Pledge of Allegiance Interview
Is this a problem you think is important? Why/ Why not?
Yes, I think it
is definitely important to address that children should not be saying the
pledge of allegiance in schools. Kids can’t even comprehend the idea behind the
pledge of allegiance because there’s hidden agenda’s all over the place. First
of all, God, who is not real no matter how much we want him to be! God is not
real, so first of all, one nation under god… really? We created this nation to
be a place of equal opportunity for everyone including all religions. To say
that this is one nation under god just isn’t right.
Okay, now let’s
just look at the pledge of allegiance for a minute. “I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the united states of America” I mean, how can you pledge allegiance to
a piece of fabric! What does that fabric mean? What is it supposed to mean. It’s
supposed to be liberty, justice, and freedom for all. But it’s a lie! I mean
look at all the discrimination that’s gone on in this country since it was
founded. You only have those rights if the rich white men approve of you. Right
now it’s the LGBT community that is fighting for their rights that the ideology
of America says they should have! Those kids are pledging their allegiance to
the ideology of America which is all just a lie used to keep this countries
people loyal.
I mean we used
to have prayer in school as well and now you do your prayers at home with your
family and I don’t understand why the pledge can’t be like that. There’s no
reason why, if you feel passionately about it, that you shouldn’t be doing it
at home with your family. When a child is going to school he’s going to learn
knowledge and facts not ideology about America that are just empty words that
he can’t understand the meaning to.
It’s all just
brainwashing. They don’t ever want kids believe anything besides the idea that America
is amazing, and no matter how many times they say that oath America won’t be
amazing. It’s all conspiracy and corruption. It all starts with the corruption you don’t
want to see and once you see it you’ll never ever be listened to. As were
growing up in this world today conspiracy theories are looked at as pure
lunacy. You can’t even bring up an idea that goes against the government because
you’re labeled as a crazy person who is un-American. They want you to stay in
the herd and conform to their rules and beliefs.
So you should definitely
never have to say the pledge of allegiance when your country is so flawed and disgusting.
And as a kid you don’t even know that it’s flawed! I mean in schools they’re
just starting to talk truthfully about what Christopher Columbus did when this
country was first found by us. They’re not going to be talking about what our
government really does now! We came here and had a mass genocide with disease
and murder. We look at other countries with disgust that have committed genocides
and holocausts but we’ve done a lot of similar things! We just did it a lot
sketchier. We traded with the Native Americans and killed them with diseases and
sickness. The ones who remained we killed, sold as slaves, and put on small
reservations and in workshops and is that any better than pointing a gun at
someone’s face and pulling the trigger?
During WWII we
put our own Japanese American citizens into camps all around the country and
FDR himself called them concentration camps. People die in this world all the
time and just because we were attacked one day we went to war and killed so
many people. I mean look at japan we dropped a fucking atom bomb on them. I
mean was Pearl Harbor bad? Yes it was. Was it the worst thing ever? No, it wasn’t.
To drop a nuclear weapon on someone you have to be a fucking manic. People that
are alive now are affected by what we did on that day. The planet was affected
and generations of people were effected by that radiation. Now, say there’s a
kid in the school whose life was affected by something that we did in a war.
Say a child is a refugee from the Middle East and his father, mother, or brothers
were killed by American soldiers. And now he has to listen and possibly pledge
to the American flag every day. That’s disgusting. And people say “well if they
don’t want to be loyal to us then they can go back to where they came from” and
no they can’t, because it’s destroyed. Not everyone has the means to choose
where they live some people just end up where they end up and they can’t change
it. It’s just a place to live and people shouldn’t have to pledge to the
ideology of that nation.
A child doesn’t
even know that these atrocities have gone on. And without any prior knowledge
you ask him to just give his entire life and allegiance to this nation, which
is just wrong. Everything is just so flawed and so wrong.
There’s a
deeper issue within our country and it’s that were all fucking scumbags! The people
who are in control and decide things for us don’t give a shit about anyone.
They only care about their own agendas and their own greed and money and they
don’t care what happens to other people because quite frankly they don’t have
to deal with it. These same people want you to grow up thinking that this place
is amazing and they don’t want you to ever question that pledge of allegiance.
They think that the pledge is something you should always accept when in
reality there is no reason to pledge your allegiance to this country, because
we don’t do good things for anyone, not even for ourselves. How can you tell
kids to take a legitimate oath every day in school when no one is doing
anything for them? The government that they’re pledging to won’t even give
their school enough money for them to learn properly! If people are going to
take an oath for a country then the country has to be giving back, and this country
doesn’t give back.
Again, humans
are scumbags, that is a fact. If you can get power from taking other people’s
rights away and making them think that they have rights they’ll do it, and it
already happened. What a lot of people
tend to forget is that this country was founded on a conspiracy. We didn’t like
being oppressed by the government and we fought it and it worked. But in today’s
day and age there is no way that the people could rise up against this
government because the government is far too powerful. If we ever wanted to, as
a whole, rise up against this country they would beat us into submission. They
know that one day the people of this nation are going to rise up and say “We
don’t want to do this anymore” and they’re going to have to kill so many
people. And they don’t want to do that, because if they kill of all us then
they won’t be able to make their money. We’re just like the fucking donkeys
that they walk around all day and make us carry the load when they just sit back
and relax and it’s not right. I guarantee that one day the military will flood
the streets and what do you do when there’s a soldier outside with a machine
gun and you don’t have one?
Do you think they would ever create a
policy to ban the pledge of allegiance in schools?
Reflection- I absolutely
loved doing this interview with Justin because we honestly have the same view
point on everything, but he verbalized it better than I ever could. I just don’t
understand why we still have the Pledge of Allegiance in schools when there are
so many reasons why it shouldn’t be there. First of all I believe that the
Pledge of Allegiance should be said at home with the child’s family. It has no
place in a school where children go to learn about facts. The Pledge of
Allegiance is made to the ideology of America but that is based on a lie and is
just used to keep its people loyal. There are plenty of people and groups of
people throughout American history that have been denied freedom, liberty, and justice.
Another reason
why students shouldn’t be saying it is because they have no understanding of
what they’re saying. They don’t know what the words stand for or what things
their country has done in the past and is still doing now. They are too young
to understand the oath they are making to their country and they should be able
to make the choice when they’re older and fully comprehend the words.
One of the most
blatant reasons why the Pledge shouldn’t be said is obviously the phrase “Under
God” in it. This is not a nation under God! There are so many other religions
in this nation that it’s just offensive to me that they still even say this is
schools. Yes, an atheist child can chose to opt out of saying the Pledge of
Allegiance, but what if he wants to say it. What if he wants to pledge
allegiance to his nation but not to god? He is unrecognized by his nation in
the pledge that is being said in the school. People need to realize that we are
not one nation under God and never will be!
Not only are
people’s religions different in this nation but their backgrounds and cultures
are too. We have plenty of refugee families that come here after their home is
destroyed. And although I’m sure they’re grateful to have a roof over their
head they may not like it here and may be waiting until they can go back home.
Or maybe we were the ones who destroyed their homes or killed their families.
We don’t know their backgrounds and we have no right to assume that just
because they live here they should want to pledge their allegiance to America.
I know for me
personally, living in America is nothing special. I feel no connection to this
nation and honestly it’s just the place I was born and live. I’m not going to
leave because I have family here, I’m going to school here, and I have modern conveniences
here. Yes, I’m grateful for these things, but does that mean I’m going to
Pledge Allegiance to this nation under God? No, absolutely not. If you want to
that’s absolutely fine, but I don’t think that children who don’t understand what
they’re saying should be exposed to it in schools. Instead, they can say it at
home with their families, which are the cornerstone of American ideology and
where the Pledge of Allegiance should be said.
