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."
What Francis Scott Key bridge it’s destroyed
As predictable as the sun rising in the east.
How’s about we change the title of the far-left activists to “deceased”?
Not this sh*t again. Yes, the third verse contains the word “slave”. No, there is no racial connotation whatsoever in that verse, nor in the entire song.
Uh, no, CAAL. You guys already got Thurgood Marshall Airport. MLK Boulevard.
NO!
I warned ppl here months along the Democrats were priming Wes Moore for 2028.
lol
I KNEW IT!
now wait until the environmental nuts get involved!
Why not “The George Floyd Fentanyl Memorial Bridge”? Or maybe the “George Floyd Home Invader Bridge”? How about the “I Can’t Breathe Bridge”?
I like that idea.
I called it! The P Diddy bridge in rhe works.
Did they have any problem with it before it collapsed? I guess now all the bridges will be scrutinized
Is the creation greater than the creator?
If Francis Scott Key must go, so too must his anthem.
Getting rid of the national anthem, and the U.S. flag, is what this is about.
I think Freepers were predicting that before the sun had risen that morning.
Funny how these far left lobbies to have no problem with the fact that Anderson Cooper’s ancestor owned slaves.
There is a Key Bridge over the Potomac in Washington, D.C. (Georgetown), or there used to be. Are they going to change its name, or have they already.
There’s no way this new bridge keeps its old name.
If they change the name of it on paper, but everyone continues to call it the Francis Scott Key Bridge and refuses to ever acknowledge the other name when brought up into conversation (“You mean the Francis Scott Key bridge?”), then what name is it called?
This is what should be the response whenever this happens to anything they want to rename this way. Keep using the original name and refuse to ever acknowledge the other name they want you to use.
Not unexpected. They already removed the name of a historic and honorable ship that fought in WWII and which I served on before going to Vietnam. See my home page for details.
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