The Bako Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of ’Murka,
and to the Republicans
for who it stands,
one nation under Jesus,
indivisible (for now),
with Liberty
and firearms
for all.
I was reading a news report last week about a man who went into a discount store, in Dallas of all places, to purchase an American flag in preparation for the Fourth. When he got home he was surprised to discover the flag was manufactured in China.
And it had 61 stars.
He took it back to the store and the manager was a little shocked, not so much about the additional 10 states, but that he'd been selling them for weeks and this was the first time anyone had complained.
I don't know which is sadder - that we no longer even make our own flags, choosing instead to have the symbol of "liberty" and "freedom" churned out in a Chinese sweatshop for slave wages.
Or the fact that a lot of Americans don't even know what it's supposed to look like.
Or even care enough to notice.
