(09-23-2017, 08:46 AM)LetsBReal Wrote: LOL the fact that people are just now discussing this......I've known this since I was a child in the 80's and this is JUST NOW being heard by some.  SMH and we wonder why this country is bad word backwards.

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(09-23-2017, 12:09 AM)B2hibry Wrote: It's well documented. Perhaps skate away from the internet and pick up a book or two.

Quick question since im not an American history expert....Didn't Americans force slaves to serve during the Civil War or was that some lie on the internet.

If you were a slave, then by definition you were being forced to serve somebody.  

Do you mean as soldiers?   The answer is, no.  There were no slave soldiers.   The confederacy wouldn't have trusted slaves to hold a gun, and when the Union finally admitted black soldiers into the ranks, they had no shortage of volunteers.

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(09-22-2017, 09:08 PM)JaguarsWoman Wrote:

(09-22-2017, 01:31 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: It's the third stanza, for god's sake. I can't think of anything less relevant.

Anything related to the Star Spangled Banner is relevant. Are you not patriotic enough to care about our national anthem?

There's nothing sacred about the national anthem.  It didn't come from the Bible.  Someone wrote a few verses, stole the music from another song, and then someone decided "Hey, let's make this the National Anthem."  We can change it if we want, or pick another song entirely, like "America the Beautiful."

Maybe Congress or someone could vote to delete the entire third stanza.

Do you know the original lyrics to "My Old Kentucky Home?"

"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home.
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay,"

Darkies! They later changed the lyrics. I think that's pretty funny. Of course, someone will probably go to the Kentucky Derby and protest the racist history of My Old Kentucky Home, which they play before the Kentucky Derby.

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