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   At Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa California, student leaders voted to ban the pledge of allegiance from their twice-weekly meetings. Their reason?  According to them, there is no reason to swear allegiance to God or the U.S. Government. The change in the school policy which had been in place since the school’s founding in 1948 was led by three recently elected student executive members: Regis F. Jues, Coyotal Tezcatlipoca, and Jason Ball. The three members on the board of five ran for office wearing Revolutionary-Style berets in the fashion of Communist leader Che Guevara. When asked about the vote to stop the pledge, Jason Bell said he found the pledge offensive because, “I am an atheist and a socialist.” He went on to say the pledge is "irrelevant to the business of student government.  Nationalism is something that divides people.”

   Not everyone has let the issue remain where it is. Vice president of the ASOCC (Associated Students of Orange Coast College) Christine Zoldos has vowed to attend every meeting to salute the flag. Zoldos has started making good on that vow, attending the first meeting since the ban and prompting others to stand in the salute to the flag. "What I'm about to say might offend some of you” said Zoldos.  “If you get offended by the Pledge of Allegiance, please leave the room.” Jues, Tezcatlipoca, and Ball did not leave the room, but remained seated throughout the pledge. While our freedom of expression and speech in this country thankfully do not demand that we say anything we do not believe in, it is customary to stand even during the pledge or national anthem of another country while you are present as a show of respect.

  

         

 

IThe election of people like Jues, Tezcatlipoca, and Ball at Orange Coast College is, sadly, not the exception on today campuses. The deconstructionist movement is powerful among both educators and administrators.  When surveyed, almost all elite American colleges have shown that they no longer require any courses in American History. Of those that do still maintain American studies departments, many are patently anti-American in nature. One of the History books that consistently shows up on the top ten list of college and high school AP history curriculum is Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States. Zinn’s book is American History as seen through a philosophy that incorporates Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. The result is a history in which the Founders are villains and the American dream is a nightmare of domination. The end of A People’s History contains no references or footnotes. It’s as if, to Zinn, none of the facts or surviving documents is of any consequence.

  With teachers assigning Zinn's People's History and books like it as  standard texts, can we be surprised when these attitudes toward the country become acceptable, even the norm, on campuses?

 At BHI the battle to reawaken America to herself and her history (before it is rewritten) continues.

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