California’s NAACP is pushing for state lawmakers to support a campaign to remove “The Star Spangled Banner” as the country’s national anthem.
The group says the song, which has been a point of controversy in the NFL, is “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon,” The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday.
The NAACP’s California chapter last week reportedly sent out two resolutions, which had been passed at the organizations state conference last month.
One of the resolutions was to support the removal of the anthem, while the other is an effort to get the NFL to fit former player Colin Kaepernick onto a team.
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Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, was the first NFL player to kneel during the national anthem, which is typically played before games.
“Trump got in the middle of it. He blew it out of proportion,” Huffman said of the president, who labeled players who kneel as a “son of a b—h” during an Alabama rally.
The U.S. Congress should adopt a new national anthem that’s not “another song that disenfranchises part of the American population,” Huffman said.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” has been the nation’s anthem since 1931, when President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional act making it the song of the United States.
I have included below the entire lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. I suppose I am illiterate because I do not find anything racist, pro-slavery or anti-black in those lyrics. It uses the word slave in one verse but does not condone slavery in that verse. If further refers to freemen in one verse, but every citizen of this country is a freeman today. So, these folks need to put their big boy pants on!!!! Could someone please point out to me where the “racist, pro-slavery, anti-black” portions are?
“Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the starspangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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:
And the starspangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the starspangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
They give offense at the phrase:
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:”
Francis Scott Key had a hardon for dead Hessians which these historically illiterate lower apes think were black because no one else was ever pressed into military service – especially not whitey!
Should you ever find yourself in a debate, formal or otherwise, with one of these drooling idiots, be sure to make much of their utter lack of education. Be downright cruel. Construct a makeshift dunce cap if you’re feeling feisty. We must publicly shame these retards as often as possible.
Perhaps if we change the racist line to something more relevant to the soul bros.
From:
Jose can you see by the dawn’s early light
To:
Jay Z can you see by the cop car’s spot light
The NEW CA Anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfj6MwvISMo
Note: I was going to use a version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot, but upon reflection, the above is more appropriate for the NAACP
The nfl could fit keppershit on a team if he was a good quarterback, and not an idiotic shit starter. As for the naacp, what a buncha racist clowns.
Not the brightest bulb of an organization. Just make things up and call it whatever you want. Do we have a national mascot?
When they leave the union they make their own.
They all need to go back to Africa.
I’d prefer to get rid of blacks. Problem solved.
I wonder who is pulling NAACP’s strings.