Response to kpete (Original post)Fri Sep 2, 2016, 11:38 PM
onenote (26,898 posts)
47. And now that you know that your post is inaccurate you stay silent.
Hmmmmmm.....
Response to onenote (Reply #47)Sat Sep 3, 2016, 11:29 AM
B2G (6,970 posts)
55. KPete only posts, never discusses his posts.
It's easier that way.
Does kp post anything besides memes circulating on Facebook? Actually responding would require something like thinking.
1.) Except to a victimologist, the phrase, in context, is obviously metaphor, not a call for slaves to be killed (if it were, why no recorded event of slaves being slaughtered, and how were there still slaves 50 years later?).
2.) Francis Scott Key was an ardent supporter of slavery, to the extent of prosecuting (Key was a lawyer and a DA) a relative of an Abolitionist publisher for possessing Abolitionist literature. Whether Key was a racist or just supported the institution of slavery, is an interesting question. As a young adult, Key owned about a half dozen slaves, but later came to manumit (= legally free) them. That, to me, seems a rather odd thing for a racist to do.