Posted on 01/22/2019 12:32:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A prominent immigrant-rights activist launched a drive Tuesday to rewrite the American Pledge of Allegiance, saying as it stands now it’s a symbol of “rooted in nativism and white supremacy.”
Cesar Vargas, a “Dreamer” who came to the country illegally with his mother and now runs the Dream Action Coalition, says the pledge speaks to fear, while he wants to see a version imbued with “optimism.”
“The upgraded version should read: “I pledge allegiance and love to our indigenous and immigrant heritage, rooted in the United States of America, to our civil rights for which we strive, one voice, one nation, for equality and justice for all,’” Mr. Vargas wrote in a commentary piece for The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress and Washington.
He said incidents like “white teenagers harassing a Native American elder or chanting ‘build the wall’ at Mexican immigrants” cry out for a rethink of the way the country views itself.
Mr. Vargas also said the pledge should be taken with people facing each other, not just forward facing a flag at the front of a room, as a symbol of the diversity of those who make up America.
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Remember the Alamo.
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These illegal sleazebags are really getting on my nerves.
Someone kick these A-holes the hell out of my country.
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Yes, sir.
"Mr. Vargas also said the pledge should be taken with people facing each other, not just forward facing a flag at the front of a room." ----
Vargas doesn't eve want to look at the flag. Unreal.
“Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931) was a Christian socialist minister and author, best known for writing the original version of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.....Bellamy “believed in the absolute separation of church and state” and did not include the phrase “under God” in his pledge.”
“His original Pledge read as follows:
‘I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’
The recital was accompanied with a salute to the flag known as the Bellamy salute, described in detail by Bellamy. During World War II, the salute was replaced with a hand-over-heart gesture because the original form involved stretching the arm out towards the flag in a manner that resembled the later Nazi salute.”
“Bellamy was a Christian socialist who championed ‘the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus.’ In 1891, Bellamy was forced from his Boston pulpit for preaching against the evils of capitalism, and eventually stopped attending church altogether after moving to Florida, reportedly because of the racism he witnessed there. Francis’s career as a preacher ended because of his tendency to describe Jesus as a socialist. In the 21st century, Bellamy is considered an early American democratic socialist.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
No such thing.
Cesar would pledge allegiance to the Mexican Flag.
‘Actually you are pledging to the flag AND the country for which it stands.’
don’t confuse him...
Would it be racist to say it in a Speedy Gonzales voice?
I can’t tell anymore.
GTFO
‘No such thing.’
do some research; educate yourself...
“No such thing.”
You don’t think the Pilgrims were Christians? Because they certainly gave socialism the old college try until they nearly starved in the attempt. There’s been plenty of other Christian sects that have tried it.
https://mises.org/library/great-thanksgiving-hoax-1
“Christian socialist”
LOL
Give unto Marx what is Marx’s eh?
It’s ok for Mexico to have a pledge but the US can’t. Ok, then.
“I’ll go get Speedy Gonzales. He’s a friend of my sister.”
“Si. He’s a friend of EVERYBODY’S sister.”
Don't try. As they say, "You can't fix stupid".
THIS is what is coming if we do not stop it now. Time is running out. These DACA a-hole ILLEGAL spawn are not the good people coming off the boat at Ellis Island waving American flags and tirelessly working to assimilate.
So, if there is white supremacy, it follows that there is white superiority.
Next step will be to set up guillotines to deal with deplorable white males.
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