Betsy Ross Was A Racist
Adolph Nike The Great Historian Says So
By de Andréa
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
Posted July 10, 2019
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Almost everyone knows the story of Betsy Ross and her stars and stripes design that eventually became what is now known as the American Flag. However, there were other flags before what we sometimes call “Old Glory”? Historians are not in agreement as to the truth behind the legends, as the hard evidence has been lost in the mist of time. But do the details of this historical event really matter? If you want to split hairs, George Washington actually designed the ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ from an earlier flag. George simply replaced the Union Jack from The Grand Union flag, with thirteen stars. Betsy’s expert contribution was a five pointed star instead of Washington’s 6 pointed star. Betsy’s company of course, manufactured the flag,
Early History
Elizabeth Grissom, was born in the colony of
Pennsylvania in 1736, she died a little more than one hundred before I was born,
and yes I am that old. She was one of 16 brothers and sisters. As a child, her
household chores involved sewing her brothers’ and sisters’ clothes. Betsy, as
her parents called her, went to school at a time when few girls received an
education, and, at 12 years old, she took a job sewing tablecloths, curtains,
and bedspreads by hand.
This is where she met a young man named John Ross. The two eventually got
married and opened a sewing shop of their own, living a peaceful life until the
13 colonies rebelled against the Crown of England. John Ross was an early casualty of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps because of her grief over her husband’s passing (who was taken prisoner and sent to an English jail), or perhaps due to a diligent sense of duty, Betsy continued working in the shop the two started together. By 1777, Betsy had married her second husband and created history.
As the war continued in early 1776, Ross contributed to the Revolutionary War effort by making uniforms and naval flags for the Continental Navy and Army, allegedly even making a uniform for George Washington. Throughout the Revolution, Betsy Ross continued her upholstery business, repairing uniforms and making tents and blankets to aid in the war effort, in addition to making stuffed paper tube cartridges with musket balls for Washington’s army.
Several other flags were flown by the American rebels 1n the 17 hundreds.
Here are two of them.
The Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union flag was the first of the true American flags. Previously used as a navel flag, George Washington liked the design so much that he chose it to be flown to celebrate the formation of the Continental Army on New Year’s Day, 1776. On that day, the Grand Union flag was raised on Prospect Hill in Somerville, near Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is not known who actually designed The Grand Union Flag, it could have been Betsy Ross as she made flags for the navy and army, and was flown on early navy vessels. It was made however by sewing a small British Union Jack to the corner of a piece of red cloth and adding six white stripes to the red cloth. This made the thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies/states.
But for a new nation, a new design was eventually needed to replace the British Union Jack.
The Legend
According to Betsy’s grandson, George Washington visited Betsy Ross’s shop
in the spring of 1776. Washington was in Philadelphia in late spring of that
year, serving in a committee with John Ross’s uncle, George Read. Congress had
approved $50,000 for the acquisition of tents and “sundry articles” to support
the Continental Army.Washington asked Betsy to make a new flag, which would eventually become the official flag of the United States of America. According to records, by May 29th of the following year, Betsy Ross had already been paid a large sum for making flags for the Pennsylvania State Navy Board.
The New Design
According to many sources, Washington had a specific idea of what the flag
would look like, and gave Betsy a drawing of the image he wanted to use.
Originally, General Washington wanted thirteen ‘six’-pointed stars to replace
the Union Jack, but Ross suggested changing the six-pointed stars to ‘five’
points, in order to complete the flag all the more quickly. George Washington
agreed and, thus, five-pointed stars became not only the symbol of America As an experienced designer, Betsy Ross knew that by simple folding the cloth in a certain way, with one snip of the scissors, five-pointed stars could be easily cut out from fabric and sewn on quickly.
Francis Hopkinson
Many believe that Francis Hopkinson created the first American flag.
Margaret Manny is also said to have made the first flag with the Continental
Colors motif or the Grand Union flag.According to Willian J. Canby, Betsy’s grandson, who gave the first account of her story nearly a century after the events took place, other flag makers working in Philadelphia could have all been making different variations of the same flag.
Final Thought
Even though no one has found definitive proof that Betsy Ross is the
American flag’s creator, the story is compelling.From the Star-Spangled Banner all the way to the Yellow Star on the Chinese Communist flag, all have the legendary Betsy Ross and her American ingenuity to thank for their five-pointed national star symbols.
While the facts can only be proven by hard evidence, the flag from the Revolutionary seamstress from Pennsylvania remains the most accepted version of the creator of Old Glory.
So what happened
between then and now?
Another
revolution. It’s - The Brainwashed
Indoctrinated Robotically Programmed Stuck on Stupid Uneducated Hate America Anti-Constitutional
Anti Republic - Revolution. It’s a catchy name
isn’t it? That’s in order to separate it from the real American Revolution…
Instead of taking a little more than a
year as the first American Revolution did, this current one has been brewing
for a little more than one hundred years, but it nevertheless ‘is here’ my
friend.
Nike, one of the Brainwashed Indoctrinated Robotically Programmed
Stuck on Stupid Uneducated Hate America Corporations, managed to do something that all the neo-Nazis, Democrat
Communists, Klansmen, and other denizens of the lowest form of our now
perverted political system could never do: It
turned ‘Betsy – Ross’
and our national flag, into a racist symbol.
Nike was
all set to release a line of sneakers for the Fourth of July featuring the
original Betsy Ross American flag with 13 stars in a circle that I fly every
Independence Day off my front stoop. Even though this is truly one of the most
famous of all the American flags, I still get the occasional…What flag is that?
This goes
to support my stand that real history is no longer taught in government
controlled public schools. Just as in the old Soviet Union, history is now a
work of fiction. Or’…”nothing at all happened before 1954”.
According
to reports, Marxists Colin Kaepernick took offense because a handful of
extremist groups like to brandish the original American flag to make some sort
of point about something no one should even care about. I can only guess that
it has something to do with how this was “their” country before it was ours. Or maybe, like
many retarded anti-Americans, they just like the sparkly stars and bright
colors.
The
thing is, most Americans — and when I say most, I mean, like, nearly all of
them — had no idea that so-called white supremacists like Nancy Pelosi were
doing this. I understand she is coming out with a hat that says “Make America
White Again”. Well…anyway…that’s what I heard.
Even though in countless news stories, reporters
contacted experts who either didn’t know that Betsy Ross was a racists or were
only vaguely aware that the Betsy Ross flag is part of the white supremacist gear
in addition to their black masks. These groups apparently like to wear the flag
as hero capes during
THE BOTTOM LINE: I
think Nike should have released this shoe design instead…
Thanks for listening my friend. Now
go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.
-
de Andréa
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