Zócalo Public SquareYou Have a Better Pledge of Allegiance? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 You Have a Better Pledge of Allegiance? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/22/you-have-a-better-pledge-of-allegiance/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/22/you-have-a-better-pledge-of-allegiance/ideas/up-for-discussion/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:01:20 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=44112 Citizen Who, a one-man show written and performed by Eric Liu in a project for the Center For Social Cohesion, asks a lot of questions about what it means to be an American and what it means to be a citizen. Liu starts his performance by making the audience recite the oath taken by Americans during a citizenship ceremony. He closes his performance by asking the audience to join him in a new pledge of citizenship. In advance of Liu’s upcoming performance, we asked a number of Americans to reexamine a very familiar schoolhouse pledge: the Pledge of Allegiance. Suppose it has been cancelled or forgotten and we need a new one. How would it go? Those who like the old Pledge tended to pass on our invitation. Those with complaints about it gave us some answers, which follow.

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