Descendants of slaves shouldn’t stand for anthem

Citizens should be embarrassed to stand with their hand over their heart for the national anthem. The third stanza of the anthem is worded:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,

That the havoc of war and the battles confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed 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 home of the free and the home of the brave.

Maybe the majority can pretend they did not know this was their anthem, but any offspring of slaves should not support this song as their anthem, and anyone who is rational should not support this racist song as their national anthem.

A white slave owner whose regiment lost to the black slaves who fought for their freedom wrote this poem, while watching the coast line get bombed from a British ship.

I challenge everyone to read the verses of the national anthem and see if they are comfortable and proud of their anthem.

Arthur Jackson

Albany