Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Leftists Declare War on 'Archaic' and 'White Nationalist' Pledge of Allegiance
Patriotism is under assault in city halls and school classrooms and athletic stadiums across the fruited plain.
In chapter two of my forthcoming book, Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation, I warn Americans about the stealth war being waged on our traditions and heritage.
That’s why so many lawmakers and educators have been triggered by the Pledge of Allegiance. The belief that we are one nation under God has caused an untold number of leftists to suffer microaggressions.
The latest incident occurred in Arcata, California, where a lawmaker called for the eradication of the Pledge of Allegiance at city-council meetings.
“I would love to get rid of the flag salute,” city councilman Paul Pitino Pitino said Aug. 21 in remarks reported by the Lost Coast Outpost.
Pitino made national headlines in 2018 when he called for the removal of a statue honoring President William McKinley.
City leaders voted to remove the statue because they viewed McKinley’s annexation of tribal lands in the western U.S. and Hawaii as “racist toward indigenous people.”
The city council did not take immediate action on Pitino’s request, but given its aversion to patriotism, I would not be surprised if the pledge got the heave-ho.
Meanwhile, in Hammond, Indiana, a member of the South Shore Convention and Visitor’s Authority caused a bit of a tiff when he refused to recite the pledge because of its alleged white-nationalist origins.
“An important tenant in the way I live my life is introspection, self-criticism, and a historical perspective,” Raymundo Garcia told newspaper columnist Jerry Davich. “We need to remind people of the hypocrisy, the true racial origin and the historical context in which the Pledge originated.”
And hell hath no fury like a school district that catches a teacher trying to instill American pride into the hearts and minds of students.
Just ask Daniel Goodman, a former school teacher in Florida who was indefinitely removed from the classroom because he dared to lecture students who refused to stand for the pledge.
Unfortunately, we live in a day when the leftists not only want us to forget the past, they want to destroy the past.
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4 comments:
I object to the introduction of religion into the Pledge.
The Pledge was (mostly) written by Francis Julius Bellamy, a Christian Socialist. So, the imbeciles trying to mark it as 'White Supremacist' are easy to shoot down.
I HAVE stated, elsewhere, that I object to the pledge as it is currently worded. 'Under God' was added to the Pledge in the 1950's. If we are going to use a man's words, I think we should use them as he wrote them. But that's me. I have no problem with the concept of a nation under God, I just think that a man's work shouldn't't be adulterated.
The point of "Under God" was to reject the notion of "Godless Communism" during the "Red Scare," the first Russian attempt at influencing our Democratic processes for their own benefit.
[McCarthy was more right than anyone cares to admit these days....he just chose his targets poorly.]
Personally, I think the "Under God" is an overreach, given our nation's lurch to secularism and humanism. If that were the ONLY objection, a discussion and compromise might be possible. However, like "pro-choice" people who fall back to "rape and incest" claims, there is no level of compromise with those who would destroy the pledge. They simply pick the weakest point, and attack there, with no intention of compromising at all.
I object to all this P.C. nonsense all this BCE and CE poppycock its time for some Common Sense to return
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