Posted by Dave on 07/04/06 at 08:13:52 am
Categories: Political Ravings

Howard Zinn: Put Away the Flags:

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?

These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. ...

Go read the entire thing.

****UPDATE****: More from Howard Zinn: Patriotism and the Fourth of July

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