Is it time for the USA to dump The Star Spangled Banner and pick a new National Anthem?

[supercutebutt]

VOTE BELOW!

The first verse of The Star Spangled Banner is all that is sung before sporting events, etc. but a 3rd verse (see bold below) has been called racist. So should we just scrap the entire song and pick a new one?

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto–“In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

No. Let's keep things the same.

Yes. It is time to replace the song with another. I will post a better song choice below.

Let's not have a National Anthem at all. Whatever song is picked will be hated by someone.

[darkcloud1945]

It is time to stop all this bullshit about America the racist country and wanting a new anthem. Please please please if you do not like the way this country is a work in progress on all fronts pack your bags and get the hell out of here. I doubt if you know the real story of the National Anthem. you might want to read all you can find out about it. The way this country under the leadership of THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA we are starting to see what they want gas shortages , The price is going nut now and it is just the start looking ahead to gas prices upwards 0f $8 to $12 a gallon. Food shortages because truckers can not afford fuel and farmers can not afford fuel for his equipment to grow the food we need please ask AOC how farmers are going to plow all the fields with horse and plow to feed America let alone the rest of the world and how you are going to heat your house without gas and oil. Now the IDIOT in power want the govt to knock doors for you to take a vaccine that is on trial till 2024 to get read out on a vaccine that causes heart problems and a bunch of other problems so for over a million known problems you will not hear that on main stream news So a new Anthem is just a distraction from real problems we have cause by people who think they know better than the silent majority.

[Andres77]

It's because people are so intellectually lazy that they don't consider history in context and whine and bitch about things they don't understand and act like self-righteous bullies.

Maybe it's because you don't understand simple English that you can't wrap your mind around it.

And if you're all butt-hurt over a reference to slavery (that we went to war over and hundreds of thousands of white men died to end and still preserve the union, and no one sings that verse anyway) but you do nothing about the slavery going on right now then you're a hypocrite yourself.
There's an estimated 30 million slaves around the world... right now. Some are in your city. Human trafficking. It's slavery.
What do you call a slave owner in the 21st century in the USA? A pimp.
I think it was 2004 that a song about being a pimp won an Oscar for best song.
"It's hard out here for a pimp."
Glorifying the use of women so a pimp can keep his car and his shiny rims.
Make them give the Oscar back and all the money they made off that song and donate it to rescue operations for victims of human trafficking.
If anyone is upset about historic slavery but does nothing to end current slavery then you're a hypocrite/fool.

[supercutebutt]

This is a poll, doofus. You can vote to keep things the same.

[Andres77]

I know it's a poll, smarty-pants.
I voted and I also gave my opinion so anyone interested would know why I voted to keep it.

[Andres77]

Thanks for mho

[purplepoppy]

Here's the new one

If we vote libtard we like to eat lard
And we lean to the right we always talk shite
But with one mighty thump
We dumped Donald Trump.
We all like our guns, our food gives us the runs
And so it figures the south still hangs niggers

[Iron_Man]

Remember there’s always 2024 for Donald Trump to return as President

[supercutebutt]

@Iron_Man Will you vote for the insurrectionist/murderer?

[Mia-Wallace]

😂😂😂

[darkcloud1945]

We already have two in place Biden Harris impeach both

[SaoirseS]

Leave it alone, only the first verse is sung anyway. Nobody ever recites the third verse, or even the second. It’s just like Germany’s national anthem, only the third verse of it is used.

[abc3643]

I am more concerned about The Declaration of Independence:

"... The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. ...
...
>>>>>>> He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

...
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
...


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Hmmm... sounds like Trump.

[darkcloud1945]

No sound like THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY spouting their usual bullshit. the hundreds of death caused by open borders people drowning and being abandoned midway here in the middle of the desert trying to get here for the free free free giveaways OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF AMERICA. Plus the shipping of unvaccinated illegals by the thousand to states all over America possibly killing God knows how many will die of COVID19 transmitted by the unvaccinated illegals but citizens to have their door bells rung and questioned about their vaccine status. So TRUMP had a handle on the problems. The clowns in power now are doing what you said TRUMP did. America always was and still a work in progress to try to become more perfect every day. But its detractors are trying to tear it down and make it become COMMUNIST

[Mac-One]

@darkcloud1945 the so called democrats have always had a way of blaming others for all of the undesirable things which they do and getting people to believe their lies.

[Jackblue]

It is disputed what Francis Scott Key meant by that, he may have been suggesting that British and Canadians were the willing slaves of the King of England and would not overwhelm free people in a democracy. His attitude towards black slavery was less than positive.

[CasuallySamsonite]

America the Beautiful nearly was made into the *new* national Anthem but was turned down because Woody Guthrie was Jewish and his use of "god" in the song was criticized at the time over concerns of "which god" he meant... tragic.

[exitseven]

It wouldn't be America without the Star Spangled Banner.

[legalboxers]

Its been there from the age of time. And if it is replaced, there will be a shit load of more triggered, if you thought Jan 6th was bad, this will be worse if its replaced

[supercutebutt]

Yeah probably.

[Anonymous]

I’d say change the lyrics to match the time. Like it says in God we trust, but which God? The USA is much more diverse than just Christianity so it should change.

[loveslongnails]

Funny that you posted the whole thing. 95% of the population doesn't know how many verses there are, nor do they know any of the other three.

[EaterPeter]

I like to have an anthem where every one can sing. I don't like the idea of only one person singing.

[EaterPeter]

Thanks for like!

[Rangers]

Absolutely not, anyone who doesn't like the anthem, there's the door, walk out and don't come back, you're not welcome in this country.

[supercutebutt]

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave

Aren't you a hireling, though? The song basically is saying it wants you dead. I think Trump would kill you in a heartbeat if he could somehow profit off your slaughter. :)

[G5TWA1]

wtf you're not welcome in a country because you don't agree with the choice of their anthem?

[Mac-One]

@Rangers Great - you have not been indoctrinated with the radical BS of your generation.

[karaspara]

Why on Earth would you change it?

[supercutebutt]

I explained why above. :)

[karaspara]

I still wouldn't change it what next stop celebrating Thanksgiving

[supercutebutt]

You can choose not to celebrate Thanksgiving if that is your desire. We live in a free country :)

[karaspara]

I'm not saying you should or shouldn't I live in the UK so we don't celebrate Thanksgiving i'm just saying where does it stop if you change the Anthem we have situations here where people want statues removed because the people were racist 200 years ago I understand the sentiment but it changes nothing it's a empty gesture we should learn from history not pretend it didn't happen

[supercutebutt]

That's why I made this a poll question so people could pick their favorite option. So far, 85% of people voted to keep things the same.

[karaspara]

Yeah I saw I wasn't criticizing you ✌

[Jerre]

It is good as written

[supercutebutt]

But lots of people don't like that the dude who wrote it had hate in his heart:

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

So maybe we just scrap the whole thing?

[zagor]

He didn't have hate in his heart, he was pro-slavery. He loved the idea of other people having to do his work for him.

[supercutebutt]

@zagor You knew him?

[zagor]

I don't think you can assume he had hate in his heart just because he had some vile opinions that were common in his day.

[cloud9vortex1234]

No, I don't even consider it an option.

[msc545]

No of course not. The new one might be longer.

[Adam_West]

should not change