Yahoo News: Let’s Face It, It’s Time To Cancel The Star Spangled Banner

Hotair ^ | 06/25/2020 | Ed Morrissey

[semaj]

Only if we change it to the Team America theme song.

[dfwgator]

I thought it was “Jose can you see?”

[dfwgator]

F Yeah!

[Thommas]

Next it will be “We need a new flag”, then “We need a new Constitution”.

Yep, and:

..a new US Capitol
..a new Presidential Residence (not white)
..a new US symbol (the bald eagle has a white crown)
..a new day of Independence (Juneteenth and not July 4)

Feel free to add to the list and expunge your white privilege and systemic racism.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Keep pushing and the silent majority will be the ones burning things down.

[dfwgator]

Rename Washington DC to Barryton (after Marion Barry)

[Aliska]

Next they’ll want to stop fireworks on the 4th of July.

[robowombat]

But what about “Lift Every Voice and Sing”? That song, written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900, set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905, and first publicly performed as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by Johnson’s brother John, was dubbed “the Negro national hymn” by the NAACP in 1919. In more recent years, it has been referenced in Maya Angelou’s 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing; it was also performed in 1972 by Kim Weston as the opening number for the Wattstax festival and by Beyoncé during her celebrated 2018 Coachella set.

This the ultimate in jamming it down whitey's throat. The perfect symbol for the reparations oriented movement. If the rats win by fraud or our laziness this year these two items will be on the rat Congressional agenda.

[dfwgator]

Or Randy Newman’s ‘Political Science’ (Let’s Drop the Big One)

[taterjay]

I am so very glad these idiot youngsters have and will never have any ‘issues’ like our forefathers. They will never say anything out of line, never treat anyone unkind, will never have to make a decision for the moment in time in which they live.

These idiots will surely be looked upon with contempt to future generations.

[frnewsjunkie]

In all the mess, what really caused this is overlooked....

They want their demands met. Well... the next breath is vote for biden... this is the problem.. the dems have done NOTHING for the inner cities and for the blacks who live in apartments that need work and schools that do not teach.. there is no getting out... it’s stuckville for them... and they ask for it.... they are just dumb and choose to stay that way if they can find no answer to what they are griping about.

The dems run the cities that are in trouble... the dems are a bunch of lying trouble makers... and yet the blacks vote for them every year.. over and over... they vote for the very ones who are not leting them do better...

you ask for it and you got it... don’t blame anyone but yourself... you want to vote dem because you have been told to...Trump has offered you everything you want and you don’t know it.. your brain can’t hear it or see it..

UNtil o vote for a good man .. you won’t see any advancement...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No.

The flag at Fort McHenry was still there.... because the bodies of American solders were holding it there. They gave all to keep that flag there.

And you prefer to croon about pretty mountains? Oh, of course... that is SO much more representative of the USA.

You know that line in "God bless the USA" about how "I won't forget the men who died"? Yeah. You forgot. Worse you don't care.

The Star Spangled Banner is exactly what the US is. If you think it is not, then you do not know it. And that is your own fault.

[taterjay]

Shove this down their throat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs

[WKUHilltopper]

Time to cancel yahoo news,

[SaxxonWoods]

I am facing the realization that Lyndsey Parker needs a beatin’.

[Fiji Hill]

The third stanza castigates “the hireling and slave,” which — depending on your point of view — either references the freed slaves fighting on the British side in the War of 1812 or the British navy’s “impression” of Americans into their service:

This is a reference to Job 7:2---"Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hireling waiting to be paid..." The line was probably intended as an insult to the British soldiers.

[Fiji Hill]

Next they’ll want to stop fireworks on the 4th of July.

Out here, there will be plenty of fireworks--all illegal, and some quite sophisticated.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

CrimsonTidegirl: Let’s face it; It’s time to cancel Yahoo News.

[LucyT]

Just say

NO.

[robowombat]

The American Vulture perhaps. It is basically black in color and serves an ecologically useful function.