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    Markell Braxton-JohnsonNov 2, 2017 at 7:46 PM

    While I can appreciate Brinson’s desire for a unified, altruistic America, I find her commentary severely lacking in perspective. There are several issues I have with her opinion, but I’ll limit my disagreements to these two:
    1. There has NEVER been a time in US history where there wasn’t strong division of opinion among Americans. The struggle for justice, liberty, and civil rights are all as old as the country itself. To suggest the United States doesn’t have an endless history of hostile debate, would be to delude oneself.
    2. On more than one occasion, Brinson expressed that our country was founded on the principle that we are one nation under god. That is factually untrue. Our Founding Fathers vigorously maintain the doctrine of Secularism – the separation of religion and governance. Furthermore, the phrase “one nation under god” was added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954 as a symbolic opposition to Communism; it had nothing to do with fidelity to a god.

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