I recently watched a video of people calling the Confederate flag more offensive than communist flags and socialist flags. I understand why they said this, even though I think their world history is a bit skewed and even non-existent. But when it came down to the end of it, they deemed the American flag racist and offensive.

I call bull shit. Please quit crying you pathetic sheep, and understand the flag I proudly stand under has nothing to do with past social injustices.

Slavery happened in America. We weren't the only place that had slavery and people fail to remember that. Congratulations Canada, you came around two years after America abolished slavery and took from our social movements and added it to your own to be able to come up and say, "Oh, we never had that," even though you had slavery during your European colonization times.

Slavery has been in an issue on all levels in all continents. So for you to go ahead and say that solely the American flag once stood for slavery, I politely ask you to check your facts.

America stood up to slavery. Your problem with slavery stems out towards those who enhancement of slavery of the African American people in American prisons today. Go after the men that contribute to private prisons and then maybe you can come to talk to us about what the American flag stands for. Go after the democratic "war on crime" that is an absolute hoax and has been a hushed political agenda that dates back over a century ago.

People want to claim that the flag with the stars and bars represents terrorism in the Middle East, when that's just flat out not the case. Most people in the Middle East would prefer to stay in the Middle East because it is, after all, their home, and those that consider the flag to be offensive are those that have no understanding as to why American soldiers were there in the first place.

This isn't even the first time when people saw the American flag being raised on foreign soil as a symbol of safety, but unfortunately, it is the first time people have been calling it offensive and terroristic due to a struggle to comprehend.

When the flag was raised on the island of Iwo Jima in 1945, it gave everyone hope that peace and an end to World War II were near. Most people have a problem with America's involvement in wars on foreign soil, but the real thing people need to understand is that our world power should not go idle while disruption around the world is taking place.

When the Taliban took a stronghold in Pakistan when Al-Queda rose to power in Iraq and Afghanistan, and when Isis came to be prominent in Syria, who did the world look to immediately for assistance in this matter? Who did they want to come to save the innocent and expel toxin? Knock knock, it's Lady Liberty, and she's brought your pizza topped with freedom.

Calling for social justices to be the makeup of our country's flag is the most ridiculous thing you could ever attempt to do. The American flag stands for everything that patriotism involves. You're associating red neck behavior with patriotism and you're flat out wrong for doing so.

The stars and stripes clearly represent the 50 states in the union and the 13 original colonies. The color red represents valor and hardiness, white represents innocence and purity, and blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice. Please point to any of those symbolic pieces of the true building blocks of the American flag that offends you.

The stars and bars, and the red, white, and blue have never stood for slavery and oppression. They never stood for communism. They never stood for genocide and injustice. They fought against slavery. They fought against communism. They fought against genocide and injustice.

Every single time that flag has risen on the foreign soil where we defeated these enemies during battle, it stood for hope and peace. Now it's wrongfully being accused of being racist, oppressive, and offensive, and I've sat back and stayed silent for far too long.