"Oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesty" –what's not to like about sonb by Katherine Lee Bates. Protesters against the national anthem by ball players provide a freedom of speech platform to voice deep racial problems. Other people object to " the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air"– in modern times causing countless victims of "collateral damage"– defenseless offense of endless wars of vengeance still killing mostly citizens and children and babies deformed from nuclear, chemical toxic war emissions and missiles "bursting in air." The present national anthem honors the old War of 1812. Francis Scott Keys who wrote the lyrics to the what became the national anthem was a Baltimore plantation slave owner who wanted to send people in bondage back to Africa (Liberia). John Stafford Smith wrote the music that originally was an old bar song honoring ancient Greek poet Anacrean, an avid lover of Bacchus wine. He was a lawyer against abolition. Meanwhile, why revert back to a former culture of ignorance and prejudice against dark complected people. Not too long ago Italians, Jews, Americans Africans and American Indians were banned from private country clubs. Another word for "race" is nationality, that eliminates rival whites and blacks, adjectives instead of nouns. I can remember in western Pennsylvania a posted sign at an elitist country club that read, "No Jews aloud."
World Enlighten News, W.E.N.
HCS (instrumental in reforming American country clubs to allow all nationalities membership)
