On Friday, a South Carolina high school stopped students from bringing American flags to a football game against a heavily Hispanic rival school.

Why? Well, the principal was presumably worried that waving the flag might offend the Hispanic kids.

According to the principal, quote, this decision would be made any time that the American flag or any other symbol signed cheer or action on the part of our fans would potentially compromise the safety

of all in attendance at a school event. This isn't the first such situation. The ninth

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year. A public school in California could ban students

from wearing a shirt emblazoned with an American flag on Cinco de Mayo, thanks to fears

over racial conflict at that school.

The lawyer for the kids said, quote,

this opens the door for a school to suppress any viewpoints that are opposed by a band of vocal and violent bullies.

Meanwhile, has been, kind of never was, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick,

has been widely praised by the left media for refusing to stand for the national anthem

during football games. He said, I'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. He explained this while earning $19 million for sitting on the bench. He continued, quote, to me, this is bigger than football. It would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. Okay, folks, we're watching the end of America in real time.

That doesn't mean the country's on the verge of actual implosion, but the idea of America

required a common definition of being American, a love of country based on the basis of its founding

philosophy. That has now been undermined by the left.

Love of country doesn't mean you have to love everything about America, or that you can't

criticize America. But loving America means understanding that this country was founded on a

unique basis, a uniquely good basis. That's what the flag stands for, not ethnic superiority or

racial solidarity or police brutality,

but the basic notion of individual liberty and equal rights before God.

But with the destruction of that central principle,

the ties that bind us together to their frame, and the left loves it.

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