Why on earth are we demonizing the Betsy Ross Flag?

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165. The Betsy Ross flag was created in 1777 during the American Revolution.

Therefore slavery was legal before the revolution in the British ruled colonies. It would make more sense to boycott the British Union Jack for the fact slavery existed at the time of our revolution.

Slavery in the United States
A brief history

When Europeans first colonized the North American continent, the land was vast, the work was harsh, and there was a severe shortage of labor. White bond servants, paying their passage across the ocean from Europe through indentured labor, eased but did not solve the problem. Tensions between settlers and former indentured servants increased the pressure to find a new labor source. Early in the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship loaded with African slaves introduced a solution—and yet paradoxically a new problem—to the New World. Slaves proved to be economical on large farms where labor-intensive cash crops, such as tobacco, sugar and rice, could be grown.

By the end of the American Revolution, slavery became largely unprofitable in the North and was slowly dying out. Even in the South the institution was becoming less useful to farmers as tobacco prices fluctuated and began to drop. Due to the decline of the tobacco market in the 1760s and 1770s many farmers switched from producing tobacco to wheat, which required less labor leading to surplus of slaves. However, in 1793 northerner Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin; this device made it possible for textile mills to use the type of cotton most easily grown in the lower South. The invention of the cotton gin brought about a robust internal slave trade. As the lower South became more established in cotton production the region required more slave labor, which they received from upper South slaveowners looking to offload their surplus of slaves. In 1808, the United States banned the international slave trade (the importation of slaves), which only increased the demand for domestically traded slaves. In the upper South the most profitable cash crop was not was not an agricultural product but the sale of human lives. Although some southerners owned no slaves at all, by 1860 the South’s “peculiar institution” was inextricably tied to the region’s economy and society.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/slavery-united-states?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5uv-t_Wc4wIVdP_jBx2FSwkyEAAYASAAEgLsrPD_BwE

The Brits outlawed slavery in most colonies in1833.

Slavery Abolition Act
UNITED KINGDOM [1834]
WRITTEN BY: Natasha L. Henry

Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act