The California chapter of the NAACP has called “The Star-Spangled Banner” a “racist” and “anti-black” song, and says it will call on Congress to remove it as the national anthem, The Sacramento Bee reported.
At issue is a portion of the third verse of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — which is rarely sung beyond its first verse at major sporting events — that reads: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
“It’s racist; it doesn’t represent our community, it’s anti-black,” Alice Huffman, the organization’s president, told KOVR-TV in Sacramento. “This song is wrong; it shouldn’t have been there, we didn’t have it ’til 1931, so it won’t kill us if it goes away.”
Read more at the San Diego Union-Tribune
When California lawmakers return to the Capitol in January, the state chapter of the NAACP will be seeking their support for a campaign to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem.
The organization last week began circulating among legislative offices two resolutions that passed at its state conference in October: one urging Congress to rescind “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon” as the national anthem, and another in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who launched a protest movement against police brutality among professional athletes by kneeling when “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played before games.
Read more at the Sacramento Bee
OK, so we change the national anthem from the Star Spangled Banner to the x-files theme where everybody whistles. To quote someone or other, “at this point what difference does it make”. Those idiot nfl players will still not stand up for it.
NAACP, negro college, black beauty pageant are racists and that offends me. NAAWP would be called KKK and the news media and the blacks would boycott going to work. I think food stamps and welfare without drug tests is also over due but the media says you are picking on the poor people. In order to receive the black quota, colleges have given those people of color a break when other racists are not accepted when grades prevail. We are all created equal, lets pull up our boots and carry our own weight.
BEST historical explanation for why the Star Spangled Banner was written
……..and why it is now our National Anthem:
https://www.facebook.com/robert.surgenor.5/videos/10204458888057032/
I agree. WE have all these orgs out there SPECIFICALLY For blacks, and they dare say WE whites who include them in damn near everything, are the ones who are racist??
Hey NAACP, you are racist against women and you NAACP, are misogynists by calling women you know what, in your rap music. So Barack is a racist against women, as he had rappers at the White House.
Utula you’ve hit the nail on the head. Thanks to the wonderful Obama, every Black in the USA is correct in whatever they say or do. Riot, Steal, disrespect the Flag, you name it and they can’t do wrong. I hope with Trump “The Season of Sleaze” will be over shortly.
Scott Belle, thanks for sharing that–it IS a great video, and EVERY American should watch it!
I’m right with you on everything you said… I say we remove California from The United States of America Since they’re so liberal and un-American. Those NFL players are paid with American dollars by American citizens so they should stand for their country and be thankful that they have the opportunity to make the kind of money that they do. Let the NFL go broke as American citizens protest what they allow their players to not stand for!!!
Perhaps they would rather be paid in blow, or pesos..
Screw the NFL & the Cry Baby CON’s they manage. I quit watching these over paid CON’s a long time ago. America’s hero’s, what a joke.. https://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/
I am so fed up with these race baiting bozo’s…Tell you what — I’ll give you $1M for every slave I’ve ever owned, and give you another $1M for everyday that you spent as a slave here in the USA…Now let’s see what these racist yahoo’s have to say about that !! It’s time for them to get a life, and accept some personal responsibility for their own actions and shortfalls.
An lets go back in THEIR ancestory tree, to see if any of THEM ever owned slaves!!!
The Star- Spangled Banner belongs to EVERYONE. In order to change it, it needs to be put up for a vote from ALL OF THE PEOPLE..
Just because they play it at a ball game does not give them the right to change it.
I would solve the problem in a heart beat, GIVE THE BABIES SOME EAR PLUGS IF THEY DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT.
When they “go down on a Knee” they need to say a prayer that I am not ever their coach. They would be kicked out. Game over.
I am 81, and don’t have the patience for all this crap.
Stand for the Anthem, place your hand on your heart, listen to the music, they PLAY BALL!!
SIMPLE.
NO RESPECT—–NO PAYDAY. Just go home and watch TV and quit upsetting so many people.
TICKET SALES ARE DOWN…..THE LONGER WE DON’T WATCH THE GAME, THE HARDER IT IS GOING TO BE TO GET BACK IN THE HABIT OF WATCHING IT.
WE DO NOT GO TO THE GAMES OR WATCH THE GAMES UNTIL
NEXT YEAR, IF THE TEAMS LEARN HOW TO SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT.
I have not watched any nfl games for over a year now and do not miss it one bit, there are other programmes to watch. That colon krapernacker only deserves to be out of the game for ALL time period, that thing is at best a forth rate player anyway.
And just think how much we are saving NOT going to all these tailgating parties and the like!
I am finished being compassionate. If you black people do not like it here please do us all a favor and go back to Africa or where ever your ancestors came from. Dan French
Why don’t we give all those who hate this country a one way ticket out of here, you refuse it you shut up.
I’ll vote for that. That would be money well spent !!
Exactly. I don’t want to hear your list of demands before you bless us with your presence in saluting the Flag. It’s your civic duty as an American citizen. If I had moved to Canada, I’d salute whenever they sang/played “O Canada”. If not, leave the country.
We ought to change it to “Dixie” and see how much these pampered SJW’s howl. Worthless cretins. I have no use for any of them.
{We ought to change it to “Dixie” and see how much these pampered SJW’s howl. Worthless cretins. I have no use for any of them.}
That would make me laugh to see them freak out if that ever played!
If you do not like the National Anthem – then get the hell out of the country. No one is holding a weapon to your head saying you have to stay. This “racist sh*t” has gone on long enough.
Sounds like a good plan to me…
I wonder what song they would like instead for the anthem? Maybe SNoop dawgs Gin and Juice??
Calls me ignorant, but what part of the Star Spangled Banner is racist?
Maybe it’s the part about asking, Jose if he can see? You know. “Jose can you seeeee?” I think that is quite accommodating. I think we should replace the NAACP as it offends my sensibilities of moral character.
Hose’ can you see, by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail across that BIG Beautiful Wall?
There’s a line in the third verse about “every hireling or slave.” Of course the NAACP pounced on that, assumed in their ABJECT IGNORANCE that it was referring to making WAR on black American slaves, and off they went.
In reality, of course, it is referring to the “hirelings and slaves” or MERCENARIES that the British often hired to help them fight their wars–INCLUDING the Revolution against US (Hessian mercenaries) and the War of 1812, which was the time the anthem was written. So, like most of the BS the NAACP, BLM, et al are putting out, this is just another race-baiting, divisive LIE designed to gin up racial hatred and division in order to advance their COMMUNIST agenda. And the IGNORANT BLACKS like these DUMB JOCK football players fall for it EVERY TIME. I know not ALL black people are this dumb and gullible, but WAY TOO MANY are!
They would have to actually LOOK FOR facts and read history to know any of that teabag.. How dare you make these ingrate imbeciles do work researching what they are talking about.. 🙂 🙂
The racial version of “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a —– by the toe…” may be a much more appropriate simple chant for the NFL game and their room temperature IQ players.
I don’t care, I permanently stopped watching the NFL in 2016.
Good man.
“Room temperature IQ,” Tyrone Williams? Methinks you’re giving them WAY too much credit. More like SHOE SIZE IQ.
Catch a tiger by the toe!!!!!!!
Good try Sherlock, but you are not quite right yet. I’ll give you a hint… The first letter is somewhere between the letters “M” and “O”, is also the same as the 5th letter in my first name, and tigers and lions love to eat them in Africa.
Make my day and give it another shot Sherlock.
Thats funny!
Screw the Black ********…. they can leave this nation anytime they want…
Who cares what this ‘colored-people’ association says..?! Anything that’s based on a person’s skin color is racist.
Solution, eliminate all history burn all history books and stop teaching any history at Colleges and Schools, today is day 1!
They have already done that. Why do you think we are stuck with all these little snowflake whiners?
Don’t they already DO that Dumvet?? Based on the sheer # of idiots we see coming out of so called centers of higher education who don’t even KNOW who the VP is, or what we fought the Spanish 0american war for, and the like.. THEY ALREADY are stopping teaching of history..
They need that tie for all sorts of social justice classes..
It would be bad enough if they just “stopped” teaching history, Ituser, but what they are doing is WORSE–teaching a revised, FALSE, very black-centric version of history designed to increase racial hatred and encouraging the destruction of our culture and history, because, you know, those are WHITE things, and therefore, EVIL. THAT is what they are teaching as “history” these days.
They are trying to use IGNORANT and GULLIBLE, history-challenged black people who have been taught this REVISIONIST BS as their “useful idiots” to DEMONIZE and DESTROY the foundations and ideals on which this country was built–ESPECIALLY the Constitution which defends our liberties.
And what’s worse to ME, is it seems the Dept of Education (OR Indoctrination as i call them) seems to be OK with all of that..
Oh what fruit electing a black president twice, The Civil Rights Movement, Affirmative Action and Political Correctness has borne. These people are 100% anti American and follow in the footsteps of B Obama and Geo Soros … useful idiots all.
It wasn’t just “electing a black president,” Eagle525. It was electing an illegitimate, America-hating COMMUNIST black President who was and IS HELLBENT on dividing this country with racial hatred and “multiculturalism” BS, the better to destroy it.
And while we’re at it eliminate the n-double-acp! Just a terrorist organization! Again we hear from the land of nuts and fruits!
What was the Brazil nut called? Remember, if you are Black you are unquestionably right in everything you say or do. A good looting is the answer to any National disaster. Obama made this mess “He could have been my son.” or the famous give a Sony X-Box to the kid who brought a phoney bomb to school. Now he can just sit back and watch the Civil War begin.
Actually, the idea of replacing the national anthem with something else is not entirely new.
Here’s a quote from Wikipedia on the subject:
I used to sing all three of these songs to my kids as bed time songs. Only because I did not know the words to any other songs.
America the Beautiful would never fly, it has the word God in it. Would be intollerable to the atheists.
LET IT be intolerable to those numpties..
I worry that the National Anthem is already in the process of change since MLB has taken to asking people to please stand for some hokey version of “God Bless America”, a popular song of the 40’s following WWII. It annoys me that it is just possible that some of the less informed already believe that “God Bless America” IS the national anthem. No changes for me and I refuse to stand for “God Bless America”.
While i do like America the beautiful, i MUCH prefer the SSB for our anthem!
I LOVE “America the Beautiful”. I actually like it better than “The Star Spangled Banner,” as it expresses not ONLY the natural beauty of our country, but the sacrifice and ideals on which it was founded. But I would not be in favor of changing our national anthem to “America the Beautiful” NOW, just because it would give these history-murdering PUKES a “victory.” And they must NOT prevail, because THEIR agenda is to DESTROY this country by first demonizing and discrediting our Founding Fathers, our history, our Constitution, and ultimately, our LIBERTIES.
Deciding what our “history” should be must NOT be left in the hands of these scheming LIARS and their ABJECTLY IGNORANT and GULLIBLE “useful idiot” followers!
And just think. IF we give in now, and grant them this victory, what’s next? Removing the Stars and stripes?? Doing away with the constitution entirely??
The Star Spangled Banner is not a white man’s song. It’s Hispanic. It starts out “Hose” can you see…
I’ve always thought it was “OH say can you see”. Not Hose can you see..
The NAACP is the biggest RACIST organization in America, always has been always will be. They keep demanding equality but they do everything in their power to DIVIDE THE RACES and then they whine. They’re getting to the point of continued ignorance. You start fooling with Old Glory and the National Anthem and “we the people,” are going to stand up and push back.
True enough!
They demand equality but then whine about not getting Preferential treatment…
The NAACP stopped being about “equality” a LONG time ago. It’s been about “special privileges” and “give me a pass no matter WHAT I DO” for a long time–and NOW it has just morphed into “hate and kill WHITEY and destroy his culture.” Just more primitive MAU MAU BS — blame the white man for ALL your problems, then hate and KILL. This is the same Ignorant, primitive tribal JUNGLE BS that is driving WHITE GENOCIDE in South Africa.
Obama and his Communist friends built this. They want a racial civil war to create CHAOS so they can ILLEGALLY seize power. We MUST NOT let them destroy our country with this Mau Mau BS.
So the Anthem is “Racist” because it mentions slaves…OK, then what about “hirelings? Doesn’t that mean it should be equally offensive to all of us who work for a wage/salary? So why am I not feeling offended? Must be ’cause I’m white…Oh, wait…maybe it’s because I’m intelligent??
So, it does mention ‘slaves’. Okay…..but there were a lot of indentured servants who were treated far worse than any slave, and they have never been recognized for their ‘paid’ oppression. The pay was for their ticket on a ship headed for the Colonies, and the cost was many years of work after their arrival……..which not many of these indentured survived.
The best historical explanation that I have ever found can be viewed at:
https://www.facebook.com/robert.surgenor.5/videos/10204458888057032/
Scot, I went to Facebook and listened to your link, but it is about 95% fiction – doesn’t even have the right war (it was the War of 1812, not the Revolution), name of the fort being shelled, number of US killed (4, not hundreds), falsely states the fort was mostly filled with women and children, and is unaware that not only was the flag not in shreds, but it is still on display in the Smithsonian. Unless you are referring to Professor Comstock’s clarification near the end of the comments, which sets out the correct story.
Key might have meant the slaves who fled to the British, but more likely he was referring to American seamen impressed by the British navy – the primary cause of the War of 1812.
And whom was it that SOLD those blacks into slavery in the first place. Certainly not any of us whites..
Well, see, oldshooter, the IGNORANT, history-challenged race-baiters see the word “slaves” and IMMEDIATELY jump to the conclusion they are talking about American BLACK slaves, and they’re off and running. ACTUALLY, the phrase “hirelings and slaves” referred to the MERCENARIES hired by the Brits during the Revolution and War of 1812 to help them fight their wars. It had NOTHING WHATEVER to black African slaves, and therefore, their entire SCREED is a LIE–just like “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
The NAACP can take a long hike off a very short pier. They don’t like our National Anthem? I don’t give a crap about the NAACP. I hope that when they walk off the end of the very short pier, they forgot their “May Wests” and then drown. I support the United States Of
America 1000%. I served our country during the Korean War. Hey Kaepernick, did you do your time in our military or serve in a Fire Department or Police Department? Hell NO you didn’t.
And YOU WON”T!
Amen! Thank you for your service to our country. Live long and prosper.
Yea, lets remove ALL racists starting with the NAACP!
this is getting very very OLD and the black folk can keep on being nazis who want to erase history and slavery they need to start in africa because they were slaves there first.
and i for one am tired of cowing down to these idiot racist everytime they cry RACISIM.
its time for white folk to make a stand for america and her liveleyhood or are we gonna fold like deck chair ?
The naacp are a bunch of ignorant *** . Tired of the blacks crying about everything.If you don’t like how the United States is. Leave. Go to another country.
I am willing to throw in a few bucks to buy them a one way ticket to their ancestral homeland, with the stipulation that they cannot come back to the US.
THe USA already BOUGHT an entire bloody country for them to go back home to.. Why don’t they take that country and make it a shining example for what can happen when blacks run the place.. OH YEA, they have already tried and RUINED IT..
What the heck does that verse really mean? Doesn’t it say that no one can escape from the horrors of war, i.e. feeling compassion for all?
“hirelings and slaves” did NOT refer to African slaves. It was referring to the HIRED soldiers (i.e. MERCENARIES, and perhaps those PRESSED into service against their will, which the Brits were often wont to do. After all, we fought the War of 1812 because they were grabbing our ships and “impressing” our sailors into the British Navy.)
If the race-baiters pushing this screed were not so “history challenged,” they could have figured that out for themselves. But they only see what they WANT to see–and whatever will suit their race-baiting purpose.
Do they even have a clue when The Star Spangled Banner was written? What it pertains to? What war it was written during? I seriously doubt it. What I think is we have a whole bunch of people who don’t know what they are talking about and consider literally everything racist in some way, shape, or form.
How many of you are sick and tired of these pampered dictating how things are going to be? The NAACP is so used to people wetting themselves because they are so in a rush to comply with every one of their slightest demands. My recommendation to them is: “Get lost!”
As far as the NFL is concerned, I don’t give a tinker’s damn if they shut it down tomorrow. Let those prima donnas go out and do something really productive if they have any talents other than playing silly games.
John Centonze, these fools don’t seem to realize that Obama and his ilk SO over-used the “race-card” that it has ceased to have any meaning–or much effect on us white folks–especially since the things they are “offended” about have become so picayune and RIDICULOUS, because they are hard-pressed to find any “real” racism to complain about! The sad thing is, they are CREATING a whole new CROP of “racists” with their ceaseless whining and demands. The rest of us are just WORN OUT with their demands, and SICK AND TIRED of their constant WHINING.
It has become so hard for them to find ACTUAL hate crimes to complain about that there are black people all over MANUFACTURING them–spraying racist graffiti all over their own walls, cars, etc., pointing to it and screaming, “Oh, look–hate crime! White supremacists!” And it turns out to be some LYING BLACK faking one because they could not FIND a REAL one to whine about.
PS: Those FAKE “hate crimes” are NOT helping their case. I guess they haven’t heard what happened to the “boy who cried wolf” when the REAL wolf showed up.
THing is i don’t think “A real wolf” will show up to “BITE THEM IN THE BRITCHES”… TOo many whites are scared of the repercussions.
It’s time to take down any statues honoring MLK: He used to call both himself and all blacks “Negroes.” That’s offensive. That’s racist. That’s hate speech. “Negroes”? Really? Tear him out of the national memory.
Anything else we can help you with?
What with iirc over 200 schools in the country named for him, thousands of streets also so named, we would have to do a LOT OF tearing him out of our history…
There is nothing racist in the The Star-Spangled Banner.
The NAACP is racist.
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.
Seriously, I am unsure exactly what the song is saying in this 3rd stanza. I think that if you have to ban every book or song that has the word “slave” in it, you will not be able to accurately teach history anymore. Not that history is accurately being taught now, but at least they are teaching that slavery once existed, even if they give no credit to white Christians for ending slavery.
So apparently this stanza is about a group of slaves that the British freed and conscripted to use them to fight against the United States. Keys is saying they will either flee in terror or be killed as enemies of the United States.
While I recognize the motivation of freed slaves to attack their masters, I must concur that they were enemies and must be destroyed.