(09-23-2017, 12:29 PM)WingerDinger Wrote:

(09-23-2017, 10:29 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: 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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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.

Lets not get too high and mighty when the majority of your accepted Hip Hop artists are down right vulgar when it comes to race and women.. 

So blow it out of your rear with the hypocrisy