Posted on 06/29/2019 12:55:34 PM PDT by ClaytonForester
The idea was well-intentioned: City council members in St. Louis Park, Minn., a left-leaning suburb of Minneapolis, wanted to make sure that all residents felt welcome at their bimonthly meetings. So, last week, they voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
“I hope it’s not too controversial,” St. Louis Park City Council Member Tim Brausen told the Star Tribune. “Our community tends to be a very welcoming and increasingly diverse community, and we believe our citizens will understand."
It did, in fact, prove to be controversial.
“Anti-American much?” talk show host Joe Pagliarulo tweeted on Wednesday. “St Louis Park should no longer be allowed to claim it’s in the United States of America.”
Right in time for the Fourth of July, the city of just over 49,000 people is being accused of insufficient patriotism, and its nonpartisan city council is showing signs that it may reconsider. Neither St. Louis Park’s mayor nor any of the six council members could be reached for comment late Thursday night, but Jacque Smith, the communications and marketing manager for the city, told The Washington Post in an email that the council plans to revisit its decision at a July 8 study session “after hearing many comments from the community.”
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Interesting how the Left assumes that diversity means disloyalty to America.
What the heck is wrong with these people?
All these “diverse” people have chosen to live in the USA. I can’t imagine that most people, regardless of their ethnicity, etc. find the pledge disturbing or annoying
The Dems all seem to want to go back to the 60s, so here you go:
AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!!!!
unacceptable
“St. Louis Park, Minn., a left-leaning suburb of Minneapolis . . .”
What part of Minneapolis ISN’T left leaning? The people in that area probably think the Red River treaty of 1818 was a mistake. That’s the treaty which set the US-Canadian border at the 49th parallel, and gave all of Minnesota and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the US.
Yep. they caught a ton of flack on this one.
I remember, back in the day, when it was known as “St. Jewish Park”.
This “we want everyone to feel welcome” or “we don’t want anyone to be offended” is just a ruse.
The goal is to erase, little by little, anything that smacks of traditional America.
The goal of globalists is not only to replace the white population, but to erase all American history prior to WWII.
Diversity is our perversity.
Try diversity in the measurements of your car engine cylinders.
Try diversity in the proportions of your prescribed medicines.
Try diversity in your airline software - as Boeing apparently did.
Sorry, but if other folks want to come to America, learning the culture, language, and RULES, this are good.
Practicing certain “religions” of hate and goat boinking is NOT.
Period.
Somalis, wake up,
Support your country
Support them forever.
Stop fighting each other
Come back with strength and joy and do be friends again
It's time to look forward and take command
Defeat your enemies and unite once again.
become strong again and again
Gasp, I did an AOC. “This are good” should be ...well, you know.
YEP!
I’m guessing conservatives in Texas are a little different than conservatives in Staten Island are a little different than conservatives in Ohio...
What the #$#$ does that have to do with Pledging Allegiance to your country??
Yeah you would think that regardless of race, religion, sex, and others, the citizens of the country would at least agree to be respectful to the country.
This diversity crap is killing our country.
They are just using immigrants as human shields.
Allahu akhbar will soon be replacing it.
They will vote in sheria law next.
I remember, back in the day, when it was known as “St. Jewish Park”.
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I was just about to post the same thing. The Lincoln Del is long gone. Skinnies dominate Blake Road. The Target always looks like it has just been looted.
I have a meeting with a city supervisor on Monday.I will be asking him about the inside scoop on this. He likes to unload so it should be fun.
Lincoln Del...
Mmmmmmmm………
I am in my 9th decade and truly cannot believe what I am experiencing. Lets hope God doesn’t really get pi$$ed off at us.
They hate the US because of Communist propaganda, Lefty media influence and the Democratic Party.
The way of life they THINK they want would actually make them poorer, less free and more under the thumb of totoalitarian thinking.
The barbed wire would be real, the taxation for “free” stuff would cause starvation.
They have been brainwashed into thinking our way of life is bad, yet millions try to get here every year to live of our taxes.
Liberals are truly the lowest, most insane people I have ever encountered.
St. Louis Park still has Bunnys. So there’s that.
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