Yahoo Publishes Column Calling for 'Blatantly Racist' National Anthem to Be Replaced"Yahoo has published a column from their music editor Lyndsey Parker in which she argues that the Star Spangled Banner is “blatantly racist” and needs to go.
...Parker points out that Francis Scott Key, the author of the national anthem, had ties to anti-abolitionists and (she) glorifies the criminal vandals who tore down a statue of him last week in San Francisco.
From the article:
...This week, Liana Morales, an Afro-Latinx student at New York’s Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at her virtual graduation ceremony, explaining to the Wall Street Journal, “With everything that’s happening, if I stand there and sing it, I’m being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color.”
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