Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem Thursday night, continuing the quarterback's preseason protest of American racial injustice and minority oppression.
New Jersey Assemblyman Ron Dancer is troubled by reports of California college students who, backed by professors, voted to remove the American flag from a campus lobby because they said it was not culturally inclusive. Dancer wants to make sure this does not happen in the Garden State without consequences.
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- When student government representatives at the University of California, Irvine voted to ban all flags - including the American one - from their tiny office, they thought they had found a solution to a battle over freedom of speech that began when someone first tacked a U.S. flag to the wall in January. The flag had been at the center of an increasingly bitter game of cat-an
Student government members attempted to ban the American flag from the University of California, Irvine, last week, only to face rebuke from their colleagues and observers.
By Jeff Deminski
Is this petty of me? I was bothered today that my bank, as I passed it along the way to drop my children off at school, had their flag at full staff like normal.
Memorial Day will be here in a couple of weeks and flags will be flying all over the place.
As you would expect.
However some will be tattered and faded from having been outside whatever the weather.
And as much as there is a sentiment among some that the flag is nothing more than a piece of cloth, think about what it represents...
Its a beautiful day...and I'm going for a walk. With camera in hand, I decided that I would snap a photo of each American flag that I see! I'm inspired...as of today, we're 30 days away from the Presidential Election!