Speaking of black holes and unhinged idiots...
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Gwen Berry, 'The Star Spangled Banner' and free speech in the world of sports
“The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has.”
Those were the words of Gwen Berry, an Olympic track and field athlete, who turned her back while the national anthem of the United States was being played during the award ceremony at the Olympic trials June 26.
Berry claims that the "Star Spangled Banner," is racist and disrespectful to black Americans.
She explained, “If you know your history, (which Berry obviously doesn't) the third paragraph (stanza) speaks to slaves in America, our blood being slain and piltered (?) all over the floor. It’s obvious. There is no question.”
Ignorant race hustling bitch has no clue what she is taking about and needs to be taught a lesson in gratitude as well as history....
The third stanza refers to "hirelings" and "slaves" as hired troops of the British crown. This is or was common rhetorical license of the time...While the British did employ some free blacks as colonial marines, the majority of blacks, free and slave, worked to defend Fort McHenry from the British assault. It is historically recorded that blacks both free and slave were paid the same as whites to build defenses around the fort and they fought with distinction as true patriots for the American cause.
The use of the terms "hirelings" and "slaves" is quite common in the literature of the time when Francis Scott Key wrote the poem, "In Defense of Fort McHenry" that would later become our National Anthem. In 1780-1816, you will see that "slave" and "hireling" were each used in a pejorative fashion to describe "free people" carrying out the wishes of a more powerful person.
As an example, the words "hirelings" and "slaves" appear in a poem to describe the King's soldiers during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In the poem "The Death of Warren" from the Trenton True American, published on 15 May 1813 in the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the poet describes:
",,,,,When tyrant George assailed our shore,
and thousands of his
slaves sent o'er,
With power to kill, inflict each ill.
Our towns to burn that we might mourn.
And make us to his sway return.
A sway that was
slavish and foreign."
The poet unnamed continues in a later verse:
"Now Howe, (British General Howe) who had the chief command of George's troops within our land,
Addresses thus his
hireling band:
'To stand us they are not able.
Behold (he cries) the motly host,
And quickly drive them from their post;
And as you live no quarter give,
Mind no prayer, not one spare;
For vengeance we will have that's rare.
And destroy every Yankee Rebel.'
Now I don't blame Berry for having this idea stuck in her empty, bulldyke, head.. It's obviously been planted there by some race baiting so-called "educator" or some other CRT fanatic. So once again this is a case of "reaching" by a moronic fool who is simply spewing garbage in an attempt to apply modern pejorative language to 18th century common English...Anyone with half a brain can figure out that it doesn't work and that the meanings and usage of words has changed in the past 200 plus years, or am I expecting too much from today's average American....Claiming that Francis Scott Key was a racist and that his poem is disrespectful to blacks is grossly speculative and circumstantial at best...Stupidity is rampant in this country and the race hustling pieces of shit among us are taking full advantage of it.