Calif. Board of Trustees Scraps Pledge of Allegiance over ‘White Nationalism’ History

The Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees President says the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag is “steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.”

In emails obtained exclusively by Campus Reform, the president of the SBCC Board of Trustees, Robert Miller, stated that he decided to “discontinue use of the Pledge of Allegiance” at board meetings because of its history.

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{snip} “I have discovered that the Pledge of Allegiance has a history steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.”

In addition to these reasons, Miller stated that he’d rather pledge his allegiance to the Constitution “instead of a physical object.”