Posted on 06/25/2020 4:20:30 AM PDT by C19fan
In an increasingly antiracist era when problematic iconography — ranging from Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to even the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car and country band Lady Antebellum’s name — is being reassessed, revised or retired, America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” seems to be striking a wrong note. Last week, protesters in San Francisco toppled a statue of the song’s composer, Francis Scott Key, a known slaveholder who once said that African-Americans were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” This week, Liana Morales, an Afro-Latinx student at New York’s Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at her virtual graduation ceremony, explaining to the Wall Street Journal, “With everything that’s happening, if I stand there and sing it, I’m being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color.” Instead, Morales performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn widely considered to be the “Black national anthem.”
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He was but one of a number of people like that. The Weather Underground once championed his group’s murders for taking it to the Capitalist Pigs in their own home and eating their food (to boot).
You forgot the X
When in Japan in the 90’s, I saw Shoko Asahara with an entourage of young, brainless acolytes, some with huge elephant heads over their own heads. Years later, he started killing people.
“I’ve always favored America The Beautiful”.
Mark Levin sometimes closes his radio program with a version by Ray Charles. A two-fer—not “knee-worthy”.
replace it with what.?
We are the world?
I vote for “Hail, Freedonia!”
How about we try the ole “bombs bursting in air” first?
It’s not just a song. It’s a symbol of this country. They hate this country and so want to eliminate this symbol.
I kind of agree. These people need their own nation with something more appropriate for them as an anthem. Some sort of split is going to happen.
They want America 2.0 (If they still call it ‘America’ that it)
New Flag
New Constitution
New Anthem
The Whole Works
This chick is in the documentary about Queen on Netflix. If I had known the twit had written this I would have fast forwarded past her fugly mug.
“Imagine” makes my ears bleed.
Every frickin’ time.
Since much of the country seems to have gone batsh*t crazy and I sometimes feel like I’m living in the world of “Idiocracy”, I suggest “Team America’s” theme song “America, Fu*k Yeah!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtJJC0nWs9s
Oh puhleeze
The Star Spangled Banner has been our national anthem for a long time....my country ‘Tis of thee has never been
Oh well, I thought CW-II was not quite here.
Try that, *sswipe liberals, and it’s on.
We’ve had enough of small minded low IQ losers who will never succeed at anything trying to wreck everything. You are going to see wrecks, all right.
Bring it.
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