Posted on 02/13/2018 12:40:16 PM PST by Lonely Bull
SAN RAMON (CBS SF) – A seldom sung third verse of the National Anthem has led to the patriotic song being removed from rallies at San Ramon’s California High School.
The decision has sparked a controversy among local residents and students.
In a letter to the student body published in the school newspaper, Associated Student Body President Ariyana Kermanizadeh wrote the decision to drop “The Star Spangled Banner” from the school’s winter rally was made after students became aware of the third verse.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Cut public funding to it.
They don’t like our anthem, they don’t like our flag, they can do without our money.
What kinda American name is Ariyana Kermanizadeh ?
That's my adopted home town.
-PJ
president amiyana abbazabba- that’s the problem right there
Not certain, but it could be Georgian.
Or Iranian.
I know what I’d be doing from the stands for their games... if I were to have the misfortune of living in that district.
Star Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key
O say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner — O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto — “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
So I guess these people watched that episode of “All in the Family” and heard Mike Stivic’s silly, ridiculous ideas about the song and then had to re-enact them in that situation.
Persian or Bengladeshi. Probably Muslim.
Idiots don’t understand that the “slave” the third verse talks about is the pressed British soldier and sailor, rebuffed by the fort.
Ignorance piled on top of ignorance.
You'd think that the adults would take control of what appears to be an out-of-control student body, but nooooooo ... it is California, after all.
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave”
I’m guessing this is the section they object to based on the word slave. What morons. In classical times a slave was someone who was a subject, servant, or bondsman/woman. In this context I think Key is talking about the British being slaves because they are subject to the King of England. It is intended as an insult to the English, because they are not citizens of a free Republic like Americans are.
But only an ignorant modern-day moron would object to this thinking it is an aspersion against African Americans.
Our Swing Band always played Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4 at all of our pep rallies, but then that was in the early 70’s
All four verses:
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
This was penned in 1814, before the Civil War, and has the context of the Revolution and War of 1812 in which Great Britain exploited slaves and mercenaries to fight for their side. The third stanza was anti-British (at the time), not pro-slavery. It is pro-freedom.
Our Pep Band always used the theme from "Hogan's Heroes" .. including the drum intro .. as out opening song at every Pep Rally.
Then again, we had a sign that read "Stalag 13" on the bandstand that we set up ...
California NAACP seeks to remove 'Star-Spangled Banner' as national anthem
California NAACP Denounces ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ as ‘Racist,’ ‘Anti-Black People’
California NAACP Wants To Remove ‘Racist’ Star-Spangled Banner
The excerpt in the last thread (my order here is simply chronological) explicitly identifies the Offensive Section as the same part of the third verse.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this action at the high school comes directly or indirectly from the California NAACP effort (or if both come from the same deeper parent source).
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