The University of Houston’s Gerald Horne believes that collective America does not acknowledge the darkest moments of its history — because we still recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the National Anthem. A professor of history and African-American Studies, Horne says the Pledge is the post-Civil War “glue” that served to bind together this “artificially-constructed … Continue reading U. Houston prof: Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem ‘ignore’ America’s racist history