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The Root: We Need a New National Anthem
newsbusters.org ^ | Sep. 13, 2016 | Callista Ring

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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To: PROCON
Mohamed Francis Scott Key, the author of the national anthem, Koran was a pro-slavery, black abusing, religious nut.
41 posted on 09/13/2016 4:31:46 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: PROCON

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.


42 posted on 09/13/2016 4:32:07 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: PROCON

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.


43 posted on 09/13/2016 4:35:00 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: PROCON; rockrr
Key's attitude towards slavery was complicated. He was a slaveowner, but favored gradual emancipation and the resettlement of freed slaves in Africa. Until he didn't, and turned against the growing abolitionist movement.

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?

44 posted on 09/13/2016 4:35:53 PM PDT by x
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To: PROCON; Ruy Dias de Bivar

Do you remember Kate singing it at Philadelphia Flyer hockey games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pZ1brENIjw


45 posted on 09/13/2016 4:35:54 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: SkyDancer

I love Lee Greenwood’s version of God Bless America. I do agree our anthem is difficult to sing.


46 posted on 09/13/2016 4:37:00 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: yarddog

oh say can you see! ohh say can you seee!

47 posted on 09/13/2016 4:38:27 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bauiDYchNQ

You mean this doesn’t stir feelings of nationhood and patriotism???


48 posted on 09/13/2016 4:38:38 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The NFL?


49 posted on 09/13/2016 4:43:06 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: PROCON

Knew this was coming...


50 posted on 09/13/2016 4:43:23 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: PROCON

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.


51 posted on 09/13/2016 4:46:41 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: PROCON

In the movie ‘The Dish’ - they played the Hawaii-Five-O theme as the anthem. Funniest moment in the movie.


52 posted on 09/13/2016 4:51:19 PM PDT by avkillick
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To: PROCON
OK ....


53 posted on 09/13/2016 4:52:03 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

I like it, LV!


54 posted on 09/13/2016 4:55:09 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

Lawrence Ware

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.

55 posted on 09/13/2016 4:56:27 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: PROCON

Apparently, today it is cool to be a fool!


56 posted on 09/13/2016 4:57:14 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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To: Boston Blackie

Lawrence Ware is an Oklahoma State University Division of Institutional Diversity Fellow.


57 posted on 09/13/2016 4:57:57 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
Another anti-American punk looking for his 15 minutes of fame.

Eff him.

58 posted on 09/13/2016 5:00:20 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

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)


59 posted on 09/13/2016 5:12:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. (standing ovation) --Donald Trump)
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To: Robert DeLong

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.


60 posted on 09/13/2016 5:13:53 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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