re: US citizens sign petition to ban American Flag

Farrakhan has part of the story right, a great deal of horrible injustice has occurred under the banner of our flag.

But Farrakhan isn't telling the whole story.

For raising their voices, for fighting with heart and soul against slavery–under that very same American flag–were the likes of William Lloyd Garrison, Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thaddeus Stephens, and thousand and thousands of less known or entirely unknown Americans, many of whom gave their lives to secure the freedom of others.

The story is more complicated, and far richer, than simplifiers such as Louis Farrakhan would have us believe.