Posted on 04/09/2024 3:27:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County (CAAL) has called on officials to consider renaming the recently-collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, arguing that the author of the national anthem “demeaned black people” with the song's lyrics and that he had slaves.
Key, a Maryland native who wrote a poem that served as the basis for America’s national anthem the Star Spangled Banner, should have his name scrubbed from the new bridge when it is built, and that it should instead honor Parren J. Mitchell, the first black man from the state to be elected to the United States House of Representatives.
According to the Baltimore Banner, the CAAL voted unanimously on Monday to recommend the name change, going on to urge Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland General Assembly to take their concerns into consideration.
When asked whether changing the name was on the table, Moore explained that he was focused on analyzing the wreckage, ensuring commerce can continue in the port, and rebuilding the bridge.
"I think any other conversations along those lines, there will be time for that," he added, "but now's not the time."
In a Facebook post, the CAAL claimed that "taxpayer's dollars were being used to honor racism," and noted that it expected to face "backlash" for its push to change the name.
The group pointed out that Key owned slaves and claimed that "those who have examined the 'Star Spangled Banner' lyrics will 'discover' his disdain for Black people."
George Floyd Bridge.
I expected this noise as soon as I heard the name of that bridge. The only thing most these protesters know about Francis Scott Key is that somebody told them he was White.
Based on that. Pavlov’s Dogs began to bark and howl.
My money is on Harriet Tubman Bridge b/c she had a connection to Baltimore and ticks off the right boxes.
More erasure of American history.
Seis Amigos,or Seis Hombres for the dead road work crew.
Broke Back Bridge
FSK didn’t write the Black National Anthem.....
She of the underwater railroad.
Jean-Luc-Pierre already renamed it at her bridge collapse press briefing.
She called it the “Francis Scott King Bridge”.
George Floyd Bridge.
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LOL!
I am 100% in in renaming this bridge after a modern, meaningful black warrior.
The Saint Clarence Thomas Bridge
I am 100% in in renaming this bridge after a modern, meaningful black warrior.
The Saint Clarence Thomas Bridge
I am 100% in in renaming this bridge after a modern, meaningful black warrior.
The Saint Clarence Thomas Bridge
Or the Barack Obama bridge.
The Ben Carson bridge 🌉 works well too.
This is a good thing. If you are travelling to a city that is new to you, you now know where to buy your drugs.
There was absolutely no doubt this would happen, from day 1...
Plenty of deserving communists out there to get the honor...
Frederick Douglass would be worthy . He was born a slave on Maryland’s Eastern Shore .
I propose that if the bridge is renamed, it be after Frederick Hall ( or his alias William Williams)…an escaped MD slave that rejected British offers to slaves to revolt and turn against America as mercenaries and receive British freedom
hence Key’s anthem verse referencing the hirelings and slaves that fought with the British in the War of 1812…which is totally over the miniature IQs of the people that don’t or won’t grasp the historical fact of the mention of slaves in verse 3 of the anthem
Hall/Williams enlisted in the militia that fought at Ft McHenry and was mortally wounded in the battle that inspired the Star Spangled Banner. His role and legacy is scarcely known, and that he fought and died for American freedom while a slave
I'm OK with that. She was a Republican and a 2nd Amendment sister, so she ticks off the right boxes for mee too.
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