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Racist National Anthem
In 1916, Racist President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order designating "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem. In 1931, the US Congress confirmed the decision. Here is half the 3rd Verse as written by racist slave owner, Francis Scott Key, about the regiment of slaves freed by the English, called the Colonial Marines.
"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." |