What Kaepernick, and Nike, seems to not know about the Betsy Ross flag needs to be pointed out. Betsy Ross was a Quaker, so she didn't own slaves. She married a man her family disapproved of, so they disowned her. She learned a trade - upholstery. She and her husband opened a store. Then war broke out and her husband left to fight for the colonies, and died in battle. She kept the store running by making regimental flags for the war effort. She married again, this time to a man who was fighting the British by sea, and he also died. She kept sewing and running the store. Her home was taken over by the British when they occupied Philadelphia.
So Betsy Ross was clearly a patriot. She lost 2 husbands to the war, and at that time in history, she learned a trade and was able to take care of herself and her children as a widow. The flag that Kaepernick and Nike have a problem with, and Nike refuses to display on their sneakers, represents the birth of our country and in the case of Ross, perhaps early feminism. It has nothing to do with slavery.
