FINALLY!! NAACP Admits Our Beloved National Anthem is RACIST!

More from the article:

Huffman said Congress, which adopted “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem in 1931, should find a replacement that is not “another song that disenfranchises part of the American population.”

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I think they should consider less racist alternatives..say..Liberia?

FUCK THEM.......

See. This right here is why I no longer watch any NAACP football games.

Heh, good luck with all that...

It's a stupid request, I mean, there's nothing actually racist about the song...

I wouldn't mind if they changed it to "Dixie".

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten.
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land!
In Dixie's Land, where I was born in,
early on one frosty mornin'.
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land!
I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie's Land I'll take my stand,
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
There's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter.
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land
Then hoe it down and scratch your gravel,
To Dixie's Land I'm bound to travel.
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land
I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie's Land I'll take my stand,
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
Away, away, away down south in Dixie

Why don't you go back to your motherland, lmfao.

American born blacks hate African people and would never live or visit there.

I don’t understand why they say it’s racist.

Because whitey wrote it so it must be racist!

[link to www.theroot.com] ...

OMG What will they think of next?


Next in the years to come, maybe months, or days: Prediction:

Toilet paper is racist because it's white. :p HAHA


Way too much time on their hands. I agree put them all on island and let them complain there.

It is an anthem that calls on us to put aside our differences and view ourselves as connected and equal. The leftists don't want that and want to produce guilt as a political tool.

I just heard the NCAAP rep interviewed on local radio and she it's the 3rd verse that's racist. I tried to post it here but posting lyrics is banned.

click on link to see

Dixie ain't racist!

Black people have had their own version for a long time. I know this.

Troll thread. Stop feeding it.

It's racist because it doesn't specifically state that black people are superior to white people and that white people should be slaves for the next 400 years to black people.

From the article in WaitTressSandwich's op--


Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave

Some interpretations of the lyrics conclude that they celebrate the deaths of black American slaves who joined British troops during the War of 1812 to gain their freedom. Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was a slave owner and fierce opponent of abolition who may have sparked the first race riot in Washington, D.C.

Huffman said Congress, which adopted “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem in 1931, should find a replacement that is not “another song that disenfranchises part of the American population.”



It's just so much ridiculousness, and it's never going to happen.

Who has ever thought racism while singing or listening to The Star Spangled Banner?...except now, compliments of the NAACP, many will have a band wagon to jump on.

I'm just sitting here shaking my head at how far they're taking all this. It's too much for one with a common sense mind to think about.

Car to sing a verse?

Not after a few good strong cups of coffee in the morning.


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lets blame these people

I think their organization is RACIST..Can you imagine..National association for the advancement of WHITE people? Horrible double standard. They are RACIST FUCKS

Thank you Cosmicgypsy! I tried to post that earlier but it wouldn't let me!

A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:

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 wash’d out their foul footstep’s 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.

In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
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