What do you think?
Rate this book
Here's to This Flag of Mine
An examination of Black loyalty to the flag, this book looks at the views of Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson Sr., and many others. It reviews the response of the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter. The book discusses the loyalty of African Americans in the military. Other issues are discussed including police brutality, excessive prison incarceration, and voter suppression.
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2018
5 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
February 16, 2026
This author is clearly very intelligent, and the book is thoroughly researched. I enjoy reading things like this that educate me about things my public school career failed to expose me to. A good number of those types of subjects exist here, like the Talented Tenth and the reality of black explorers having reached the New World before the advent of chattel slavery.
The reason I liked it but didn’t love it is because of the way it was organized. Every chapter reads like a high school term paper, and the ideas between chapters are only loosely connected by each of the 3 main parts’ titles. Ali will bounce around to completely unrelated ideas within chapters that sometimes boost the understanding of the chapter’s main idea, and sometimes just don’t. I may need to read this again to fully grasp it. I do appreciate that this is an indy publisher and hope it circulates more; it has a lot of passionate thoughts on black history, and the author is at his best when he is laying them before the reader.
The reason I liked it but didn’t love it is because of the way it was organized. Every chapter reads like a high school term paper, and the ideas between chapters are only loosely connected by each of the 3 main parts’ titles. Ali will bounce around to completely unrelated ideas within chapters that sometimes boost the understanding of the chapter’s main idea, and sometimes just don’t. I may need to read this again to fully grasp it. I do appreciate that this is an indy publisher and hope it circulates more; it has a lot of passionate thoughts on black history, and the author is at his best when he is laying them before the reader.
Displaying 1 of 1 review