FS1’s Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe wasn’t content with calling out Green Bay Packers fans who didn’t protest during the National Anthem at last week’s game; no, he decided to go after the nation’s flag too. According to Sharpe, the flag is a racist “piece of cloth, and nobody fights for a piece of cloth.”

“You keep telling me that the flag means so much and its opportunity and freedom and liberty,” Sharpe told his co-host, Skip Bayless. “Can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedom and liberties and opportunity?”

While Bayless continued to defend the flag and what it means to most Americans, Sharpe likened it to a pair of jeans, snidely asking, “They’ll fight for a pair of jeans?” Bayless said Americans would defend a pair of jeans if that is what was chosen to represent our nation in 1776.

Sharpe wasn’t done defaming our sacred symbol. “Okay, so the symbol of your country – so the symbol of your country is racism?”

Did you happen to notice he said “your” country … not “our” country?

What is wrong with people today? Sharpe, here, is another example of someone jumping on the bandwagon without really thinking about what they’re doing. How many times in the past has he stood with his hand over his heart, praising our great nation and its flag? The flag hasn’t changed. What it stands for hasn’t changed, so why, suddenly, is Sharpe so eager to assassinate it?

Not the Flag’s Fault

Everyone, under the constitution, has equal opportunity. The problem for many is that the equal opportunity doesn’t always mean an equal result. But is this the flag’s fault? And is that what these people actually think the flag stands for? If Sharpe, and people like him, are so eager to defame symbolic relics, will Catholics start calling the cross with Jesus crucified on it racist and refuse to kneel to it? When will this idiocy end? Stop beating down symbols and go out in the world and make a positive difference!

Since our beleaguered flag is being attacked all across the nation by the very people who should be protecting and honoring it, let’s take a look at the poem written by SMSgt. Don S. Miller, USAF (Ret.):