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January 25, 2021
At President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, five flags hung in the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol. Two of them were U.S. flags of the Betsy Ross style, with stars arranged in a circle.
When some Michigan students displayed the same flag at a high school football game in 2016, they triggered their district’s superintendent into publishing an open letter of apology. He said the flags had injected hate and hostility into a school event.
After the game, Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm wrote a “letter to the community.” In it, he said that “to some,” the historical version of the flag “symbolizes exclusion and hate, (and) injects hostility and confusion to an event where no one intended to do so.”