Popular street reporter Austen Fletcher aka Fleccas went to the University of Southern California to ask random students if they could recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Most of the students said that they knew the pledge but shockingly only a very few of them could actually recite it.
“This week I went back to USC to see if students could recite the pledge of allegiance,” Fleccas wrote with the video of his experience.
“Out of everyone we interviewed, 18 out of 31 people didn’t know or botched the pledge. Sad!”
One very confident female student, who firmly believed that she knew the pledge, started reciting it with “the United States of Republica.”
Generally, the students forgot the pledge from the end. A considerable number changed the word “indivisible” to “individual.”
According to USHistory.org, “the Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931). It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country.”
Secular.org reported that some atheist groups have problems with the words “under God” in the pledge. They claim that it leaves “non-theistic children” with the choice of either acknowledging God or being a protester.
“No child should go to school each day to have the class declare that her religious beliefs are wrong in an exercise that portrays her and her family as less patriotic than believers,” said David Niose, the president of the American Humanist Association.
“Proponents of including ‘under God’ in the Pledge argue that the United States is a Christian nation, at least 80% of Americans support the phrase, the language reflects America’s civic culture and is not a religious statement, and federal law, state constitutions, and US currency already contain references to God,” said ProCon.
org.
Well, it is about time you learn the pledge by heart, or you could be the next person being bashed by a random street reporter.
Replaced!