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ORIGINAL: Danemora

*ANNOUNCER VOICE AT LOCAL SPORTING EVENT*

"Please rise and remove your hats as we play the 300+ officially recognized National Anthems of the United States of America"

All I can say, Tamaka...is my bony 44-year-old ass cant make it through one sporting event with just the SSB. I sure as shit am not going to sit for 5 hours of National Anthems that will make every US citizen feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

P.S. we can change the National Anthem to "Kumbayah" and it still wont change the history of the birth of the US

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
African Americans blame white Americans, and so on.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
But lets not talk about hip hop and rap lyrics that celebrate violence, murder, domestic abuse....

Oh hell no, to do that would be racist.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: Danemora

*ANNOUNCER VOICE AT LOCAL SPORTING EVENT*

"Please rise and remove your hats as we play the 300+ officially recognized National Anthems of the United States of America"

All I can say, Tamaka...is my bony 44-year-old ass cant make it through one sporting event with just the SSB. I sure as shit am not going to sit for 5 hours of National Anthems that will make every US citizen feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

P.S. we can change the National Anthem to "Kumbayah" and it still wont change the history of the birth of the US

Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm working this side of the street with the "Deep Announcer Voice* schtick![:D]



Michael

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ORIGINAL: Danemora

It was in homage to you, DS 😊 Imitation being flattery and all that good jazz

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

The majority of Confederate "hero" statues, along with renaming public schools and roads,, happened in the 1950's, and was a racist backlash to the Civil Rights Movement.

I don't see anything racist in the lyrics of our National Anthem. And its history, with the lyrics referring to kicking British ass in 1814, doesn't seem racially motivated either.

Yet Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, so there may very well be reason for people of color to take issue with the song directly.

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

Or it was naming of roads and schools for revered persons from history during the boom times after World War II. It is a very vocal minority that objects to heroes out of the past having monuments. One of the monuments that has been targeted for hate in my local area is a monument to those that fell in war going back to the Creek War and continuing to those fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, because it shows a Confederate soldier in the entrance facade; it is supposedly racist.

The only thing that could construe the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner as being racist is to ignore the sentiments that created the Magna Carta and decide that ALL references to Freemen just HAS to be about African slaves in the United States. Misconstrued language due to lack of historical context and knowledge of history in other words.

Francis Scott Key's paean to the spirit of freedom in all mankind as exemplified by the holding fast at Fort McHenry despite horrid bombarding by the British Navy is still a symbol of the fight for freedom no matter what as small minded minority decides to try and modify history to mean. BTW, Fort McHenry is a very interesting place to tour if you want a feel for things back when the U.S. was young.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

Oh Jesus man, just grow the fuck up.