Yet another example of P C bullshit which is now a worldwide phenomenon and seems to be getting pushed by think tanks in colleges and places of education worldwide, here’s an interesting snippet regarding the “ offending “ words from the National review ........

But there are other possibilities to consider, too. At the time Key was writing, the word “slave” (we’ll get to “hireling” in a minute) had long functioned in English as a wide-ranging epithet, hurled at persons of any and all colors, nationalities, and conditions of servitude or otherwise. Shakespeare, who barely mentioned America in his writings, used the word more than 180 times in his works. Fewer than a third of those references are in the plays set in Roman and Greek times, in which characters in the drama might be literal slaves. More often, Shakespeare’s characters — including Macbeth, Lear, and many of the kings in the history plays — use “slave” as an insult. (“O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!” says Hamlet, a prince, as part of a self-lacerating soliloquy.) Though often signifying low birth, these uses have no connection to color or — aside from the frequent use of the epithet to put down the French — to nationality. Still less do they connect to the institution of chattel slavery as found in the Americas. This usage had not disappeared by Key’s lifetime. In Robert Burns’s battle poem “Scots Wha Hae,” written in 1793 though set more than 400 years earlier, the word “slave” is an insult directed at his fellow Scots who would flee rather than follow their king into the Battle of Bannockburn.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451416/star-spangled-banner-racist-anthem

Hello bront:

They DO.. Like a lot of our past, the anthem looks like it's racist.. Here's the offending stanza:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

Now, it looks to ME, like the anthem is telling those black slaves that they better NOT escape cause they'll be hunted down and killed.. I have NO idea why that would be in our National Anthem.. Do you?

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Hello bront:

It's time to relegate relics of our past to the dustbin of history.. They should be remembered in museums and on the record rack, but they should NOT represent WHO we are..

Look.. Trump doesn't think our national monuments are worth saving, so why should we save a statue of Robert E. Lee, or a racist National Anthem??

You knew about Trump slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments, didn't you?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/trump-bears-ears.html?_r=0

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