re: Is the National Anthem now racist too?

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Essentially he is FOS posturing to say he knows what was in Key's mind.

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Key never commented on that line, so no one truly knows. It seems like a logical stretch though that he referred to as impressment because it requires a modern definition of slavery. There is a Colonial Marine interpretation that could just be "Key thought they were traitors to America and rejoiced in traitors dying a traitor's death"

Referring to them as slaves would have been expected from someone from Maryland in early 1800s


The idea that he is referring to impressment seems unlikely given Key's experience with Colonial Marines, the large number of CMs present, the large number vs impressed soldiers and that it logically doesn't make sense referring to impressed soldiers

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Is the National Anthem now racist too? by crap4brain

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Well. They think America is racist so.........

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People like you are what's wrong with this country. You hear or read someone who is as equally as uninformed as you are, say or tweet something false - that the national anthem of your own country "mentions killing escaped slaves" - and you take it as fact and then promote the lie yourself.

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Bitch you don't know me. I asked for a citation. Which is not unfounded on a sute full of birther moronic Trump voters.

You cant scratch your balls these days without it being racist.

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Is speech that is a direct attack on The Constitution protected?

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Yes, to the utmost


And how is attacking the Star Spangle Banner anything like attacking the Constitution?

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Though the well-known first verse, “in which a young man peers into a foggy and rain-soaked dawn to find out whether his country has been conquered in battle, is urgent, open-hearted and honest,” the third verse all but contradicts any meaning of a “land of the free” and “home of the brave” (emphasis mine):

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.

The War of 1812 was caused, among other things, by Great Britain’s attempt to restrict U.S. trade and America’s desire to expand its northern territory by annexing Canada. By 1810, more than 15 percent of the U.S. population was enslaved, and British forces recruited escaped slaves to fight for the slaves’ freedom against the American militia. This unit, referred to as the Colonial Marines, was part of the British forces that overran Washington, D.C., in 1814 and set fire to the White House.

So when Key references the “foul footstep’s” of the “hireling and slave” who “no refuge could save” from “the gloom of the grave” in the third verse, he’s referring to the killing of Colonial Marines. As noted by The Rootpolitical editor Jason Johnson, “TheStar-Spangled Banner is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.”

Following the War of 1812, the Treaty of Ghent was signed, with the United States ordering the return of “such slaves as may be in your control, belonging to any inhabitant or citizen of the United States.” The British refused.

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This nation was founded on some ebil shite.

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Name a nation that wasn't founded on "ebil shite"

Building nations is never pretty because you have to deal with the nation that was there before you.

The history of every successful people on this planet is one of bloodshed and rape. Fire and sword.

You lily-livered pantywaists can wring your purses in disgust at the fact that people used to be much harder in the past, but you are merely examples of the weak types that will be be crushed if a strong boot ever comes your way.

false flag operation

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Only the state of pennsylvania even started out with non property owners being able to vote.
Your common white worker could not vote in most states.
Celebrate that too

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Name one single country that ever started out with universal suffrage