Protesting during the National Anthem is no longer enough for some SJWs. According to the California NAACP, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is racist and should be removed as America’s official national song.
Alice Huffman, president of the California and Hawaii chapters of the NAACP, said at a recent NAACP state convention that she wants to introduce a resolution to state lawmakers that proposes removing the song. But that’s not all: Huffman also wants to propose two other resolutions to support exiled quarterback Colin Kaepernick and to censure President Donald Trump in the wake of his profanity-ridden tirade against NFL players who knelt during the Anthem.
And if all that isn’t bold enough, Huffman swears her proposal isn’t meant to protest the American flag itself. “We’re not trying to protest the flag at all,” she said. “We’re protesting this racist song that has caused so much controversy in America, and we’re just trying to get it removed. So, whatever comes out in the future as a national anthem, we can all stand proudly and sing it.”
On the contrary, the song itself isn’t what caused controversy – Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the song did. Furthermore, Huffman’s issue with “The Star-Spangled Banner” is specifically about the third stanza – which no one ever sings. When have you ever you heard someone sing the following words prior to any American sporting event? (the specific lines which Huffman presumably considers racist are bolded):
“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.”
“The Star-Spangled Banner” was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, when slavery was still legal in America. But the song doesn’t celebrate slavery; it celebrates America’s victory over the British at the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.
.@chrisprudhome: “Removing the National Anthem from America would be like removing the heart from America.” pic.twitter.com/c3MtFw5BO7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 9, 2017
And again: No one ever sings the third stanza. In fact, no one ever sings the second stanza, either – the song sung before American sporting events is only the first stanza. But Huffman was so offended by Trump’s stance against Kaepernick that she decided to go ahead and condemn the whole song.
It’s easy to be upset by something so brazenly anti-American. But look at it this way: Maybe this is the first step in California finally seceding. Fingers crossed.
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