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Stand for Peace by Neil Young - Director: Daryl Hannah

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#OnThisDay in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem which was later set to music and in 1931 became America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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What a magnificent rendition 🇺🇸.

Big thanks to Sgt Sarah McCauley singing the Star Spangled Banner in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol 👍🏻

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of course I listen to very patriotic music. oh you want me to prove it?

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: Our National Anthem

On this day in 1814, the British begin bombarding Fort McHenry. Famously, a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched the battle from a nearby ship. The next morning, Key was relieved to see the American flag waving proudly above the fort. Americans had not surrendered! Key was inspired to write a poem that would later become our national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner.

Our national anthem has been in the news lately, of course, partly because of the little-known third stanza of Key’s poem. That verse concludes: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.”

Is the song inherently racist? The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-national-anthem 

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Racists be like, “Please stop singing the non-racist anthem! Can’t we just go back to the quietly racist anthem?”

Although “The Star-Spangled Banner” and all of its verses were immediately famous, Key’s overt racism prevented it from becoming the national anthem while he was alive, Morley wrote. There was no official anthem, and many people chose to sing other songs, like “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”


Key’s anthem gained popularity over time, particularly among post-Reconstruction White Southerners and the military. In the early 20th Century, all but the first verse were cut — not for their racism, but for their anti-British bent. The United Kingdom was by then an ally.

After the misery of World War I, the lyrics were again controversial for their violence. But groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy fought back, pushing for the song to be made the official national anthem. In 1931, President Herbert Hoover made it so.


“The elevation of the banner from popular song to official national anthem was a neo-Confederate political victory, and it was celebrated as such,” Morley wrote. “When supporters threw a victory parade in Baltimore in June 1931, the march was led by a color guard hoisting the Confederate flag.”

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Happy 4th of July! America is committing genocide and that's just one of the atrocities!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was at a tap dance competition and we were slowly tapping to the Star Spangled Banner and then the band started playing O Come All Ye Faithful and a sea monster came up from the water and while say tap danced to the song, we all jumped in and were sacrificed. I think this happened every year and everyone just forgot.

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