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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ENOUGH!
“In an increasingly antiracist era when problematic iconography”
I stopped reading right there. The “antiracists” are the racists. Anything they do not like is racist. They used the death of a thug as their poster boy to rally all the anti-American racists in this nation which includes Antifa.
At least Asahara got his worthless life ended by a hangman’s rope. Too bad Manson was allowed to die of old age.
liberals never take that advice. It’s too bad.
Just a mere 90 years ago. Does anyone think such a change has anything to do with the anthem itself? This is just another brick in the wall that must be dismantled to transform the country into a socialist utopia. The “land of the free and the home of the brave” must be erased from our history.
Actually hail Columbia may be perfect. Columbia is another name for Libertas which is another name for Astarte which is another name for Simeramus the Mother and wife of Nimrod and the beginning of Pagan belief at Babel.
Seems like a know-nothing.
Did they ask Mick Rock anything in that doc?
Intersectionalist bingo. Libs win (stupid games, stupid prizes) by accretions to themselves as many victim-labels as possible.
*accreting
Once you start negotiating, you have lost. I don’t accept the premise that our national anthem needs to be replaced.
How did you get out of hillary's purse?
I LOVE THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
It shows power and purpose. Besides the music is great.
Jose can you see......
LOL, I”M A RACIST! Oops, wrong color, wrong day.
As Rush would say, pointing out absurdity by being absurd.
I’ve always been partial to “Back In the USA” by Chuck Berry.
“America F Yeah!”
Do did Darwin and Sanger.
Don’t give’em ideas!
The Star-Spangled Banner is not just some songwriter song but it was written in the passion of the moment when brave Americans resisted an imperial army. The circumstances of its writing is what makes it so special and no simple ditty can ever replace it.
Lincoln said similar things to what Key said.
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