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."
https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5700/sc5768/pdf/blacksoldier.pdf
“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.”
Key was writing a poem not only about the events of the naval bombardment of Ft McHenry, but also the failed British landing force and the Battle of North Point. The Battle of North Point wiped out a British led land force intended to attack Baltimore. Thus the “foul footsteps pollution”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_North_Point
WAKANDA VIRTUAL BRIDGE
Imaginary. Like White Privilege
Rodney King Bridge!
Here it comes.
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No FReeper reading here should forget that Maryland’s so called Republian governor Hogan (who thinks he’s powerbroker for President) had the statue memorializing Roger B. Taney Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court removed from the campus of Maryland’s State House. All because of a Court decision. Taney was a very bright jurist and lawyer for his day.
Of course, the Frederick Douglas Bridge.
The Star Spangled Banner says “no refuge shall save the hireling and the slave.” It means slave literally, as the British recruited slaves into their military with promises of freedom. The British did the same in the Revolutionary War and of course the Union in the Civil War.
here we go again the roaches have come out from hiding
Yes, that pathetic criminal who died of a drug overdose. Could be worse, how about the Biden bridge? Perhaps they can add the train tracks so little “Joey” can ride.
1. Patrice Lamumba
2. Winnie Mandela
3. Malcolm X
4. Cloward-Piven
5. Rev Al Sharpton
6. Rev Jesse Jackson
7. John A. Walker Jr.
8. Mikhail Gorbachev
The OJ Simpson Memorial Bridge. What could be more appropriate than naming a replacement bridge after a famous acquitted murderer, wife abuser, sport hero, movie star and Black Cultural icon.
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