Americans everywhere took a brief pause from threatening to kill each other online to share that they believe Ingrid Andress should have been sober during her performance of the National Anthem Monday night.
it’s cope, post hoc rationalization. the person who wrote the poem was a slave owner who believed black people to be an inferior race. it was a threat to black slaves not to flee or fight for the British side (i wonder why they would ever do that).
It was a poem about the bombardment of a fort at the subsequent repulsion of the British forces in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. It was literally titled “Defence of Fort M’Henry” before it was used as the lyrics to the national anthem.
The context of the poem doesn’t jibe with it being about African slaves.
We have lots of bullshit revisionist history that tries to whitewash racism, but this ain’t it.
it’s cope, post hoc rationalization. the person who wrote the poem was a slave owner who believed black people to be an inferior race. it was a threat to black slaves not to flee or fight for the British side (i wonder why they would ever do that).
It was a poem about the bombardment of a fort at the subsequent repulsion of the British forces in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. It was literally titled “Defence of Fort M’Henry” before it was used as the lyrics to the national anthem.
The context of the poem doesn’t jibe with it being about African slaves.
We have lots of bullshit revisionist history that tries to whitewash racism, but this ain’t it.