NAACP Is Pushing To Remove ‘Racist’ Star-Spangled Banner As National Anthem...

The California chapter of the NAACP is pushing for the removal of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem, blaming it for much of controversy surrounding NFL players’ decision to kneel during the singing of it, The Sacramento Bee reports.

The group also plans on doing what they can to get Colin Kaepernick hired by another NFL team.

“We owe a lot of it to Kaepernick,” said NAACP California chapter president Alice Huffman. “I think all this controversy about the knee will go away once the song is removed.”

Huffman called the national anthem “racist” and “anti-black,” citing the lyrics of the third stanza during an interview with a local CBS station...

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