Asclepias
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Slavery still exists here in the US too. Matter of fact if you check the constitution its still legal.I think what you meant was what does enemies in the revolution have to do with traitors in the civil war. Everything. Its called consistency. Dont be inconsistent.Wait a minute. The confederates were traitors but you guys built statues to honor the fuckers.
Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernick
The continuing refusal by the San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stand during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games has set off a debate about patriotism, protest and professional sports. But it has also raised another fraught question: Is our national anthem itself racist?
The journalist Jon Schwarz, writing in The Intercept, argued yes, denouncing the lyrics, written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, as “a celebration of slavery.” How could black players, Mr. Schwarz asked, be expected to stand for a song whose rarely sung third stanza — which includes the lines “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave” — “literally celebrates the murder of African-Americans”?
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It could certainly be interpreted as racist. What do you think?
No. It was never a celebration of slavery. Only a left wing whack job could interpret it that way. Those blacks who fought FOR THE BRITISH were ENEMIES.
Now the Blacks that fought for America in the War of 1812 and they were celebrated and honored.
What on earth does the Civil War have to do with the anthem?
I'm just sticking to the topic not being inconsistent. And BTW as a quick I can understand why many would be upset by the Confederate soldiers statues. I'm just a big buff of history though and I believe one cannot tell the whole story of how America in her infancy and with growing pains overcame the horrid practice of slavery and yet still came together to become the most amazingly free country for people of all races, religions and beliefs on the planet.
One of the most astounding historical moments is that the USA in it's infancy realized the wrong and the injustice of slavery and corrected herself far sooner than other countries on this good earth.
Sadly there are many pockets of slavery that exist still in Africa. America is by no means perfect but compared to so many others, the US is head and shoulders above the rest.