Live stream videos of the board’s past several meetings show that the last time members recited the Pledge of Allegiance during a board meeting was Dec. 13. During the Jan. 10 live-streamed meeting, Miller noted at the beginning that it was his first meeting as president of the board. It was also the first meeting since a similar circumstance in summer 2018 that members did not recite the pledge.
“I decided to discontinue use of the Pledge of Allegiance for reasons related to its history and symbolism,” Miller said in an email to Celeste Barber, a former adjunct instructor at SBCC. “I have discovered that the Pledge of Allegiance has a history steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.”
In addition to these reasons, Miller stated that he’d rather pledge his allegiance to the Constitution “instead of a physical object.”
Go here to read the rest. Francis Bellamy who composed the Pledge back in 1892 was a Christian socialist. I think he and I would differ greatly on many political issues. However, words take on a meaning of their own, and in the Pledge he devised a wonderful short summary of American patriotism:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
These words, as subsequently expanded, have been meaningful to almost all Americans. Personally I tend not to like it when politicians, and what a truly sorry lot most of them are, say it en masse, since it seems to cheapen the words. But said by school children and by civic groups, my local Rotary Club opens each meeting with the Pledge and a prayer, it reminds us simply that we are Americans and the civic ideals we are shooting for. The contemporary Left hates those ideals almost as much as they hate American history and American patriotism, so it is little surprise that the Pledge is in their target hairs. Of course Eisenhower’s addition of under God, echoing Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, has sent them up the wall since it was put in place in 1954 (As a Knight I am proud to say that the Knights of Columbus played a pivotal role in this change to the Pledge.) Symbols are important for the unity of the nation, and Leftists are sending off signal after signal that the unity of this nation is of bupkis importance to them. This will not end well.
Thank you, Donald McClarey for Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance. A more beautiful rendition I have yet to hear. The Pledge, like the American Flag, like The United States, like our Constitution belongs to each and every citizen in joint and common tenancy. You own it all and I own it all and Robert Miller owns it all. Robert Miller does not get to deny anyone but himself the pleasure of reciting the Pledge. His abuse of power in office will not bode well for him. Freedom is a gift from God. Robert Miller is free to leave for Venezuela.
Most of the contemporary Left today does not really like our country,
They’re quite pleased with the fragments of it they dominate. They just despise the rest of us and the places we live. The Pledge of Allegiance is a bit of popular culture from the early 20th century, when patriotism was the default and the educational apparat wasn’t dominated by people who fancied themselves visitors from a superior neighborhood. Note Anthony Esolen’s distinction between popular culture and mass entertainment. Popular culture would be the music people play themselves on their own instruments. The Pledge of Alliegiance was for about two generations a ceremonial custom in local communities, maintained by local preferences. It’s popular culture. Christmas carols are popular culture. The ordinary sentiments of ordinary people are not to be valued. Their to be replaced with the artificial language and artificial sentiments of the self-aggrandizing bourgeois who dominate higher education, who fancy they’re delivering ‘wisdom’ to the initiated.
In Lingua Latina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZ-rewtg6k
Deus benedicat Civitatibus Americae Foederatis.
“In addition to these reasons, Miller stated that he’d rather pledge his allegiance to the Constitution “instead of a physical object.”
“We, the people” are physical objects
So’s the Constitution, for that matter. They keep a copy on display at the National Archives. You can go see it and everything.
Seen on fakebook. Pelosi and Schumer need open borders and illegals voting because Americans no longer vote for their ruinous policies. Then, they shriek “White Nationalism!”