A video of a child pulling an American flag from a person’s front yard and throwing it on the ground has gone viral on social media.
“Children are being raised to desecrate the flag,” a Twitter user commented on the video, which has been viewed nearly 1 million times since being posted Friday.
The video has no audio and shows an unidentified young boy on a scooter with an adult woman on a bike riding down a residential street.
Children are being raised to desecrate the flag. https://t.co/RtNBo3u1st
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) July 9, 2021
The video comes amid a nationwide heated debate on the implementation of critical race theory curriculum in classrooms around the country, which some parents and lawmakers argue teaches children to “hate American exceptionalism.”