Democrats & BLM want to ban the Star Spangled Banner - It's Racist

[Sunny Side Out]

How about we ban Democrats and BLM instead? That would solve a lot of problems.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

What about it is false?

Since you seem to need to be spoon-fed facts ...

The link you provided refers to two people who object to the national anthem being a poem about war, with one line referring to slaves, written by a man who supported slavery. The article does not mention Democrats nor BLM wanting to "ban the Star-Spangled Banner".

You really should try reading the links you provide. Reading is fundamental.

[2nd trick op]

Originally Posted by Rachel976

I thought the activists were opposed to the National Anthem because there’s some language about slaves in the third verse. Just change that line, and voila! - problem solved.

The third verse mostly a put-down of the British, and of American slaves enlisted as mercenaries ("hirelings"):


"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 star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

What was Mr. Key writing about? From March of 1813 to September 1814, the British Navy occupied the Chesapeake Bay and its islands. On April 2, 1814, Admiral Alexander Cochrane proclaimed that any escaped slave who made it to British lines or a British vessel and was willing to enlist in the Royal Marines would be freed. Several thousand Maryland slaves risked capture from slave patrols to escape to the British. Seven hundred slaves enlisted in the British Marines and served with bravery at the Battles of Bladensburg and North Point.

from the Baltimore Sun 9/12/2015


I'm pretty sure that this strategy was used against a slave-holding foe on more than one occasion.

[jet757f]

Books like the bible will be banned next since the Old Testament is filled with stories about slaves. The slaves back then were any race but not sure if that matters.