Did you ever think that in your lifetime you’d be told that the Betsy Ross American flag of the thirteen original colonies would be comparable to a swastika? Well, congratulations as according to race hustling MSNBC and Michael Eric Dyson, that’s what the Betsy Ross flag is the equivalent of now. How long until the current American flag is the new swastika?
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According to New York Times opinion contributor Michael Eric Dyson, the Revolutionary War-era flag at the heart of a controversy with Nike is just like a “swastika” or burning a cross. MSNBC featured Dyson the day before the Fourth of July to slime the Betsy Ross flag as a symbol of hate.
Talking to host Hallie Jackson, Dyson excoriated the flag and offered outrageous comparisons: “Symbols matter too. Why don’t we wear a swastika for July Fourth?… It makes a difference. The cross burning on somebody’s lawn. Why don’t we have a Nike, you know, celebration of the cross?”
Justifying Nike’s move to not sell the shoes, Dyson (who used to guest host on MSNBC) insisted, “It’s amazing to me the people that people that cry the loudest about PC are the ones who didn’t show up when the offense first occurred, who didn’t defend the people who were victims of white supremacy or racism or sexism or misogyny.”
In a story airing just before Dyson’s appearance, reporter Stephanie Gosk referred to the “so-called Betsy Ross flag.” She noted that the flag “has been flown at some nationalists and American Nazi rallies. Some say it celebrates the time of slavery.” She noted that Ted Cruz is “renewing calls for a Nike boycott.”