarming to read a recent story about the Betsy Ross flag as the story reports the apparent illiteracy teachers happily pass on to their students.

A leaked FBI training document lists the Betsy Ross flag as a potential symbol for “…violent extremism.” The bulletin also included several other patriotic symbols from our American history. Even Joe Biden (D) has chimed in with his condemnation of the Gadsden Flag.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time the Betsy Ross flag has been controversial

Shortly before Independence Day in 2019, Nike announced its plans to release an athletic shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag. Nike spokesman Colin Kaepernick (D), a fired football player, objected, condemning the flag as a symbol of racism and slavery; social media detonated.

Consequently, Nike announced that it was halting its production of the shoe. There are literally thousands of American patriots who fly the Betsy Ross flag because they see it as our Founding Fathers did, the symbol of a “…nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Our Betsy Ross flag includes 13 alternating red and white stripes; 13 stars encircled on a blue field for each colony that declared its independence from King George III and Great Britain, “…as Free and Independent States…”. This flag is a humbling symbol of the American Revolution, and its principles (read The Declaration of Independence) we celebrate annually.

Our Declaration of Independence declares that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Tragically, these controversies encompassing the Betsy Ross flag are the bitter fruit of our government’s progressive educational agenda.

Richard Skidmore

Lancaster