The George Floyd riots have morphed from “justice looting” to the wholesale destruction of America history and culture. Having deemed everything about this country as racist, Black Lives Matter and their guilty white leftist subordinates have set their sights on our National Anthem. First to was Confederates, then it was Founding Fathers, then it was any white people including abolitionists, and now they have come for the Star Spangled Banner.
Yahoo! News reports:
In an increasingly antiracist era when problematic iconography — ranging from Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to even the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car and country band Lady Antebellum’s name — is being reassessed, revised or retired, America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” seems to be striking a wrong note.
Last week, protesters in San Francisco toppled a statue of the song’s composer, Francis Scott Key, a known slaveholder who once said that African Americans were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”
So, is it time for this country to dispense with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and adopt a new anthem with a less troubling history and a more inclusive message?
Get ready for a shock: leftists say “yes” it is time to get rid of our National Anthem:
“The 53-year-old in me says, we can’t change things that have existed forever. But then there are these young people who say that America needs to live up to its real creed And so, I do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem, because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women. We do it first because we knew what we were doing and we wanted to be sexist and racist. And now we do it under the guise of ‘legacy,’” said lefty scholar Daniel E. Walker.
So now the Star Spangled Banner is sexist and racist? What part?
“The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, who was literally born into a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland. He was a very well-to-do lawyer in Washington, D.C., and eventually became very close to President Andrew Jackson, who was the Donald Trump of his time, which means that there was a lot of hate and violence and division. At that time, there were attacks on Native Americans and Black folks — both free Black folks and folks who were slaves — and Francis Scott Key was very much a part of that,” said black activist Kevin Powell.
Andrew Jackson was a democrat and Donald Trump never killed Indians. Also Francis Scott Key was a lawyer who represented slaves seeking freedom. There are several flaws in this dude’s justification for ditching our National Anthem.
He went on to add this nonsense:
“The issue is not Black people’s patriotism. I mean, there’s very few folk that are as patriotic as African-Americans,” Powell said.
I think it’s fair to question the patriotism of radicals who are burning down our cities and destroying our history.
Since a handful of America-haters want to get rid of the Star Spangled Banner, what would they like to replace it with? Well…
So, if “The Star-Spangled Banner” goes the way of the Confederate flag and Gone With the Wind, what should America’s new national anthem be? Whatever it is, Walker says there should be a formal “vetting process” to make sure the next anthem doesn’t have a terrible past; Powell, for his part, suggests John Lennon’s “Imagine,” which he says is “the most beautiful, unifying, all-people, all-backgrounds-together kind of song you could have.”
But what about “Lift Every Voice and Sing”? That song, written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900, set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905, and first publicly performed as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday by Johnson’s brother John, was dubbed “the Negro national hymn” by the NAACP in 1919.
That sounds inclusive. Let’s get rid of a song that celebrates all of America and replace it with the “Negro national hymn” in a country that is only 13% black. Then again, maybe not.
If these leftists were successful in banishing the Star Spangled Banner, no one would be affected more than Colin Kaepernick. Without that song to kneel to and disrespect, people might notice that he’s a really terrible football player and then he’d be out of the NFL for sucking instead of being an anti-American hero.
