Black Lives Matter-Utah President Lex Scott is drawing an onslaught of national rebuke for saying the American flag is a "symbol of hatred" and anyone who flies it is "a racist."
Though we stand behind the American flag, and continue to wave it -- maybe even waving it the more -- we should limit our rebuke of Scott. While she is wrong to lump us altogether, there certainly are a lot of flag-wavers who are racist.
"I want you to step outside of yourself for a minute. I want you to walk in my shoes for a second. I want you to picture this," Scott says.
"You show up for a protest and hundreds of armed white men show up. They have guns, they yell racial slurs at you, they are carrying and wearing American Flags.
"I run over 50 Facebook groups. We receive hate messages daily. When you click on the profiles of the people sending these messages their profiles are filled with American flags.
"When the Klan holds a rally, they carry American Flags.
"The white supremacist group Patriot Front also carried American Flags in their protest last week when they descended upon Philly.
"The Proud boys are always wearing and holding American flags when they protest us.
"The failed insurrectionists climbed the capitol and beat a police officer with that flag.
"If you see that every person that hates you is carrying an American flag how would you feel about that flag? If every message of hate that you receive comes from a person flying that flag, how would you feel when you see that flag."
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