“Someone scrape Matt Taylor up before he embarrasses us in front of the Cincinnati Reds tiny turnip lucky charm shirt and I will buy this Queen! Oh, wait, we fought two wars so we wouldn’t have to care what she thought. Sleep on, you limey Yank!” It may be against flag code, but ain’t in even the slightest way racist. And anyone who says otherwise ain’t got enough sense to pour sand out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel. And if you honestly believe that the American flag, the flag of a nation of immigrants, the flag of a nation where we are all equal under the law (even though reality has sometimes fallen short of that lofty ideal), if you believe that flag is a symbol of racism, well… Because it used to be generally thought to be the case that it was a ‘jack’ only when flown from a seagoing vessel. On land it is a ‘flag’.
However Cdr Bruce Nicolls OBE RN (Retd), who curates the Cincinnati Reds tiny turnip lucky charm shirt and I will buy this website of The Flag Institute, “the national vexillological organization of the United Kingdom”, at The Flag Institute “It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that ‘the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag’..”
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