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Civil rights groups call for collapsed Baltimore bridge to be renamed when it's rebuilt because legacy of national anthem author Francis Scott Key is 'clouded with racism accusations'
Dailymail ^ | April 09, 2024 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo

Posted on 04/10/2024 9:17:34 AM PDT by backpacker_c

Civil rights groups are calling for the collapsed Baltimore bridge to be renamed when it's rebuilt, citing accusations of racism against national anthem author Francis Scott Key.

Leaders argued that the The Star-Spangled Banner author -who the collapsed bridge was named after - was a slave owner who wrote lyrics that scholars have said 'demeaned black people.'

They have asked for the bridge to be renamed after late congressman Parren J Mitchel, the first black man from Maryland elected to the US House of Representatives.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: bridge; francisscottkey; fsknameracist; makeitracist
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To: M Kehoe

Call it the Spiro T. Agnew Bridgeway.

But Baltimore and Maryland have had an abundance of corrupt politicians to choose from.


41 posted on 04/10/2024 10:03:19 AM PDT by x
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To: Tommy Revolts

I was seeing calls for this within a couple hours of the bridge collapse


42 posted on 04/10/2024 10:04:07 AM PDT by digger48
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To: backpacker_c

So now you know why they knocked the bridge down.


43 posted on 04/10/2024 10:05:05 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: backpacker_c

How about the Joseph Stalin Memorial Bridge to honor the modern Democrat Party?


44 posted on 04/10/2024 10:12:14 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

Many, many Black People demean themselves, Chicago alone has millions.


45 posted on 04/10/2024 10:14:32 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: backpacker_c

bowing to this demand like other ones is a small victory for these commiecrats. they are always the first to chime in their “ needs”.
bring it to a vote in Maryland.


46 posted on 04/10/2024 10:16:29 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN đź’ŽGOING GETS TOUGH KEEP GOINGđź’Ž IfIT DOESNT KiILL yOU I wil MAKE YOU STRONGERđź’Ž)
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To: Red Badger
I know this was predicted on FR when the story broke, so no one at FR will be surprised.
47 posted on 04/10/2024 10:16:39 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ropes and vines, for that authentic African experience. . . (evil grin)


48 posted on 04/10/2024 10:16:49 AM PDT by Salgak
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To: backpacker_c

There is one mention of “slave” in “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and I believe it refers to some Maryland slaves who escaped and tried to board British ships during the War of 1812. Some were caught and returned to slavery. Others were promised emancipation by the British if they took up arms on the British side. Yeah, we know there were slaves then — a legacy of our British colonial past. The ones Key mentions fought on the side of the enemy of the United States. One can hardly expect that he would be charitable toward them. There is also mention of “hirelings” — would they have been mercenaries? Key is uncharitable toward both, saying they wouldn’t be saved “from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”


49 posted on 04/10/2024 10:29:23 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: backpacker_c

The reason Black Africans were enslaved by other Black Africans is because they were inferior, unequal.

That fact is irrelevant to the naming of a bridge for a truly famous nonblack American


50 posted on 04/10/2024 10:33:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: backpacker_c

Bad enough to have an aircraft carrier named “Doris”
was he ever a president?


51 posted on 04/10/2024 10:39:53 AM PDT by rellic
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To: backpacker_c

We knew this was coming on Day 1. Of course they’re gonna do it. We mean, piss on tue guy that wrote our national anthem. That bastard was around when there was slavery and stuff! 🤬


52 posted on 04/10/2024 10:50:15 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: backpacker_c

(insert hilarious meme here)


53 posted on 04/10/2024 11:10:39 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I was going to suggest if they did replace it that they should build it out of logs as a celebratory retro salute back to the days of slavery.

Don’t look now, but... we.... WCCs...white Conservative Christians are the new slaves. All that’s needed is for them to complete the building of their new plantations (camps).


54 posted on 04/10/2024 2:27:08 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: backpacker_c

The Clarence Thomas Bridge


55 posted on 04/10/2024 2:36:04 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Danie_2023

After the bridge “collapsed” as a ship was passing under it according to the fake news “media”, some Messican ambassador was whining that it was HIS PEOPLE who died. Then the burrito had the nerve to say, “That’s why “latinos” will rebuild it. A few days later I read an article in which the reporter was interviewing some Mexican construction guys. It was unanimous, “We AREN’T going to build it because it’s too dangerous”. I love it.


56 posted on 04/10/2024 4:02:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“After the bridge “collapsed” as a ship was passing under it according to the fake news “media”, some Messican ambassador was whining that it was HIS PEOPLE who died. Then the burrito had the nerve to say, “That’s why “latinos” will rebuild it. A few days later I read an article in which the reporter was interviewing some Mexican construction guys. It was unanimous, “We AREN’T going to build it because it’s too dangerous”. I love it.”

And that right there pretty much sums up “American exceptionalism”. It took mostly whitey Europeans with strong work ethics and a fearless, courageous character ... that cared enough to risk danger, work harder and struggle longer in order to build a better place than what they came from... ie to make America what it is today.

Most (not all) of these idiots coming here intend to suck off of the US taxpayer teat and couldn’t care less about making this nation better than where they’re from. They’re parasites. Parasites replacing the host, in fact. It’s never gonna work towards anything but killing the host. But then, since when has the Marxist left (commies) ever had the intelligence enough to figure out that obvious end result... much less to care about it. Look at the dismal history of communism and the lives of the people they’ve enslaved.

And then there are the ones ‘within’ that hate America and are deliberately working and seeking to destroy us with the help of all these “newcomer” parasites. There needs to be an IRL reckoning. Normally I would say there will be... but these days I have my doubts.


57 posted on 04/10/2024 6:41:41 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: backpacker_c

How about renaming the bridge, “FU Civil Rights Leaders Bridge?”


58 posted on 04/10/2024 6:47:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: njmaugbill

Only if you promise not to rebuild it, and leave the original approaches standing in the river.


59 posted on 04/10/2024 6:51:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

Also, the Carol Swain Bridge or the Robert Woodson Bridge.

I also think the Thomas Sowell Bridge has a nice ring to it.

Better yet, the Walter Williams Bridge, since he passed in 2020.


60 posted on 04/10/2024 6:53:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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