Betsy Ross never had slaves

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Related: Arizona Gov. Ducey to Pull Nike Financial Incentives After NIke Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker Because Colin Kaepernick Didn’t Like It

The soles of wack folks: Nike scrapping a Betsy Ross flag-inspired shoe is a cowardly cave to Colin Kaepernick

By Daily News Editorial Board | New York Daily News | NY Times, July 3,2019:

With Nike recalling a limited edition Fourth of July sneaker — due to complaints by their million-dollar pitchman Colin Kaepernick — the shoe-maker has put its foot into it, buying a phony charge about American history.

The Air Max 1 USA heel was to feature the Betsy Ross flag — a banner of 13 red and white stripes with 13 white stars in a blue circle — created, goes the legend, during the American Revolution by Betsy’s needle in 1776. Kaepernick doesn’t like it because slavery existed back then.

But no one has ever linked Mrs. Ross or her flag to slavery. We are unaware of any evidence she employed slaves in her Philadelphia home or at her upholstery shop.

Kaepernick has a right to kneel in protest during the national anthem, for good or for ill. And Nike, as a private company, can do as it pleases. But why?

If, as some claim, the Betsy Ross banner has been appropriated by white supremacists, the Nike shoe could have been a fine way to yank back its appropriation. Also, the Betsy Ross flag-creation story, perhaps apocryphal, nonetheless places a woman at the heart of America’s Founding — important itself.

Instead, Nike misses an opportunity by allowing itself to be tread on by Kaepernick’s fears.

 

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Bonnie Pupowner
Bonnie Pupowner
4 years ago

a lot of Northerners didn’t and if they did, most treated them very well

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago

The West of the Mississippi didnt.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

1. Muslims and Africans and a few other groups still practice slavery. No one boycotts them.

2. Whites practiced slavery the least of all groups, meaning whites had the fewest people in the world that owned slaves and practiced it the shortest amount of time. Every other nation is guilty. More guilty than whites. Whites were the first to end slavery.
3. These Psychological Warfare agendas are blatantly obvious. At some point someone is going to need to point out how abusive they are and outlaw them altogether before ignorant people actually believe we’re “worth annihilating” and take action.

Dean
Dean
4 years ago

The slavery issue doesn’t matter and is just as media rationalization expressed as justification. They are triggered by any American flag. Multiculturalism-Diversity-Social Justice has done its job and turned a significant portion of American citizens against their own country while they enjoy the benefits of its achievements. Obama flew the same flag behind him at one of his inaugural events. The Trump derangement syndrome is real and it has exposed this element of the left, and they are now incapable of hiding it.

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago
Reply to  Dean

No one can accuse them of “duel loyalty”, they have only 1 loyalty; Ism or themselves. A country unto themselves—5 column.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Myself, I am not concerned about the rabble attempting to annihilate whites. I am far more concerned as a Christian that the reaction to the attack will be extreme. The Nazis killed 10 million with early 20th Century technology. It took them just 3 years. Today, the same could easily be accomplished in a few months or less. This reaction is far more likely to occur than the rabble annihilating the white population Its called the Hegelian dialectic and established in both science and historical human behavior. It will be triggered once sufficient whites believe they, their families, their existence is in jeopardy. It won’t be nice, so I suggest we just all attempt to get along.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

That depends on them. So far they are the only ones needs this type of advice.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
4 years ago

Kaepernick’s Muslim girlfriend is calling the shots at Nike, blocking release of an already-produced American flag sneaker, just days before July 4th. .

Why do Muslims not speak out against Muslims owning slaves ?

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Mslm women are ruled over by their men.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

This is going to cost Nike a lot of f goodwill as well as money. Obviously, management is incompetent putting the company at risk to satisfy some obscure, not understood, fringe ideology.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

BOYCOTT NIKE!????????

dhd123
dhd123
4 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

She must be one of those new fad Muslimas, she drinks alcohol

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  dhd123

In Indonesia a muslum woman was flogged for daring to drink A beer in public (as in one beer).

2 parrots and a dog
2 parrots and a dog
4 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

Because they want slaves.

Fred
Fred
4 years ago

Kap will eventually be shot by one of his own. That’s what his kind do to one another – then blame whitey. What a savage!

dennodog
dennodog
4 years ago
Reply to  Fred

“One of his own” could be a white guy too. After his natural parents abandonment, mixed race status, and being raised by a caring white family, he turns his resentment towards the ones that nurtured him, exactly like obama did.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  dennodog

Obama’s white mother and grandparents were unabashed,card carrying Communists.

Fred
Fred
4 years ago
Reply to  dennodog

The chances of that happening are slim. Not impossible, but slim.

No one wants to talk about black on black crime, it’s just easier to blame President Trump, whitey, conservatives, and people who are anti illegal immigration.

dennodog
dennodog
4 years ago
Reply to  Fred

I know…lol….just a little needle…….Years ago my inlaws adopted a “child of color”. The unmarried father had been sent to prison for manslaughter and the mother, a junkie, just left her 3 month old baby with them to babysit for the night. She never came back for the kid. “Mom” was around town, but just abandoned her own baby. Fast forward…they adopt her and raise her as their own. She was fine until she hit high school and started hanging with “her own people”. How quickly her mind was poisoned against “whitey”. She unfortunately ended up living with some pimp, ( she was no longer a minor) out of state, had 4 kids and 4 baby daddies, and is a career welfare “mommy”. Whatever the cause of her resentment towards everyone is still unknown, but it’s akin to hatred. Can never figure out why some kids “turn” so nastily on those who took them in and tried to raise them nicely and keep them comfortable.

Lynn D
Lynn D
4 years ago

Oh well, if a company is going to pander to the ‘sensitivities’ of a spoiled Brat who throws tantrums over nothing, perhaps they deserve to go out of business…There are other sport shoe makers than Nike, and wouldn’t it be hilarious if THEY (the others) produce a shoe with the Betsy Ross flag on it..Sales would possibly go through the roof, while Nike CEO’s are ducking for cover.. Please let this happen.

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

Nike made big money off of Kaep. & might again off the “rebels without a clue” crowd.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
4 years ago
Reply to  Lynn D

Please, please, please.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

This muslum chump whines about slavery that ended over a hundred years ago but has nothing to say about the fact muslums are enslaving people allah over Africa right NOW.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

Ain’t stories like his wonderful? Thank you Betsy Ross. Spontaneous ideas of Americanism shot down by an ungratefool waycist Negro.

Is this the new way of America? Being fraiddy of Negroes? Who don’t build or invent anything and rely on white men to feed and clothe them who we FREED with sacred blood and treasure to be thrown away by a stupid fatherless Negro?

We kowtowed to a sodomite one and he very much showed for 8 years his resentment that we FREEDY* the Negro.

*Freedy – “freed” and we now “feed” the Negro – exclusive Negro term.

ed
ed
4 years ago

Anti-American Kneeler Kaepernick says “jump”, and Nike says…”how high” ??

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

Of course Google nor Wiki will tell us who/where Kaepernick came from. He was adopted by Lutheran parents named Kaepernick.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

BOYCOTT NIKE!????????

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago

Most African slaves were Handed over by fellow Africans. The white boys (before rifles) didnt invade Africa, conquer & kidnap African young people & marched them Miles to the coast & ships. Only large fellow African men could have done that.

Dalit
Dalit
4 years ago

Oregon Mayor is also Police Commish. He controls the city, the cops & Antifa!

AZ gal
AZ gal
4 years ago

Yes, f**k em all! And Happy 4th of July to you, too!

Donna Garland
Donna Garland
4 years ago

I visited the Betsy Ross Museum on my visit to that beautiful country and the patriotism made me proud that my country is a friend of the United States. I learned a lot about this woman and the pride she sewed with every stitch and what our flags signifies.
You cannot change history. Yes, you’re ancestors had slaves as did my countrymen but that was then, we now know better and we can only learn from our mistakes. The problem with the left is…they haven’t learned a damn thing. They are still as uneducated and irrational as they once were and they say we are the extremists. We are not the ones inciting hatred!
Nike need to feel the pinch in their pocket and for deciding to boycott an historically important human being that was respected and remembered for her input into American history, they need to be called out for what they are….bigoted cowards!
Boycott NIKE and Boycott Colin Kaepernick!

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago
Reply to  Donna Garland

The bigger picture is that without that period of slavery then there would be no or next to no blacks in the USA which means no great institutions like Motown or Stax etc.
Gotta love Motown!
Calling out around the world are you ready for a brand new beat’ cos summers here and the time is right for fighting in the street …….. …….

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Clever twist of the “dancing in the streets” to “fighting”. I like it. However, whatever you do, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago

Hey old mate! Great to hear from you and happy 4th of July.
Wish I was in the good old USA to celebrate with ya.
Oh say can you see ….. ……
I’ll be raising a pint later as has always been my custom on this fine day and saluting my good friends from afar. ????????????????????

Ps I ain’t much of a dancer so fighting in the street is apt for this hooligan ????

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago

The white middle class lefty’s hate themselves and resent their own history. This is the result of being spoiled as a child so expect absolutely No sense from spoilt children.
The black lefty’s walk around with a chip on their shoulder because they can’t see the bigger picture and view everything through the eyes of an enraged victim so you can’t expect any sense from these fools either.
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!????????

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Independence Day, over here. Hopefully, it’s Independence Day, for Tommy, over there.

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

Well, you didn’t think it was just the Confederate flag they hated, did you?

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

Crack Head Kapernack isn’t good enough to wash Tom Bradys laundry

Fred
Fred
4 years ago

If someone shot Kap right in front of me I’d do my Joe Paterno impression and look the other way.

Ed Love
Ed Love
4 years ago

Nike should be ashamed to let themselves be lead around by the nose by an ignorant, has-been (never-was) (now nothing) football player. His stupidity knows no bounds and Nike is following his lead. Idiot CEO.

Bill
Bill
4 years ago

Just bought 4 Betsy Ross flags yesterday, one is on the home flag pole now

D A
D A
4 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Excellent ! How did you get them so quick ?

Bill
Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  D A

On the strip in Gatlinburg

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

Kaepernick’s maxim is ‘ignorance is bliss.’ He isn’t alone bathing in the swill, the fake-news pumped-out by the MSM, and those of the so-called educators’ brigade. Not to dismiss the Party of Slavery, the Democrats whose historic culpability of slavery continues to this day. The Democrats enslaved minority voters thereafter and bolster the pedophilia, FGM, misogynism, and slavery within the tenets of the Qu’ran. The IQ of Liberalism has met an all-time low, that of a cabbage.

Mike Pope
Mike Pope
4 years ago

Copperdick sucked as a Football player & needs to STFU & just go away

notme123
notme123
4 years ago

But Kamala Harris’ ancestors did.

Dennis
Dennis
4 years ago

I certainly agree that all people “are born equally.” The
concept and conduct of slavery has been a heinous characteristic of human kind
for eons. I find those who in any manner support slavery or racism that results
in belittling others to be reprehensible, but today I find the claim of those
who use the claim of past slavery to justify their frustration to be inane. The recent
negative connotation about the Betsy Ross flag as being related to slavery
comes to mind. Though when that flag was created, there was slavery within the
U.S., it was created to establish a flag symbol that represented those who were
opposing British rule here in the new world, and had nothing to do with any
claim that it had a racist or pro-slavery connotation. To suggest otherwise is
to support stupidity.
As stated above, slavery was practiced for eons, before emancipation
took place, and I suspect that it is still practiced in some areas on this
planet. I find it interesting that everyone seems to forget that the Jewish
tribes of over 4000 years ago were subject to slavery by the Egyptian Pharoses,
and they were purportedly emancipated by Moses and Devine intervention, and the
world of Judaism got over it, becoming industrious and productive as a people. Yet,
the Jews have been the subject of severe violence over their history as we all
know. Nevertheless, they have persevered. All those others should have used
what Mother Nature has given to people to likewise persevere and not let the
concept of historical slavery impact negatively on their person, as has seemed
to be the case with the Ross flag and failing to stand with respect as our
national anthem played.
The human species was gifted with a superior brain over all
other species on this planet. That brain has built into it the character of seeking
to improve, being industrious, being competitive, being pushed to perform for
the family, all characteristics that every human has. I think it time that
everyone stop raising the specter of racism or past history of slavery as a
crutch, and begin using the gifts that the human has built into its character,
as expressed above, and stop this nonsenses about racism and past slavery
holding them back, as that is clearly a false barrier.

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4 years ago

Nike had this planned out for months,…. bad publicity for a bad company, is a WIN WIN !!
Democrat Governors tripping over one another inviting Nike to build HQ and Offices within their States.
Problem is, Nike hates high taxes more than America


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0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago

Why is nike listening to the no talent, out of work kaeperdick?

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Mohammad Izzaterd
Mohammad Izzaterd
4 years ago

So, all symbols of the American Revolution are now racist. Exactly when, i.e,, what year can any created symbols be considered non racist? Last week? last year?

Maranatha
Maranatha
4 years ago

These liberal bstrds don’t know that on Obomit’s inauguration day this flag was flying high all over..

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