Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent
…d of the clan […] can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined in the form of the plant or animal that serves as totem.” What plants or animals did for ancient societies, flags do today. The totemic symbol of America, the American flag, represents the nation state as a sacred entity—it serves as symbolic referent point for the nation’s self-worship. From this perspective, what else is the national anthem but a hym…
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