The National Anthem aka the Star Spangled Banner aka the "Defense of Fort McHenry" poem, which was the original title of the Star Spangled Banner, "the Defense of Fort McHenry"... sucks! OMG... it sucks so bad!
First of all, it’s a foreign tune... it’s hard to sing, the words are not easy to remember; it's too clumsy & bulky... it just sucks. It outright blows a big ol bag of donkey dicks.
Fuck the Star Spangled Banner!
Here's some irony for ya. Even though the Star Spangled Banner was written as a mostly anti-British poem, specifically the 1814 British assault on Fort McHenry, Fort McHenry was the fort that guarded Baltimore during the War, it's actually sung to the melody of an aristocratic song called, "To Anacreon in Heaven", which was ironically an English song that was composed in 1775.
So, a mostly anti-British song, but written to a British Melody. Ironic, no?
The Star Spangled Banner, and this is the important part, is also racist as fuck.
It's racist!
First of all, It's written by Francis Scott Key & ol Frank Key a slave owner himself, who descended from several generations of wealthy plantation/concentration camp slave owners.
Ol Frank Key was also a rabid bigoted white supremacist & while he was more tad bit more progressive than many other white supremacists of his day, ol Frank Key believed that the ultimate final solution to the Negro question was shipping all of the African-American slaves back to Africa.
It was 1814. Slavery was all the rage in Amerika at the time.
Ol Frank Key specifically said, and I quote, that Black people are "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
Lemme say that again... Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, said that Black people are "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
So, first of all, he said that Black folks are a distinct & inferior race of peoples. Which is racist as fuck. I don't recall Donald Drumpf or Shitlery saying anything like that. Just flat out... "yup the Blacks are inferior".
Then, ol Frank Key says, that Black folks being a distinct & infefior race of people... is the greatest evil that afflicts a community!
The greatest evil... isn't slavery. Or war. Or heroin. Or morphine. Or banks. Or rape, stealing, violence, or murder. Or not even genocide. The greatest evil is when white people intermingles, fraternizes, miscegenates, with inferior races.
For ol Frank Key, that was the "greatest evil that afflicts a community".
Okay?
But the main point of the Star-Spangled Banner isn't even that the American flag kept on waving even though Baltimore was being besieged. What really irked ol Frank Key was that some former American slaves, about 6,000 Black men, in return for their freedom, fought on the side of the British Empire. That contigent of 6,000 Black men were called the "Corps of Colonial Marines" and the Corps of the Colonial Marines... the British Black Marines, were a terrifying example of what ex-slaves could do when armed, and their very existence was a complete and utter repudiation of the white superiority that men like Francis Scott Key were heavily invested in.
And that's it. Ol Frank Key was extremely happy to seeing the British being killed, but his main heart's delight was seeing those 6,000 former slaves getting slaughtered.
Don't believe me? Well, read the Star Spangled Banner's 3rd Stanza, which I'll get to in a second.
So here's some history behind the story of the Star Spangled Banner:
On August 24, 1814, which was a few weeks before the Battle of Fort McHenry, Lieutenant Francis Scott Key & his soldiers at the Battle of Bladensburg ran into a battalion of these British Black Marines, and ol Frank Key & his men got uttered fucked up, hardcore, by the Black Marines. The Black Marines defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg swiftly & soundly. Francis Scott Key himself had to run back to his home in Georgetown in order to fully recuperate.
The Battle of Bladenburg is where much of ol Frank Key's rage against the ex-slaves came from... because of the whipping that the Black Marines forced ol Frank Key to endure at the Battle of Bladenburg.
The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., and sacked it, including burning down the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. The defeat of the American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg allowed the British to capture and burn down the Capitol of the US, including the White House. The burning down of the White House & sack of Washington DC is probably the worst military defeat the US has ever had to suffer.
So... ol Frank Key is infuriated. He was defeated, and his defeat led to the worst defeat in Amerikan history.
And then, a few weeks later, at the Battle of Fort McHenry, ol Frank Key just stood by and watched as the Black Marines, as well as the entire British Royal Imperial Navy & Army, burnt down and sacked Baltimore, just as they had done a few weeks before in Washington DC.
Sure, the entire British Royal Imperial Navy & Army were there, yes, of course that's true, but so were those wretched Black folks fighting with the British.
That's when ol Frank Key, full name Francis Scott Key, penned the "Defense of Fort McHenry" poem on September 13/14, 1814, after he witnessed the failure of the Americans against the British at the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore when he was on board the British ship "Tonnant"; & don't believe that myth that Ol Frank Key was a prisoner, because he wasn't; ol Frank Key was a protected military official involved in a mutually agreed upon prisoner exchange, sent specifically by President James Madison.
And all of this was during the war of 1812/1813/1814/1815... aka the American War to Takeover Canada aka the War to Kill Tecuseh & a bunch of native Americans, such as Shawnee, Miami, Creek Red Sticks, Ojibwe, Fox, Iroquois, Mingo, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Lenape/Delaware, Mascoutens, Potawatomis, Sauks, Ho-Chunks (racistly called the Winnebago), & Wyandot native Americans, so white Americans could invade, occupy & then settle in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan & Wisconsin.
Lemme read that again.
President James Madison specifically delegated the task of prisoner exchange to ol Frank Key, so at no point in time during the Battle of Fort McHenry, was ol Frank Key a prisoner. He wasn't even a soldier, or a Lieutenant at that time. At least not one in battle.
President James Madison wanted ol Frank Key to win the release of Dr. William Beanes, a prominent surgeon who was captured at the Battle of Bladensburg. Ol Frank Key was accompanied by John Stuart Skinner, a State Dept lawyer, and they both sailed out into the Baltimore Harbor, and September 7, 1814, John Stuart Skinner & ol Frank Key boarded the British ship the "Tonnant", and while they were on board the "Tonnant", John Stuart Skinner & ol Frank Key feasted, wined, and dine, and made lots of merriment with their so-called British enemies, and they were able to successfully secure the release of Dr. William Beanes under one condition—they could not go back to shore until after the British was finished with sacking Baltimore, Maryland.
Then, on September 10, accompanied by British guards, ol Frank Key sailed back to land. The bombardment of Baltimore, the Battle of Fort McHenry, ol Frank Key witnessed from behind the 50-ship British Royal Imperial Navy fleet.
After Francis Scott Key witnessed the American failure at the battle of Fort Henry, on Sept 13/14, 1814, ol Frank Key sat down, and penned the Star Spangled Banner.
Now much of the Star Spangled Banner leads up to the 3rd Stanza. Here's what the full 3rd stanza says:
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.
Francis Scott Key's focus, in the 3rd stanza, of the 4 stanzas to the Star Spangled Banner, are on the Black slaves who fought on the British side. Francis Scott Key was expressing happiness and joy at imaging former slaves, who turned redcoat as part of the Colonial Black Marines, getting slaughtered.
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,
The terror of flight... of running away from battle, or the gloom of the grave... of being murdered.
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
No refuge could save the hireling & the slave. ol Frank 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.
ol Frank Key was still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few days earlier at the battle of Bladenburg, so the lyrics in the “The Star-Spangled Banner” were personal for him.
While the bulk of the Star Spangled Banner is mostly an anti-British poem, the climax of the poem was to throw shade & to diss the black folks who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.
Francis Scott Key HATED the British, thought black folks were inferior, and therefore, combine those two hatreds... he hates Black folks who ran to the British, and attacked the Americans the most. For Francis Scott Key, the British were bad enough, but the British ex-slaves... the British Black Marines were the absolute worst!
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Even the line, the "star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave" wasn't even right.
a torrent of rain fell on Fort McHenry throughout the night of the Battle of Baltimore/Fort McHenry. The fort’s 30-by-42-foot garrison flag was so massive that it required 11 men to hoist it up the flagpole when it was dry, and if waterlogged the woolen banner weighed upwards of 500 pounds and would snap the flagpole. So as the rain poured down, a smaller storm flag that measured 17-by-25 feet flew in its place. In the morning they most likely took down the rain-soaked storm flag and hoisted the bigger one and that’s the flag Key saw in the morning.
So the "star-spangled banner" did not "in triumph doth wave". The night flag was different than the morning flag.
Plus America lost the Battle of Fort McHenry, as well as losing the entire War of 1812.
The Star Spangled Banner, also, was also officially adopted as such by executive order of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916... Woodrow Wilson! Yeah, that racist imperialistic piece of shit. That should tell you all that you need to know about it. Woodrow Wilson is the man who put Eugene Debs in jail for years because he spoke out againts WW1.
Fuck Woodrow Wilson!
Then eventually, on March 3, 1931, after 40 previous attempts failed, a measure passed Congress to make the Star Spangled Banner America's national anthem. Over 40 previous attempts had failed!
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After the U.S. and the British signed a peace treaty at the end of 1814, the U.S. government demanded the return of American “property,” which by that point numbered about 6,000 people. The British refused. Most of the 6,000 eventually settled in Canada, with some going living in Florida at the Negro Flort, and some went to Trinidad. The Black Marines who moved to Trinidad have descendants who are still known today as “Merikins.”
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Francis Scott Key.... came from a plantation/concentration camp owner. He grown up on his family's plantation/concentration camp in the hills of northern Maryland surrounded by slaves. Ol Frank Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801, and owned six slaves in 1820. Key is definitely racist; and he was pro-slavery; While he was pro-slavery, he wasn't necessary anti-black people. Ol Frank Key believed that Black folks should be shipped back to Africa so white folks could live in peace.
So ol Frank Key was a bit progressive by his day's standards, but racist as fuck by ours.
Ol Frank Key hated the Corps of Colonial Marines, and the Black Marines served valiantly for the British military. Ol Frank Key particularly despised them & Ol Frank Key was glad to see them experience terror and death in war, to the point that he wrote a poem about it. That poem, the Star Spangled Banner, is now our national anthem.
I mean, a stupid dumb foreign song, with clumsy & bulky wording, & w/ a 1775 British melody written in 1814... it's not Gangster's Paradise. It's not Alessia Cara.
"America, Fuck Yeah", G-Easy's "Me, Myself & I"
It's not even Kanye or Lil Wayne.
Fuck the Star Spangled Banner.
First of all, it’s a foreign tune... it’s hard to sing, the words are not easy to remember; it's too clumsy & bulky... it just sucks. It outright blows a big ol bag of donkey dicks.
Fuck the Star Spangled Banner!
Here's some irony for ya. Even though the Star Spangled Banner was written as a mostly anti-British poem, specifically the 1814 British assault on Fort McHenry, Fort McHenry was the fort that guarded Baltimore during the War, it's actually sung to the melody of an aristocratic song called, "To Anacreon in Heaven", which was ironically an English song that was composed in 1775.
So, a mostly anti-British song, but written to a British Melody. Ironic, no?
The Star Spangled Banner, and this is the important part, is also racist as fuck.
It's racist!
First of all, It's written by Francis Scott Key & ol Frank Key a slave owner himself, who descended from several generations of wealthy plantation/concentration camp slave owners.
Ol Frank Key was also a rabid bigoted white supremacist & while he was more tad bit more progressive than many other white supremacists of his day, ol Frank Key believed that the ultimate final solution to the Negro question was shipping all of the African-American slaves back to Africa.
It was 1814. Slavery was all the rage in Amerika at the time.
Ol Frank Key specifically said, and I quote, that Black people are "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
Lemme say that again... Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, said that Black people are "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."
So, first of all, he said that Black folks are a distinct & inferior race of peoples. Which is racist as fuck. I don't recall Donald Drumpf or Shitlery saying anything like that. Just flat out... "yup the Blacks are inferior".
Then, ol Frank Key says, that Black folks being a distinct & infefior race of people... is the greatest evil that afflicts a community!
The greatest evil... isn't slavery. Or war. Or heroin. Or morphine. Or banks. Or rape, stealing, violence, or murder. Or not even genocide. The greatest evil is when white people intermingles, fraternizes, miscegenates, with inferior races.
For ol Frank Key, that was the "greatest evil that afflicts a community".
Okay?
But the main point of the Star-Spangled Banner isn't even that the American flag kept on waving even though Baltimore was being besieged. What really irked ol Frank Key was that some former American slaves, about 6,000 Black men, in return for their freedom, fought on the side of the British Empire. That contigent of 6,000 Black men were called the "Corps of Colonial Marines" and the Corps of the Colonial Marines... the British Black Marines, were a terrifying example of what ex-slaves could do when armed, and their very existence was a complete and utter repudiation of the white superiority that men like Francis Scott Key were heavily invested in.
And that's it. Ol Frank Key was extremely happy to seeing the British being killed, but his main heart's delight was seeing those 6,000 former slaves getting slaughtered.
Don't believe me? Well, read the Star Spangled Banner's 3rd Stanza, which I'll get to in a second.
So here's some history behind the story of the Star Spangled Banner:
On August 24, 1814, which was a few weeks before the Battle of Fort McHenry, Lieutenant Francis Scott Key & his soldiers at the Battle of Bladensburg ran into a battalion of these British Black Marines, and ol Frank Key & his men got uttered fucked up, hardcore, by the Black Marines. The Black Marines defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg swiftly & soundly. Francis Scott Key himself had to run back to his home in Georgetown in order to fully recuperate.
The Battle of Bladenburg is where much of ol Frank Key's rage against the ex-slaves came from... because of the whipping that the Black Marines forced ol Frank Key to endure at the Battle of Bladenburg.
The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., and sacked it, including burning down the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. The defeat of the American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg allowed the British to capture and burn down the Capitol of the US, including the White House. The burning down of the White House & sack of Washington DC is probably the worst military defeat the US has ever had to suffer.
So... ol Frank Key is infuriated. He was defeated, and his defeat led to the worst defeat in Amerikan history.
And then, a few weeks later, at the Battle of Fort McHenry, ol Frank Key just stood by and watched as the Black Marines, as well as the entire British Royal Imperial Navy & Army, burnt down and sacked Baltimore, just as they had done a few weeks before in Washington DC.
Sure, the entire British Royal Imperial Navy & Army were there, yes, of course that's true, but so were those wretched Black folks fighting with the British.
That's when ol Frank Key, full name Francis Scott Key, penned the "Defense of Fort McHenry" poem on September 13/14, 1814, after he witnessed the failure of the Americans against the British at the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore when he was on board the British ship "Tonnant"; & don't believe that myth that Ol Frank Key was a prisoner, because he wasn't; ol Frank Key was a protected military official involved in a mutually agreed upon prisoner exchange, sent specifically by President James Madison.
And all of this was during the war of 1812/1813/1814/1815... aka the American War to Takeover Canada aka the War to Kill Tecuseh & a bunch of native Americans, such as Shawnee, Miami, Creek Red Sticks, Ojibwe, Fox, Iroquois, Mingo, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Lenape/Delaware, Mascoutens, Potawatomis, Sauks, Ho-Chunks (racistly called the Winnebago), & Wyandot native Americans, so white Americans could invade, occupy & then settle in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan & Wisconsin.
Lemme read that again.
President James Madison specifically delegated the task of prisoner exchange to ol Frank Key, so at no point in time during the Battle of Fort McHenry, was ol Frank Key a prisoner. He wasn't even a soldier, or a Lieutenant at that time. At least not one in battle.
President James Madison wanted ol Frank Key to win the release of Dr. William Beanes, a prominent surgeon who was captured at the Battle of Bladensburg. Ol Frank Key was accompanied by John Stuart Skinner, a State Dept lawyer, and they both sailed out into the Baltimore Harbor, and September 7, 1814, John Stuart Skinner & ol Frank Key boarded the British ship the "Tonnant", and while they were on board the "Tonnant", John Stuart Skinner & ol Frank Key feasted, wined, and dine, and made lots of merriment with their so-called British enemies, and they were able to successfully secure the release of Dr. William Beanes under one condition—they could not go back to shore until after the British was finished with sacking Baltimore, Maryland.
Then, on September 10, accompanied by British guards, ol Frank Key sailed back to land. The bombardment of Baltimore, the Battle of Fort McHenry, ol Frank Key witnessed from behind the 50-ship British Royal Imperial Navy fleet.
After Francis Scott Key witnessed the American failure at the battle of Fort Henry, on Sept 13/14, 1814, ol Frank Key sat down, and penned the Star Spangled Banner.
Now much of the Star Spangled Banner leads up to the 3rd Stanza. Here's what the full 3rd stanza says:
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.
Francis Scott Key's focus, in the 3rd stanza, of the 4 stanzas to the Star Spangled Banner, are on the Black slaves who fought on the British side. Francis Scott Key was expressing happiness and joy at imaging former slaves, who turned redcoat as part of the Colonial Black Marines, getting slaughtered.
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,
The terror of flight... of running away from battle, or the gloom of the grave... of being murdered.
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
No refuge could save the hireling & the slave. ol Frank 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.
ol Frank Key was still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few days earlier at the battle of Bladenburg, so the lyrics in the “The Star-Spangled Banner” were personal for him.
While the bulk of the Star Spangled Banner is mostly an anti-British poem, the climax of the poem was to throw shade & to diss the black folks who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.
Francis Scott Key HATED the British, thought black folks were inferior, and therefore, combine those two hatreds... he hates Black folks who ran to the British, and attacked the Americans the most. For Francis Scott Key, the British were bad enough, but the British ex-slaves... the British Black Marines were the absolute worst!
xxx
Even the line, the "star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave" wasn't even right.
a torrent of rain fell on Fort McHenry throughout the night of the Battle of Baltimore/Fort McHenry. The fort’s 30-by-42-foot garrison flag was so massive that it required 11 men to hoist it up the flagpole when it was dry, and if waterlogged the woolen banner weighed upwards of 500 pounds and would snap the flagpole. So as the rain poured down, a smaller storm flag that measured 17-by-25 feet flew in its place. In the morning they most likely took down the rain-soaked storm flag and hoisted the bigger one and that’s the flag Key saw in the morning.
So the "star-spangled banner" did not "in triumph doth wave". The night flag was different than the morning flag.
Plus America lost the Battle of Fort McHenry, as well as losing the entire War of 1812.
The Star Spangled Banner, also, was also officially adopted as such by executive order of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916... Woodrow Wilson! Yeah, that racist imperialistic piece of shit. That should tell you all that you need to know about it. Woodrow Wilson is the man who put Eugene Debs in jail for years because he spoke out againts WW1.
Fuck Woodrow Wilson!
Then eventually, on March 3, 1931, after 40 previous attempts failed, a measure passed Congress to make the Star Spangled Banner America's national anthem. Over 40 previous attempts had failed!
xxx
After the U.S. and the British signed a peace treaty at the end of 1814, the U.S. government demanded the return of American “property,” which by that point numbered about 6,000 people. The British refused. Most of the 6,000 eventually settled in Canada, with some going living in Florida at the Negro Flort, and some went to Trinidad. The Black Marines who moved to Trinidad have descendants who are still known today as “Merikins.”
xxx
Francis Scott Key.... came from a plantation/concentration camp owner. He grown up on his family's plantation/concentration camp in the hills of northern Maryland surrounded by slaves. Ol Frank Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801, and owned six slaves in 1820. Key is definitely racist; and he was pro-slavery; While he was pro-slavery, he wasn't necessary anti-black people. Ol Frank Key believed that Black folks should be shipped back to Africa so white folks could live in peace.
So ol Frank Key was a bit progressive by his day's standards, but racist as fuck by ours.
Ol Frank Key hated the Corps of Colonial Marines, and the Black Marines served valiantly for the British military. Ol Frank Key particularly despised them & Ol Frank Key was glad to see them experience terror and death in war, to the point that he wrote a poem about it. That poem, the Star Spangled Banner, is now our national anthem.
I mean, a stupid dumb foreign song, with clumsy & bulky wording, & w/ a 1775 British melody written in 1814... it's not Gangster's Paradise. It's not Alessia Cara.
"America, Fuck Yeah", G-Easy's "Me, Myself & I"
It's not even Kanye or Lil Wayne.
Fuck the Star Spangled Banner.
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