By now everyone should have heard or
read about Nike’s recall of sneakers featuring the Betsy Ross flag on the heel.
The recall was in reaction to former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s objection to
what he said was a symbol of oppression.
Nike said in a statement that “it
pulled the shoe based on concerns that it could unintentionally offend and
detract from the nation’s patriotic holiday.”
What utter garbage. The only people
the shoe might offend are America-haters like Kaepernick. The real offense was
to the vast majority of people who love America and resent Nike’s insult to
patriots everywhere.
Actually, Nike did us all a favor by
reminding us that there are America-haters all around us: in the media, in academia,
and even in Congress. When Alexandria Ocasio Cortez spews lies about
concentration camps on our southern border filled with women forced to drink
out of toilets, she speaks for the haters. When Kamala Harris calls President
Trump a predator and John Brennan calls him a traitor, they speak for the
haters. When media talking heads ridicule and denigrate Independence Day
celebrations like the one led by President Trump, they speak for the haters.
The Betsy Ross flag speaks of
freedom and of triumph over tyranny; it speaks for the heroism of our Founders
who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the struggle
for liberty; it speaks not of oppression, but of the great nation America would
become.
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