Now I can’t pledge allegiance to your flag
Cause I can’t find no reconciliation with your past

from Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Casey Benjamin) – Strange Fruition Lyrics on Rap Genius

Lupe finds the sentiments expressed in the Pledge of Allegiance hollow — due to, as he explains in succeeding lines, the US' historical and ongoing institutional racism

While we appreciate Lupe’s dig at the Pledge, it’s nothing compared to our homie William Lloyd Garrison, who in 1854 called the U.S. Constitution “a Covenant with Death and an Agreement with Hell” because of its support of slavery

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