In Denver college professor Charles
Angeletti's American Civilization class you're going to
have to recite his anti-American 'New Pledge' and according to students, also be
ready to swallow a big helping of his liberal politics.
Charles Angeletti |
Angeletti, who teaches at Metropolitan State University of
Denver, has students learn an anti-American Pledge of Allegiance
that denounces the U.S. as a Republican-controlled bastion of injustice, all
while spewing his own far-left brand of politics, according to current and
former students.
“I pledge allegiance to and wrap myself in the flag of the
United States Against Anything Un-American,” reads Angeletti's version. “And to
the Republicans for which it stands, two nations, under Jesus, rich against
poor, with curtailed liberty and justice for all except blacks, homosexuals,
women who want abortions, Communists, welfare queens, treehuggers, feminazis,
illegal immigrants, children of illegal immigrants, and you, if you don't watch
your step.”
The anti-U.S. recitation, first reported by higher education
blog Campus Reform, was a satirical pledge aimed at getting students to
question their nation's leadership, Angeletti said. The self-proclaimed atheist
and socialist told the site that he has been distributing the pledge in his
classes for nearly 20 years as part of his lesson plan.
“We're very racist, we're very repressive, we're very
Christian oriented, we don't tolerate other kinds of thinking in this country,”
Angeletti told Campus Reform. “I could go on and on and do, in my classes,
for hours about things that we need to do to make this a better country.”
A student from Angeletti's class told Campus Reform that the
flier was handed out to the entire class and all students were required to
recite it.
“This was an attempt to propagandize an entire classroom of
young adults,” Steven Farr, a freshman majoring in meteorology, told the blog
site.
The 24,000-student school has the
second-highest undergraduate enrollment in the state and has several notable
Division II sports programs. It also bills itself as a top choice for
active-duty military and veterans to pursue higher education, and has several
notable Division II sports programs.
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