Posted on 11/09/2017 2:32:03 PM PST by drewh
WASHINGTON — Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis says he sees ‘nothing wrong’ with the California ACLU’s effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner as the country’s national anthem.
“Well, you know, one of the things about the Constitution that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place and there is room to change,” he told TheDC Thursday.
Alice Huffman, president of the California chapter of the NAACP, declared the anthem to be “racist” and that it “doesn’t represent our community. It’s anti-black people,” SFGate.com, reported Wednesday. The NAACP is hoping for lawmakers to change it.
Davis, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus went on to say, “Intellectually, if people continue to pursue this nation to become perfected, then I see nothing wrong with that. I mean it was designed, I think they said, to form a more perfect union.”
He added, “They didn’t say that it was perfect at the time, but they did say that we could continue to pursue perfection and if they’re individuals who think that we can make the national anthem more perfect in terms of the goals and objectives of this country then I say so be it.”
Fellow CBC member Democratic Missouri Rep. Lacy Clay said he would have to examine which part of the anthem the NAACP takes issue with, but he told TheDC, “They have a right to object to any stances in the national anthem that they find objectionable and racist.”
The NAACP referenced the anthem’s third verse, which is seldom sung and includes the line, “no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
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A new national anthem? Okay, we’ll just update “Oh say can see” with “Whoomp! There it is.” Problem solved.
In ten years we will have a new National Anthem. This is how it starts, they never lose in the long run.
Well, if it is changed to “God Bless America” ...
How about:
“I Am My Own Grampa”
It’a catchy tune.
Here's the New National Anthem of all the nut-bags from Congress (including Danny D. and the CBC), all other members of the Demonic-rat party, all RINOS (including Mitch the Turtle-Twitch McConnell), the kneeling nincompoops from the NFL, the Know-Nothings from the NAACP, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood, ex-president B-O, Jerkoff Jesse Jackson, the numbskulls from the mainstream media and the entertainment world, and all the Nasty Women from NOW:
How about Barack Obama...mmm mmm
A black women, huge Hillary supporter, brought this up Today at work questioning: “Have these people lost their minds?”
=> the longer the leftardia pendulum swings to the left, the better the the mid terms look!
Stay out of the way!
Where do these people keep coming from?
God Bless America would make a great national anthem. I’m sure everyone will agree.
For reference and discussion purposes, here is the entire third stanza:
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
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.”
Contextually, the stanza is a continuation of the narrative of the preceding two stanzas and the band being referenced is the British naval and ground forces come to bombard and seize Fort McHenry. The reference to slaves is being interpreted by these offended geniuses of the Left as a reference to black slaves. But the terms “hireling and slave” were frequently applied during this period to foreign mercenaries and persons impressed into British military service. You may recall that impressment of US sailors on the high seas by British warships was one of the primary reasons for the War of 1812 to begin with. Not every reference to “slave” refers to blacks in bondage.
If the Democrats think they are disliked now, just see what happens if they take up this imbecilic line of “reasoning.”
“Perhaps Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis would prefer “Blueberry Hill.””
A, He’s a schwarze communist from shitcago.
B. What else do you need to know?
Democrats - The anti-America party.
“Whites” are colored also.
No person is the color white or black. Zero.
Dafuq? It has *ick-all to do with Blacks or slavery, it's about a battle during the War of 1812. This is as randomly ridiculous as saying the Smurfs Theme Song is racist against Koreans.
“Can’t we please just split the country and let them have their own place to make whatever works for them?”
You mean like splitting The Union so the Confederates could have their own place to make what works for them?
You mean like splitting the American West with various reservations so that Native Americans could have their own place to make whatever works for them?
You mean like splitting Berlin so the East Germans could have their own place to make whatever works for them?
You mean like splitting Korea so the Norks could have their own place to make what works for them?
You mean like splitting Israel so the Palestinians can have their own place to make whatever works for them?
Because all of THOSE ideas just worked SO WELL, didn’t they.
>> the California ACLU’s effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner
Obsolete revolutionaries hitching a ride into a brick wall.
It says the word SLAVE in it!!! It must be bad! No matter the context!!!!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' 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.
Of course, a little reading comprehension might dissuade one from using the Race Card here... but apparently that is too much to ask of a Dem.
(According to British historian Robin Blackburn (writing in 1988), the words "the hireling and slave" allude to the thousands of ex-slaves in the British ranks organised as the Corps of Colonial Marines (in the War of 1812), who had been liberated by the British and demanded to be placed in the battle line "where they might expect to meet their former masters." (when only 4% of Americans owned slaves)
I’ve always liked “Stars & Stripes Forever” better.
OTOH, I’d change it to something by Wagner...
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