Posted on 11/09/2017 4:50:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The California NAACP is coming after a new symbol of American heritage for its “racism.”
The Star-Spangled Banner.
According to SFGate.com, the national anthem is a “racist song” and the NAACP wants to push state lawmakers to change it.
Alice Huffman, the president of the California chapter of the NAACP, said the song is “racist” and that it “doesn’t represent our community. It’s anti-black people.”
The cites the song’s third verse, which is usually not sang, as evidence of its racist overtones. The third verse includes a line that says, “no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
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This is a prime example of how the NAACP cannot be taught.
“It’s anti-black people.”
Prove it.
The National Association for the Advancement of Communistic Principles strikes again.
hangin’ their ha on one word slave
“which is usually not SUNG”
The Daily Caller writer must be an “English as a second language” hire.
Isn’t that the flag that freed the slaves and that has liberated millions around the world?
Daniel Greenfield answers that one:
The British used mercenaries (hirelings) and escaped slaves in their ranks. They were the enemy. Key wished them harm. Duh.
Democrats repealed the laws (in the 21st century) against Communists and seditionists teaching the schools and this is what you get.
As the instapundit.com guy says, a nice unexpected result of Trump’s election is that we are now regularly seeing the craziest people and tribes in our country deliberately proclaiming their insanity.
When the government took over education their sole purpose was to dumb down the populace and re educate them in lies, this worked. Enter in these support groups to guide them encourage them and support them and we have a revolution
When whining Black liberals come on the TV I simply change the channel. I have shut these morons out of my life.
You didn’t think they’d stop with the Confederate Flag did you?
How many people knew the SSB has more than one stanza?
Have they read the Pauline Epistles? Lots of slave talk in there.
Slaves were akin to a king’s subjects, not slaves bought and brought from Africa and working in a field. Miseducation.
We were avoiding the tyranny of English and French, hence the context.
Ignorance on Parade!
The NAACP needs a scholarship from the United Negro College Fund because A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Based on this article they have lost their minds.
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