Flag scholar Peter Ansoff has demonstrated that it вЂњwas a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engravingвЂќ. Feminist critic Katha Pollitt captures the moment in her controversial essay вЂњPut Out No FlagsвЂќ published in The Nation a month following the attacks. (The opening of Put Out No Flags by Katha Pollitt.)ДЇollowing the shock of the 9/11 terrorist attacks the popularity of the flag surges and social pressure to display it builds. I tell her she can buy a flag with her own money and fly it out her bedroom window, because thatвЂ™s hers, but the living room is off-limits. It seems impossible to explain to a 13-year-old, for whom the war in Vietnam might as well be the War of JenkinsвЂ™s Ear, the connection between waving the flag and bombing ordinary people half a world away back to the proverbial stone age. It has to bear a wide range of meanings, from simple, dignified sorrow to the violent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry that has already resulted in murder, vandalism and arson around the country and harassment on New York City streets and campuses. In New York City, it decorates taxicabs driven by Indians and Pakistanis, the impromptu memorials of candles and flowers that have sprung up in front of every firehouse, the chi-chi art galleries and boutiques of SoHo. In a way weвЂ™re both right: The Stars and Stripes is the only available symbol right now. She tells me IвЂ™m wrongвЂ“the flag means standing together and honoring the dead and saying no to terrorism. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. (For more, see our blog posting OutkastвЂ™s Stankonia flag.) The iconic album cover consists ofВ Big Boi andВ AndrГ© 3000 posing in front of a huge, black-and-white US flag with inverted stars: the funkified flag of Stankonia (which actually was manufactured and hung on the wall in their Atlanta studios). 31 October 2000 The Stankonia flag, by Outkast.ДЄmerican hip hop duo Outkast release their fouth studio album, Stankonia.

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