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NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« on: September 27, 2017, 03:06:33 PM »
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the racism of the star-spangled banner
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“The Star-Spangled Banner,” Americans hazily remember, was written by Francis Scott Key about the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. But we don’t ever talk about how the War of 1812 was a war of aggression that began with an attempt by the U.S. to grab Canada from the British Empire. However, we’d wildly overestimated the strength of the U.S. military. By the time of the Battle of Fort McHenry in 1814, the British had counterattacked and overrun Washington, D.C., setting fire to the White House.

And one of the key tactics behind the British military’s success was its active recruitment of American slaves. As a detailed 2014 article in Harper’s explains, the orders given to the Royal Navy’s Admiral Sir George Cockburn read:
Let the landings you make be more for the protection of the desertion of the Black Population than with a view to any other advantage. … The great point to be attained is the cordial Support of the Black population. With them properly armed & backed with 20,000 British Troops, Mr. Madison will be hurled from his throne.

Whole families found their way to the ships of the British, who accepted everyone and pledged no one would be given back to their “owners.” Adult men were trained to create a regiment called the Colonial Marines, who participated in many of the most important battles, including the August 1814 raid on Washington.

Then on the night of September 13, 1814, the British bombarded Fort McHenry. Key, seeing the fort’s flag the next morning, was inspired to write the lyrics for “The Star-Spangled Banner.” So when Key penned “No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,” he was taking great satisfaction in the death of slaves who’d freed themselves. His perspective may have been affected by the fact he owned several slaves himself.

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https://theintercept.com/2016/08/28/colin-kaepernick-is-righter-than-you-know-the-national-anthem-is-a-celebration-of-slavery/


http://www.theroot.com/star-spangled-bigotry-the-hidden-racist-history-of-the-1790855893


Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" showing spelling and punctuation
from Francis Scott Key's manuscript in th
e Maryland Historical Society collection.
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright
stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that
our flag was still there,
O 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 star-spangled banner - O 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 wash'd out thei
r 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 banne
r in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath ma
de and preserv'd 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 star-spangled banne
r in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


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guillaumeb (15,830 posts)
1. An echo of the racism of the founders of the country.

The Canadian anthem is also filled with violent images.

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niyad (59,176 posts)
2. sadly true

Oh good Christ. Their stupidity knows no bounds  :thatsright:

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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2017, 03:24:33 PM »
An unbowdlerized version of the French national anthem, for comparison:

Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody banner is raised, (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They're coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your women!

To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!

What does this horde of slaves,
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings want?
For whom are these vile chains,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What fury it must arouse!
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!

To arms, citizens...

What! Foreign cohorts
Would make the law in our homes!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Great God! By chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would have themselves
The masters of our destinies!

To arms, citizens...

Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their reward! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you
If they fall, our young heroes,
The earth will produce new ones,
Ready to fight against you!

To arms, citizens...

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare those sorry victims,
Who arm against us with regret. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
These accomplices of Bouillé,
All these tigers who, mercilessly,
Rip their mother's breast!

To arms, citizens...

Sacred love of the Fatherland,
Lead, support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished Liberty,
Fight with thy defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, may victory
Hurry to thy manly accents,
May thy expiring enemies,
See thy triumph and our glory!

To arms, citizens...
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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2017, 03:57:03 PM »
Good heavens, what a horrible text of "The Defense of Fort McHenry"! Here's a cleaned up text of the third verse, the verse Libs & Progs want to believe mocks American slaves:

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


Both the context of that verse and the previous two verses make obvious to anyone willing to admit it that the phrase in red bolded itallics is Key's sneering mockery of British soldiers - some of whom were mercenaries (i.e. "hirelings") - not American slaves. But narrative - not facts - matters to Libs & Progs.
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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2017, 04:10:04 PM »
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the racism of the star-spangled banner
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“The Star-Spangled Banner,” Americans hazily remember, was written by Francis Scott Key about the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. But we don’t ever talk about how the War of 1812 was a war of aggression that began with an attempt by the U.S. to grab Canada from the British Empire.


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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2017, 04:14:51 PM »
Please tell normal people they are racists for respecting the national anthem.

I am begging you.

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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2017, 04:42:55 PM »
They have flogged the racist card to death. So much so that it has become meaningless. :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

So Dummies, sit down and STFU.  Do it for the children.
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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2017, 05:16:18 PM »
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“The Star-Spangled Banner,” 1 Americans hazily remember, was written by Francis Scott Key about the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. But we don’t ever talk about how 2 the War of 1812 was a war of aggression that began with an attempt by the U.S. to grab Canada from the British Empire.

1 Actually, I clearly knew that at age 10 or so. But that was mid 60s education, not modern education malpractice.

2 That might be because a principal casus belli was the British Navy's nasty habit of impressing US sailors off US merchant vessels.

The Battle of New Orleans has been called unnecessary, because it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the War of 1812. I wonder, though, how well Britain would have respected US sovereignty had they not been defeated so soundly in that battle.
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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2017, 06:25:43 PM »

Both the context of that verse and the previous two verses make obvious to anyone willing to admit it that the phrase in red bolded itallics is Key's sneering mockery of British soldiers - some of whom were mercenaries (i.e. "hirelings") - not American slaves. But narrative - not facts - matters to Libs & Progs.

Slave in that context can also be interpreted as being those soldiers who served against their will, ones kidnapped by the British and forced to fight.

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Re: NATIONAL ANTHEM IS RACIST !!
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2017, 07:54:03 PM »
1 Actually, I clearly knew that at age 10 or so. But that was mid 60s education, not modern education malpractice.

2 That might be because a principal casus belli was the British Navy's nasty habit of impressing US sailors off US merchant vessels.

The Battle of New Orleans has been called unnecessary, because it was fought after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the War of 1812. I wonder, though, how well Britain would have respected US sovereignty had they not been defeated so soundly in that battle.

Yeah. That's the way it was taught back when I was in school.

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