Well, it’s no surprise that we’ve arrived here at last. Not only are NFL players kneeling or refusing to stand during the National Anthem; remember when Shaun King exposed “The Star Spangled Banner” itself as racist, noting the presence of the word “slave” in the rarely sung third verse?
Now the Washington Post is here to expose the ugly history of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Christopher Petrella, a lecturer in American cultural studies at Bates College, writes:
While the language contained in the pledge is not overtly nativist or xenophobic, the spirit that animated its creation was steeped in this sort of bigotry.
Through the pledge, [Francis] Bellamy sought to define “true Americanism” against the rising tide of southern and eastern European immigrants “pouring over our country” in the early 20th century from “races which we cannot assimilate without a lowering of our racial standard.” Although Bellamy conceded that “the United States has always been a nation of immigrants,” he argued that “incoming waves of immigrants … are coming from countries whose institutions are entirely at variance with our own.”
Petrella concludes that protests like #TakeAKnee need to continue, writing that Bellamy’s Pledge of Allegiance “was, at its core, designed as an instrument of white nationalism deployed to combat the dangerous outsiders of his day.”
So … all we need to do is get rid of the racist national anthem and the racist Pledge of Allegiance and statues of Confederates and Christopher Columbus and Francis Scott Key and perform a “landscape intervention”for any triggering place names on campus and replace them with names that honor people of color.
If I’m a racist, how does not reciting the pledge make me less of a racist?
You’re more liable to make me into a racist by disrespecting the flag and the country.
ht/ Christian PDX
Pledging Allegiance to the Flag is Racist and Bigoted
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Fine. Then pledging allegiance to any flag other that the American flag while residing on American soil is treason.
The penalty for treason is death.
Problem solved.
My erudite and cultured response to the WP is fuck off and die.
Yup, either pony up or get the phuck out.
If pledging allegiance to the flag is racist and bigoted then maybe those that oppose it should not be allowed what it stands for….such as freedom of speech.
It would be a shame if such stupid and divisive beliefs led to a second Civil War.
Just like it was the first time it happened.
Come, Death, come. Thy time approacheth once more.
This seems appropriate
https://youtu.be/TZBTyTWOZCM
I say the Pledge about four times a month at various meetings and have for more than a decade. I’m not going to stop just because some racist lunatic says doing so is racist.
I say the Pledge every Monday night with my daughter at her American Heritage Girls meeting, and she does every morning at school (private).
Bman – While watching Red Skelton I thought of the Deck of Cards. While not really relevant to the Pledge of Allegiance, it is for Sundays. By watching these old classics, I always learn something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsCiaxPhtVY
Immaterial what lunatics and drug addicts call me. Raise a hand in violence though, then it matters.
WaPo has finally joined NYT in going Full Marxist.
Always with some obscure academic as Guest Lecturer at the Bourgeoisie Re-Education Barracks.
Time to apply Antitrust law and break up Amazon into many pieces. Give Jeff Bezos something more immediate to worry about than playing Bond Villain with the WaPo as his laser shark.
Why can’t they do us a favor and get the hell out? There are plenty of other places to live that don’t have our flag and anthem.
First, it’s the WaPo. ‘Nuff said there.
Second, Father Francis Bellamy was a socialist. Betcha the WaPo didn’t mention THAT, did they?
Third, the Pledge has been amended and edited at least once to become the all-inclusive (with liberty and justice for all) version we know, love, and recite today.
Anything else, WapPo revisionist assholes?
The NFL is run by a bunch of wimps who are afraid of these players. The kneelers use their color to intimidate and expect everyone to jump when they have a tantrum. Fire them.
When their mansion goes into foreclosure and the Ferrari is repossessed they might get it!
The kneelers are delusional if they think Americans will give in and accept their insults.
WaPoop isn’t a legitimate newspaper….and Bezos isn’t fit to be a human being.
And Bellamy was absolutely right about immigrants.
Eugenia said it best fuck off and die and take your communist shit brothers with you