First I want to state my problems with this post.
- You post an hour and forty minute video and you don't post what section you want to focus on.
This is only gonna cause more hostility. I'm sure most of the (so-called) white people don't want to sit around for hour and 40 minutes trying to figure out what you want people to focus on in said video. Make a point and move on. I really think you just put that in here to piss people off. Then you post two other videos that really does not make any point.
I got to about 19 minutes of that hour and 45 minute video.. Then I thought to myself, this is going pretty long, i better to check out the timestamp. After seeing the length of the video I immediately thought let me go to the next video. At that point I wonder did he really watch this video completely. Because he must want us too. When people post videos, I usually check them out first because I feel they're like background stories. And if I understand the background, it'll be easier for me to understand what is being talked about in the post. A major fallacy in this case. OK, enough of that. Lets look at the issue at hand.
As I don't believe in remaking the wheel and as there already is a ready made reply I will quote it.
Jason Johnson (theroot.com)
To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.
Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.
All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1815, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.
A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:
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.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
The United State Constitution acknowledges the fact that the public has the right of redress. That redress can come in two form. You can do it peacefully or you can have a revolution. I petty sure no one wants a revolution, because even if you don't die that does no mean that your brother, mother or some family member will not die. (So called) Black people are not the only one who seek redress (so called) whites also seek redress at times also. The difference is that when (so called) whites do it is rarely in the news for weeks. It seems that the media can push some people button at will. To me the media having that much power over people is very scary! And it should be to you also. For those who still don't understand why they don't want to stand for the National Anthem. Let me put it to you this way.
1 regardless of what you think the government is not the people, if it was we would not have been at war for the last 214 years. Think about that two hundred and fourteen 214 years of fighting for the rights of corporations. That includes the (so called ) Indians wars. Of cause it is your choice.