![]() ![]() With a fleet of warships in Baltimore Harbor, the British sent a downpour of shells and rockets on Fort McHenry for 25 hours in September 1814. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of 1812. The poem is a form of art and should be appreciated as art, not dismissed because of the personal beliefs of the author. So I guess anything they wrote should be removed. Two-thirds of our founding fathers were slave owners. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor his poem. 7): The NAACP wants the Star Spangled Banner removed as our National Anthem because the author was a slave owner and the third stanza of the poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Re “ Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem, California NAACP urges” (, Nov. ![]()
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