You Have a Better Pledge of Allegiance?
Zócalo Invites Naysayers To Offer Some Alternatives
Citizen Who, a one-man show written and performed by Eric Liu in a project for the Center For Social Cohesion, asks a lot of questions about what it means to be an American and what it means to be a citizen. Liu starts his performance by making the audience recite the oath taken by Americans during a citizenship ceremony. He closes his performance by asking the audience to join him in a new pledge of citizenship. In advance of Liu’s upcoming performance, we asked a number of Americans to reexamine …
