I hate the Black American National Anthem. It ain't got a think cause it aint got that swing. It's leaden. It's boring. It catalyzes somnolence. Should have entrusted it to Stevie Wonder to make it catchy, like "Happy Birthday to Ya".
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this hymn inspiring greatness for more than a 100 years is leaden & boring enough to put u to sleep??? Its history is in the article. Here are the words to the 1st & 3rd verse. Food for thought, no thanks needed!pic.twitter.com/0a8ZUGbpYl
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And all Americans have one too, The Star-Spangled Banner. Stand up and sing with us without regard to divisions based on color.
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"The 1814 poem that became “The Star Spangled Banner” was something radically different, coming from a slave owner who was open in his disdain for the black race. “There was a scorn for blackness,” Redmond says. Many historians read part of Francis Scott Key’s third stanza as...
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...a celebration of the deaths of slaves who escaped to fight against their captors, siding with the British during the War of 1812. “But it’s also, to a certain extent, that blackness was not considered, in the least, part of the republic.”
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... that “own” National Anthem is simply false
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