Decrying the Pledge of Allegiance as being “steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism,” the new president of the Santa Barbara College Board of Trustees announced this year that the board would no longer recite the pledge during its meetings.
“I decided to discontinue use of the Pledge of Allegiance for reasons related to its history and symbolism,” wrote the board’s president, Robert Miller, in an email to former faculty member Celeste Barber first reported by Campus Reform. “I have discovered that the Pledge of Allegiance has a history steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism,” he explained later.
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