Quote:You really buy into that whole hate-America-first brainwashing, don't you?

 

Not at all.  I live in the greatest country on earth by choice instead of luck.  America's not perfect, and may not be the best place for everyone, but it's almost certainly the best place for a guy like me.  Just providing the link for Indy's point.

 

Quote:I guess if you dont have a rudimentary understanding of the English language and a racial axe to grind you could believe that nonsense.

 

I think the article made a great point about the 3rd verse.  The case can be made that it's about the fate of runaway slaves seeking freedom on the British side instead of slavery on the American one.

 

But, as we all know, we never, ever, play even the 2nd verse of the national anthem.  So in modern America, it's kind of a reach to say that playing the anthem represents an endorsement of colonial slavery.

 

Francis Scott Key did write it, though.

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