Houston Professor Believes America Does Not Acknowledge Its Racist History
The professor also isn’t happy with The Star-Spangled Banner.
The College Fix reports.
U. Houston prof: Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem ‘ignore’ America’s racist history
The University of Houston’s Gerald Horne believes that collective America does not acknowledge the darkest moments of its history — because we still recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the National Anthem.
A professor of history and African-American Studies, Horne says the Pledge is the post-Civil War “glue” that served to bind together this “artificially-constructed former slaveholders’ republic.”
Formally adopted during World War II, Horne contends the Pledge again played into the need for national unity, “not least because a substantial percentage of the citizenry, particularly those of African descent, were subjected to routine atrocities.”
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More proof that we need to dump Black Studies programs.
All degrees with ‘-studies’ appended to the name are inherently worthless. You can safely ignore 100% of everything they do.
Pledge of Allegiance was not written just after the Civil War. Rather, it was written and accepted by the government after the First World War.
I thought the Union army was the glue, but then again I’m not a professor of BS like he is.
Nah, Texas was winning their portion of the Civil War when the South quit. Of course, all that really shows is how (un)important Texas was at the time.
This country ‘acknowledged’ the sin of slavery with 600,000 Civil War dead, for starters. I really wish these Grievance Industry clowns would take their head cheerleader (Obama) and just get the fuck out if they hate the US so badly. Or at a minimum just shut the fuck up.
Funny that a nut like that would show up in Houston. Houston is the town where there was a mayoral election between a black Republican and a white Democrat, and they both agreed to run on the issues.
The only color that matters in Houston is green: that is, money. The only questions are “Can you deliver?” and “Can you pay me?”