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NAACP seeks to remove 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as anthem

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The California chapter of the NAACP passed resolutions at its state conference last month that push for the removal of The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem and aim to help former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sign with another NFL team, as first reported by The Sacramento Bee.

 

The newspaper reported Tuesday that the group has started circulating copies of the resolutions among legislative offices in California and will seek support from state lawmakers when they return to the capitol in January.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/11/09/california-naacp-seeks-remove-the-star-spangled-banner-anthem-supports-colin-kaepernick-nfl-protests/848420001/

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These fockin people need to pipe down. Way overstepping at this point.

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Have you ever seen all the verses of the song? At one point, the British gave slaves the opportunity to fight with them for actual freedom. From the Root:

 

"The story, as most of us are told, is that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 and wrote this poem while watching the American troops battle back the invading British in Baltimore. That—as is the case with 99 percent of history that is taught in public schools and regurgitated by the mainstream press—is less than half the story.

To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.

Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.

All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1815, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.

A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:

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 bra
ve.

In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-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. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem."

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The Root is an English-language American online magazine of African-American culture

 

 

Now that's certainly an unbiased site you are getting your information from.

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There are crazy people in all walks of life. No use getting riled up by them anymore.

 

Just focus on the positive side of life.

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The Root is an English-language American online magazine of African-American culture

 

 

Now that's certainly an unbiased site you are getting your information from.

 

Can you dispute the contents of the post?

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This song is one of the huge problems in the colored community . If we get rid of it everything will be great down in the hood. Schools will

Improve, crime will plummet and black fathers will provide and be in their children's lives. Let's do it!

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This song is one of the huge problems in the colored community . If we get rid of it everything will be great down in the hood. Schools will

Improve, crime will plummet and black fathers will provide and be in their children's lives. Let's do it!

Finally, someone who gets it!

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History is there for us to remember it and learn from it. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

 

 

Also, don't negotiate with terrorists.

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This song is one of the huge problems in the colored community . If we get rid of it everything will be great down in the hood. Schools will

Improve, crime will plummet and black fathers will provide and be in their children's lives. Let's do it!

the removal of the dukes of hazards car and those statues has had a great impact already. Forward, together!

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the removal of the dukes of hazards car and those statues has had a great impact already. Forward, together!

Let's not forget that there hasn't been any police issues in Baltimore since Freddy Grey and the riots. Things are rapidly improving there in the past few years.

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This song is one of the huge problems in the colored community . If we get rid of it everything will be great down in the hood. Schools will

Improve, crime will plummet and black fathers will provide and be in their children's lives. Let's do it!

Political Correctness is deception in pretty packaging

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Right back atcha, doosh pickle. Seeya

Doosh pickle...hmmm...Actually a good one :thumbsup:

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Can you dispute the contents of the post?

Well, I read the first sentence and after you falsely claimed that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on board the British ship that day, I figured the rest of wall of text was probably more ignorant character assassination bullsh*t and so I didn't want read any more.

 

Key was some other guy's lawyer and was a guest of the British negotiating the other guy's release. There's probably more lies and disinformation in there, I just didn't get any further in.

 

And maybe you didn't read it yourself, with those hyper-links in there, it sure looks like you cut and pasted it from some dummy whose knowledge level isn't sufficient to fool a guy with an BA in History from open-admission Wayne State University posts on a low rent fantasy football message board and has likely forgotten 90% of the stuff he learned in class twenty years ago.

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Well, I read the first sentence and after you falsely claimed that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on board the British ship that day, I figured the rest of wall of text was probably more ignorant character assassination bullsh*t and so I didn't want read any more.

 

Key was some other guy's lawyer and was a guest of the British negotiating the other guy's release. There's probably more lies and disinformation in there, I just didn't get any further in.

 

And maybe you didn't read it yourself, with those hyper-links in there, it sure looks like you cut and pasted it from some dummy whose knowledge level isn't sufficient to fool a guy with an BA in History from open-admission Wayne State University posts on a low rent fantasy football message board and has likely forgotten 90% of the stuff he learned in class twenty years ago.

Well, I didn't even read the first sentence of your post....err..I guess I did :doh:

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In 1812, the young America experiment was on the brink of destruction and democracy being snuffed out. Washington DC had just been sacked, the capital and White House destroyed. President Madison's wife had fled, making a point to save the portrait of George Washington that would later serve as the template for his image on the one dollar bill.

 

It was the worst moment in all US history.

 

The Brits were on their way north from DC to do lay waste to Baltimore. The Brits have these rockets aboard their ships with a range further than those of the cannons at Ft. McHenry. So the Brits anchored their ships in bay outside Ft. McHenry and shelled the American position all night, safely out of range of any return fire. And they shelled and shelled, raining munitions on the Americans all night.

 

Fortunately, the accuracy on those things was poor or all those brave men fortified in that fort who had endured the shelling all night would have been killed off which may, in turn, well have been the end of the country.

 

Now, at this time Francis Scott Key is a guest aboard the British ships. He's a lawyer negotiating the release of war prisoners and also an amateur poet. So at the dawn's early light, he goes on deck and sees the massive, torn, shelled US flag at Ft. McHenry still flapping defiantly in the wind and is just filled with pride and love. Guys with more integrity in their little toe clippings than Colon Kaepernick has in his entire body had held that position all night, the flag was still there, if the Brits wanted to sack Baltimore, they'd have to move in closer to do so.

 

So Key is inspired and writes a poem to memorialize the occasion.

 

Then two hundred years later, some of us remember their sacrifice, still take these things seriously that they fought for and stood for and honor the soldiers dug in at Ft. McHenry that night. Others, sh*tbags like Colon Kaepernick kneels for the Ft. McHenry flag, the California NAACP trashes the song to commemorate it, and phillygrrl08 cut and pastes a hit piece on Key into a low rent Fantasy Football Message board.

 

Fock off. Fock off and Fock off. ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮ ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮ ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮

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Then two hundred years later, some of us remember their sacrifice, still take these things seriously that they fought for and stood for and honor the soldiers dug in at Ft. McHenry that night. Others, sh*tbags like Colon Kaepernick kneels for the Ft. McHenry flag, the California NAACP trashes the song to commemorate it, and phillygrrl08 cut and pastes a hit piece on Key into a low rent Fantasy Football Message board.

Fock off. Fock off and Fock off. ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮ ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮ ╭∩╮(Ο_Ο)╭∩╮

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Mark Twain

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America is shedding its past so when the future proves to be a cruel place, no evidence of a better past will exist.

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America is shedding its past so when the future proves to be a cruel place, no evidence of a better past will exist.

This.

 

It is exactly why Progressives still attack Reagan and his accomplishments to this day. If Reagan's fiscal and tax-cutting policies would be recognized for the power they give the people, Government bloat would be dealt a permanent blow, and we would begin the course to recapture what it is our Founders created for us.

 

Can't have that.

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