The New US Pledge of Allegiance

Name: Anthony A. Gonzalez

Date: 9/29/2021, 21st Century, CE

Subject Matter: Domestic Matters(for US) Personal Perspective

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New US Pledge of Allegiance

The US Pledge of Allegiance. Almost every public school here in the United States has our country’s school aged kids and teens grades PK-12 recite it at the beginning of every school day. I've recited it along with the rest of my classmates/peers throughout my public school years throughout my youth. And I’m sure you many of you have as well.

But after a while, have you ever wondered to yourselves whether or not there was something about the pledge itself that either lacked something that was missing or had something about itself that should be different? Because as I have gotten older and older throughout the course of my youth, I myself definitely have. For example. I’ve begun to realize more and more how excluding, alienating, rosely shallow, and self contradictory it truly is.

To begin with, the current pledge of allegiance starts with the words; “I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America”, when realistically there is far more to every country in the world and both it own history and national identity (regardless of what country it is/is not) regardless of its own flag. A country’s own national flag may be important/practical/convenient/simplifying in regards to eliminating confusion and distinguishing which country is which, but does not do an entire full justice of sharing to the world what itself is truly about among its fellow nations.

Besides such, another part of the pledge says the words, “One Nation under God”, when not everybody in this day in age believes in God. The majority of our US Population is a prime example of such. That particular passage is excluding a significant portion of our fellow Americans. In addition to hypocritically contradicting itself based on what our very own US Constitution emphasizes as one of the essential key human liberties that really layout the very foundation on which every existing functional democracy still stands on to this very day which happens to be explicitly stated in our Bill of Rights: The Right to Freedom of/from Religion.

As a result of such, from my own viewpoint at very least, such following has compelled me to remodify the current version into a kind with more demographically transcendently relatable words for the purpose of promoting both a culture of inclusivity in which all school children from PK-12 here in the United States can feel both a sense of solidarity with one another/everyone else as well as such of profound belonging as part of a nation that truly lives up to it’s own monicker, “the land of equal opportunity” regardless of what walk of life they come from, in addition to soberingly awaken their own true consciences of what it actually means to be patriotic out of love and devotion for one’s own country. Or as President John F. Kennedy wisely put it in his Presidential Inauguration Address of January 20, 1961, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

My variant below for what I personally believe must imperatively be the indefinite brand new official US Pledge of Allegiance emphasizes the importance behind President Kennedy’s inaugural quote below this synopsis.

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New US Pledge of Allegiance

We all Pledged Allegiance to Our Homeland,

We so Endearingly and Proudly Call the United States of America,

And as One Single Republic, We Triumphantly So Stand,

As One Single Nation,Under All of Our Vigilant Watch,

As such So Indestructibly Indivisible,

In the Name of both Liberty and in the name of Justice; for Each and Every Single One of Us All.

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Thank you, readers/fellow Americans. And may every single one of us all bless the United States of America.