Kelly O’Hara, the USA women’s soccer team player that picked up the dropped flag.
I have to say, you can still love your country and its flag even though your country’s ideals have been challenged by ignorant or repugnant elected officials. I don’t equate the flag with ignorance or repugnance. The flag represents an ideal Democracy. Democracy may expose its weaknesses when public figures lose sight of those ideals, but it retains its strength through the activism of those who maintain its true strength. Pride in an ideal trumps the distaste for our failures.
By the way, bending a knee during a sports event national anthem is not the same as dropping the flag. The former calls attention to a failure of our ideals and demands we do something about that failure, while reckless dropping of the flag expresses a vanity and in fact the same attitude that leads to our failures—as in, “dropping the ball”!
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