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Posted on 09/13/2016 3:31:42 PM PDT by PROCON
The self-righteous hindsight of the left exposes itself again as progressive writer Lawrence Ware suggests, “Put simply, we need a new national anthem…”
In an article published by The Root on September 12, Ware urged for the rewriting of the national anthem due to the “vicious legacy of who wrote this song and what it represents.” He referenced a Counterpunch article which argues that Francis Scott Key, the author of the national anthem, was a pro-slavery, black abusing, religious nut. To ask black people to stand for the national anthem, Counterpunch argued, is comparable to asking a Jewish person to stand for a song written by a Nazi.
The Root, Counterpunch, and other lefties have made the argument that the third stanza of “The Star Spangled Banner” clearly exemplifies Key’s disdain for black slaves. The last half of the stanza reads, “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.” However, contrary to what progressives will argue, Key is not referring to the death of slaves in general, but the British Corps of Colonial Marines, former slaves fighting for the British. He does not celebrate their deaths simply for being slaves, but because they were fighting on the side of the British during the War of 1812, also nicknamed the “second war of independence.” Thus, their loss meant an American victory.
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First the Confederate flag, now the American flag - and the anthem that goes with it, and, of course, the Constitution which is ‘just a piece of paper’ to hateful liberals. Country and Christian music are also targets. American culture methodically destroyed before our eyes. There’s only one way to fight back and that’s to elect Trump.
It is a waste of time for a progressive to understand history, they would rather ignore facts and make up something that fits their world view.
But that's not really relevant. Does what he wrote in the stanzas we don't sing really matter? In anything American that's 200 years old, you're bound to find a proslavery connection if you look hard enough for it. But it's often something we can just ignore.
The French aren't losing any sleep over the lines about drenching the furrows with "impure blood" that they actually do sing, so why should we worry about verses we don't know and never bothered with?
P.S. Where does this leave F[rancis] Scott [Key] Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? Do we have to get rid of that, too?
Do you remember Kate singing it at Philadelphia Flyer hockey games?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pZ1brENIjw
I love Lee Greenwood’s version of God Bless America. I do agree our anthem is difficult to sing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bauiDYchNQ
You mean this doesn’t stir feelings of nationhood and patriotism???
The NFL?
Knew this was coming...
I’d be happy with America The Beautiful. Amazing song - I still remember Ray Charles belting out a glorious rendition at the 1984 Republican National Convention.
In the movie ‘The Dish’ - they played the Hawaii-Five-O theme as the anthem. Funniest moment in the movie.
I like it, LV!
Well I'll agree he needs a new national anthem, so let's all join forces to help him find another country to go live in.
Apparently, today it is cool to be a fool!
Lawrence Ware is an Oklahoma State University Division of Institutional Diversity Fellow.
Eff him.
O thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and war’s desolation
Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!”
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
—Francis Scott Key
(obscure and rarely-used fourth verse)
Ware has that glowering “disagree with me and I’ll punch you out” look.
Anyway, I thought black people had their own `national anthem’, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. Oh, well.
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