Jefferson Morley, a staff writer for Salon, recently declared that the National Anthem, war memorials, and holidays that honor veterans are in fact “Neo-Confederate symbols” in disguise. In a Sunday article, Morley slammed America’s beloved "The Star Spangled Banner" as emblematic of America’s sins, juxtaposing it with America’s history of “legalized slavery," “Jim Crow laws and legalized lynchings,” and derided the “militaristic and racist overtones” in the song’s lyrics: