Abbey Normal said:What if it was optional, and you were at a ball game or your kid's soccer match, and the Hispanic people sang it in Spanish? What if they started broadcasting it in both versions over the loudspeaker?
![dunno :dunno: :dunno:](/styles/smilies/dunno.gif)
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Abbey Normal said:What if it was optional, and you were at a ball game or your kid's soccer match, and the Hispanic people sang it in Spanish? What if they started broadcasting it in both versions over the loudspeaker?
Not anymore, Mom. Heck, in 1980 I had to jump an airline to Miami to fly a plane to Akron for some work. I got in the terminal there an I SWEAR to you, I didn't hear a word of english the whole time, not one!mom4 said:I don't find the Spanish version of the song offensive. But I would find it offensive if it was required to be sung in Spanish. It's America. We speak English.
mom4 said:One of those things that doesn't move me one way or the other.
manu1959 said:me?....i can not wait for the ebonics version
Semper Fi said:Because the Star Spangled Banner is our National Anthem, and to have it be translated (innaccurately) to Spanish for use by people that are here ILLEGALLY is viewed, by me at least, as defiling our Anthem, our Flag, and thus our Country. That is the big deal here.
Pale Rider said:Anyone you need to explain the "why" to Semper, is a sons a bitchin jackass. Fuck 'em.
Perfectly agreed!Semper Fi said:I don't have a problem with people of hispanic descent; I dont have a problem with people of Islamic descent, provided that they are Americans, legally immigrated, and assimilated (or in the honest process of assimilating). Part of assimilation is learning the language and the ways of our culture. They should be appeasing US, not us appeasing THEM.
mom4 said:I don't find the Spanish version of the song offensive. But I would find it offensive if it was required to be sung in Spanish. It's America. We speak English.
That's about how I feel too. It's not even the same song anymore and Francis Scott Key would be spinning in his grave right now.Me? Offended? By a disgusting bastardization of the most patriotically inspiring song ever written? By a politically correct atrocity that may as well be a shit stain on the flag? By the tearing down and whoring out of everything my ancesors dumped their blood sweat and tears into? And all of it done by a group of people that thinks jumping a fence or fording a river in the dead of night against sovreignty laws and then failing to even follow the rules that a natural born citizen must follow then 'earns' that person the same rights that my ancestors fought, bled, and died for? Me? Offended? Never.
Because they are 'owning' it.Semper Fi said:I dont see how "The Star Spangled Banner" translates into "Our Anthem" I'm a Spanish II student, and this is what I came up with: "La Bandera Punteada Estrella." Just a thought.
Kathianne said:Because they are 'owning' it.![]()
I don't see them wanting to be Americans, if they did they wouldn't be trying to 'take' the country or the anthem.Semper Fi said:Yeah, I guess so. Does anyone find it ironic that most of them arent even citizens, yet they claim it as their anthem? I guess it's a compliment, actually, because they want to be Americans so bad. We're just that much better.
Kathianne said:I don't see them wanting to be Americans, if they did they wouldn't be trying to 'take' the country or the anthem.
Kathianne said:They do not seem to have any intention of assimilating. Here are the translations found at another site:
From California's newspaper the "Orange County Register" (which is not real happy over this) is a translation of their song and ours --
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
(First verse)
O, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
The Mexican's version of our national anthem:
"Our Anthem"
(Translated from Spanish)
Verse 1
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail as night falls?
Its stars and stripes floated yesterday
In the fierce combat, the sign of victory
The flame of battle, in step with liberty.
Throughout the night it was said, "It is being defended."
Chorus:
Oh, say! Does it still show its beautiful stars
Over the land of the free, the sacred flag?
Verse 2
Its stars and stripes, liberty, we are the same.
We're brothers, it's our anthem.
In the fierce combat, the sign of victory,
The flame of battle, in step with liberty.
Throughout the night it was said, "It is being defended."
Chorus:
"Oh, say! Does it still show its beautiful stars?
Over the land of the free, the sacred flag?"
The Chicago Tribune has the lyrics. Sit down:
Nuestro Himno
Published April 26, 2006
Verse 1
Oh say can you see, a la luz de la aurora/Lo que tanto aclamamos la noche al caer? Sus estrellas, sus franjas flotaban ayer/En el fiero combate en senal de victoria,/Fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada,/Por la noche decian: Se va defendiendo!
Coro: Oh, decid! Despliega aun su hermosura estrellada,/Sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada?
Chant:
Its time to make a difference the kids, men and the women/Lets stand for our beliefs, lets stand for our vision/What about the children los ninos como P-Star
These kids have no parents, cause all of these mean laws.
See this cant happen, not only about the Latins.
Asians, blacks and whites and all they do is adding
more and more, lets not start a war
with all these hard workers,
they cant help where they were born.
Verse 2
Sus estrellas, sus franjas, la libertad, somos iguales
Somos hermanos, es nuestro himno.
En el fiero combate en senal de victoria,/Fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada,/Por la noche decian: Se va defendiendo!
Coro: Oh, decid! Despliega aun su hermosura estrellada,/Sobre tierra de libres, la bandera sagrada?