lmk when they publish what the great great great granddaughter of one of the black human beings FS Key owned sayshttps://twitter.com/usatodaysports/status/776183847750950912 …
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Black people despised FS Key for a bunch of reasons back in the day. But so did plenty of white people.
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FS Key would go after white abolitionist writers, essentially claiming the First Amendment was a threat to ownership (of black bodies).
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FS Key used his position as attorney general to basically terrorize free blacks and white abolitionists.
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We can even trace the Snow Riot, which was a white supremacist lynchmob and riot, to Francis Scott Key. Go read your history.
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Plenty of people have always opposed the Star Spangled Banner. That includes some of FS Key's white contemporaries who disliked his racism.
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"All the whites were slave-owning racists in FS Key's time!" No. Plenty of eloquent white folks were not. FS Key tried to prosecute them.
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"FS Key never knew a time when blacks WEREN'T enslaved!" Umm. Half the black folks around him were free. Some were rich. He was hated them.
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