(09-16-2017, 08:13 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-16-2017, 07:58 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Just to provide a little background from a different perspective-

I've read this article twice, and I still don't get it.   The whole point seems very obscure.   But here it is-  

http://www.theroot.com/star-spangled-big...1790855893

The point is "How dare Key trash talk the Brits!"

It wasn't trash talking the Brits, it was trash talking the slaves who sided with the Brits. 

Here is the third stanza: 

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.

What he was saying was, the slaves who sided with the British would pay with their lives.  

And really, would you expect a slave to fight for the country that enslaved them?   Of course not.  That's why some slaves sided with the British in the war of 1812.  

Personally, I think iit's kind of obscure and not worth protesting in the 21st century, but there it is. Interesting history.

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