It’s not to the state. It’s to the flag. Big difference.
To the flag… of the state
Pledging allegiance to the physical representation of the state and pledging alliegence to the state are one in the same
Respectfully disagree. Flag represents the values of the nation and the American people. “The republic for which it stands.”
The republic is the state m8, republic =/= values of the nation
Is it? Based on what? We’re assuming here the state = the republic. But I don’t think that has to be true. I think the republic can refer to the nation and subsequently the values/cultural/whatever that are encompassed in that nation.
Honestly you can keep trying but you’re just wrong
Why else would people lose their shit when people don’t stand for the national anthem or say the pledge of allegiance. Why would they call them unamerican and traitors?
The pledge of allegiance is a tool to try and bake blind obedience into children. It isn’t at all what the founding fathers wanted for the flag.
The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.
I had no idea who he was, thank you.
This is one example of the Mandela Effect phenomena, where an iconic moment is reenacted with a hippy woman so many times that people think that’s the story and thus another gay man is written out of history. Thanks for the photo.
I had no idea. Wow.
This photo was taken by Bernie Boston, a black/native man who willingly stood up to a chapter of the KKK and earned their respect among other things
I get the subject is important, but please dont erase Bernie. I knew him personally and he deserves to be remembered and by only remembering the subject, a white man, you erase a black man.
@vaspider could you reblog this version too, please? I am deeply upset by Bernie’s erasure from his own work.
Reblogging for credit to the photographer, and so I can look up his work on desktop later.