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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  4/6/2022
  

  Scars and Stripes

  by Martha S. Jones

  "With that backstory embedded in its lyrics, Key’s anthem and the flag it sought to honor share a symbolic potency that has endured over two centuries. They both carry the power to divide and to unite us."

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• 8/6/19
  

  Please stop saying the past is in the past. It isn’t.

  by Perry Greene

  Nike dropped its Air Max USA 1 shoe after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick worried that the “Betsy Ross” flag design harkens back to an era of black slavery and has been used by white nationalist groups. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-22-17
  

  Colin Kaepernick and the Legacy of the Negro National Anthem

  by Brent Staples

  The truth is that the maxims about freedom implied in the song describe a condition the country has yet to achieve. People who confront that reality by kneeling prayerfully on the football field are often more determinedly patriotic than those who reflexively stand.