The article, written by Post columnist Ishaan Tharoor, literally charged Americans with being racists if they consider themselves patriotic: “Critics argue that [Trump’s] conspicuous reference to ‘patriotic’ parents is simply another form of dog whistle to a predominantly White pool of voters uncomfortable with the ways the country’s demographics and wider cultural discourse are evolving.”, Let’s set aside, for now, the idiotic and false idea that the United States is a single ethnic group, such that loving our multiracial society somehow establishes a preference for “white people.” (In fact, because the United States and its founding ideals are pan-ethnic, loving it actually is, ipso facto, genuinely antiracist.
Instead of engaging in this complex debate, and fairly considering the perspectives of Americans who are quite aware of their country’s failures yet still love it and have very good reasons for doing so, corporate media instead assists the schools’ propaganda campaign. Since the case did not address the underlying issue of religious freedom, future challenges are likely. What American kids are not being taught proportionately, however, is what is good and noble about their country, or any sense of moral complexity and humility about the past. President Donald Trump said Monday that the nation must restore “patriotic education” in schools as a way to calm unrest in cities and counter “lies” about racism in the United States. Trump demands 'patriotic education' in U.S. schools Children must be taught that America is “an exceptional, free and just nation, worth defending, preserving and protecting,” he said. Patriotism can be defined simply as love of country—it's a love that seems to include much of the world's population. Although the Barnette decision held that students could not be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the pledge has remained a mainstay of U.S. public education. ', Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. Find good things to say about our country and our country's heroes. As our new book “Patriotic Education in a Global Age” demonstrates, such debates are longstanding in American history. ↓ ", “The only path to unity is to rebuild a shared national identity focused on common American values and virtues of which we have plenty,” he said. Three years later, in 1892, the schoolhouse flag movement received a huge boost when The Youth’s Companion – one of the nation’s first weekly magazines to target both adults and their children – hired minister-turned-advertiser Francis Bellamy to develop promotional strategies to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage to America. '” You can’t make this stuff up. Any self-respecting country teaches each successive generation about its history, ideals, failures, and achievements. But the GOP 2016 platform, which will remain in place for 2020, describes the concept as “the notion that our ideas and principles as a nation give us a unique place of moral leadership in the world.”, Biden’s response: “I urge the President to join me in saying that while peaceful protest is a right — a necessity — violence is wrong, period," Biden said in a statement responding to Trump's remarks. | AP Photo/Andrew Harnik. Any self-respecting country teaches each successive generation about its history, ideals, failures, and achievements. Something went wrong please contact us at support@fatherly.com. Read the original article here. Children must be taught that America is “an exceptional, free and just nation, worth defending, preserving and protecting,” he said.