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Does President Obama support the National Anthem? Might he be the first President not to?
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 8:52AM
Steve Williams
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"...Does President Obama support the National Anthem?..Might he be the first President not to? ...."
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 8:52AM
Steve Williams
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You are aware of the BIA Preamble.....? an African American Family Site.....
this Anthem you speak of was written I believe in 1812-13?
1. So there were USA Presidents Before 1812
....So your QUESTION is ANSWERED by an African American Family man.....NO
2. The Greatest USA President EVER, President Baraaka Hussein Obama did not say/write he does not SUPPORT
....So STOP your LYIN, divisive stereotypical Misconceptions.....
3. NO PRESIDENT should support these words......in 1812.....1864.....1964.....or
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
......there were Africans in BONDAGE...being raped, tortured and murdered in 1812-1864(1964)
So the WORDS.... 'In God is our trust.'...was MEANINGLESS in 1812-1864(1964)
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 6:57PM
robert powell
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What I think Robert, is that the President in his comments did not speak as the Commander-in-Chief should have spoken. Instead he was wearing his I'm-with-Her hat.
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 7:23PM
Steve Williams
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What does this, the third verse of the National Anthem means to you?:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
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.
For me. I must admit that the mere mention of "slave" is not entirely remarkable; slavery was alive and well in the United States in 1814. Key himself owned slaves, was an anti-abolitionist and once called his African brethren "a distinct and inferior race of people."
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 10:30PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Nobody sings the third verse.
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 10:45PM
Steve Williams
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.
So Congress and the President have the power to make it not the national anthem. Maybe Obama should make that a priority.
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 10:51PM
Steve Williams
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Thanks for the brief history on The National Anthem but I did not ask you who sings the third verse or not, did I !!!
What I asked you was: "What does this, the third verse of the National Anthem means to you?"
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 11:10PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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I know it's a reference to the British extending asylum to the slaves, but I can't say I understand the language itself. Do you wish the British had won the War of 1812?
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 11:18PM
Steve Williams
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No! Steven, I do not wish the British had won the War of 1812?
No Steven, this is not reference to the British extending asylum to the slaves.
Now if you knew anything about Francis Scott Key, the man who penned our national anthem, you would have known that Francis Scott Key, was pro slavery and included some of those sentiments in the full version The Star-Spangled Banner.
Steven, Do you know who the Colonial Marines was?
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 11:46PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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I don't know who the colonial marines were but I'll find out, as well as what Key meant by those lines.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:01AM
Steve Williams
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Okay, so the reference is to the Colonial Marines, who fought in the Battle of North Point, which the British lost.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:27AM
Steve Williams
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Tetting half of the truth is like telling a LYING STEVEN and you don't have to do that. Now here is the truth, The Colonial Marines did fight the Battle of North Point. Now what you left out was, these soldiers was FRRE BLACK MEN who showed Lieutenant Francis Scott Key, and his troops, who they were.
To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.
Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.
Yes, the National Anthem Actually Has a Racist History and third verse was all about that encounter with the FREE BLACK MAN.
Don't you ever tell that LIE to nobody else again.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 8:12AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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his I'm-with-Her hat.
Monday, September 5th 2016 at 7:23PM
Steve Williams
the National Anthem Actually Has a Racist History and third verse was all about that encounter with the FREE BLACK MAN.
Don't you ever tell that LIE to nobody else again.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 8:06AM
Deacon Ron Gray
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1. 'whiteMan' steveAdam......NRA hat OR LBGTV Queer hat......?
2. 'blackHebrewIsraelite'......ANTHEM is RACISTLY IGNORANT.....
to youTWO, or youEBONY/IVORY tower racists......."....Don't you ever tell that LIE to anybody else, again "
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 8:12AM
robert powell
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What I call a LIE Ron, is that FLAG that Obama wears on his lapel.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 9:29AM
Steve Williams
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If President Obama can't stand on the WORLD stage and DEFEND the FLAG of the United States of America, "One Nation under God", he needs to remove it from his lapel.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:42AM
Steve Williams
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Our competitors are laughing their asses off.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:45AM
Steve Williams
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What were those two flags he was standing in front of?
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:48AM
Steve Williams
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What a sick and sorry situation.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:49AM
Steve Williams
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That is your right but we are not talking about President Obama.
We are talking about this LIE YOU TOLD and got BUSTED TELLING ON, now you want to change and misdirect the this subject.
Now let us get back on topic, can we?
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:18PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Did you learn about the third verse of the national anthem, Steven?
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:25PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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We are indeed talking about Obama, look at the first word in the title.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:38PM
Steve Williams
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Hillary is flagging.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 3:27PM
Steve Williams
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Sorry Steven this blog is between Obama supports Kaepernick in his actions on The National Anthem.
I asked you a question: " Did you learn about the third verse of the national anthem, Steven?"
Hillary is no where in this Equation? Now, what is the matter Steven? " Did you learn about the third verse of the national anthem, the Colonial Marine and Lieutenant Francis Scott Key the author of "Star-Spangled Banner” ?
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 4:43PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Obama supports Kaepernick
SUBJECT
yet 'whiteMan' steveAdam OFF SUBJECTS his own blag....with
"One Nation under God", he needs to remove it from his lapel.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:42AM
Steve Williams
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The USA and Its Constitution is Secular.....Constitution ... USA shall not make a religion........
1st Amendment to CONSTITUTION.....Kaepernick clause....free speech.......
BUT
on the UNDER GOD thing
......the original GUYS..1776.. who thought that were NOT thinking the Creator of Adaam(as)
President Baraaka Hussein Obama is Greatest President Ever and 1st to BELIEVE "One Nation under God" INTELLECTUALLY, MORALLY and Truthfully...........
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 5:09PM
robert powell
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I learned a great deal Ron. I learned that a lack of patriotism exists at the highest and lowest levels.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 9:54PM
Steve Williams
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I see that you will not answer any of my questions about:
1. The third verse of the national anthem
2, The Colonial Marine
3. Lieutenant Francis Scott Key the author of "Star-Spangled Banner”
Since you want to white wash this conversation with misdirection's, false path's, dead ends and LIES, I will leave you in your mess. Good Night Steven.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 10:34PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Okay, so the reference is to the Colonial Marines, who fought in the Battle of North Point, which the British lost.
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 12:27AM
Steve Williams | delete
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 10:38PM
Steve Williams
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You still holding on to that LIE that the Colonial Marines who fought in the Battle of North Point, which the British lost, that is the LIE that you are promoting STEVEN.
History dictates this FACT: All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1815, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very BLACK folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds.
(This means that Lieutenant Francis Scott Key LOST THE BATTLE OF "BLADENSBURG")
The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.
A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:
Now here are the words of the third verse again for your review:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
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.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders.
With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
Yes, the National Anthem Actually Has a Racist History, this is just one of the reason why sport figures throughout the last 60 years have been in protect, this to is a act of patriotism. Protest, the country was founded in the air of "PROTEST."
Have you heard of The Boston Tea Party?
YOUR WORDS: I learned a great deal Ron. I learned that a lack of patriotism exists at the highest and lowest levels.
THAT IS A DAMN LIE STEVERN AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT!!!
Tuesday, September 6th 2016 at 11:37PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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There's nothing new about an average citizen being unpatriotic. That's all Kaepernick is, an average citizen. And I haven't heard him say anything about the third verse. I heard him say he doesn't like what the flag represents. The shocker is that the President of the United States agrees with him!
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 12:31AM
Steve Williams
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And not only agreed with him, but did it while standing in front of the American and Chinese flags!
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 12:41AM
Steve Williams
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YOUR WORDS: There's nothing new about an average citizen being unpatriotic.
So, you feel that protesting is unpatriotic?
YOUR WORDS: That's all Kaepernick is, an average citizen.
Kaepernick is a young BLACK MAN who is a quarterback for a leading NFL football team, that is not average.
Kaepernick is a AMERICAN who makes tens of MILLIONS on and off the field, that is not average.
Kaepernick is a AMERICAN who is willing to risk all that and more at great cost to him, for what he believes, which is his patriotic right, this is not average.
YOUR WORDS: I heard him say he doesn't like what the flag represents.
It is not about if you heard Kaepernick mention anything about the third verse of The National Anthem or not. By the way, you don't understand the words to that third verse of The National Anthem, yourself and when I bring you the FACTS about the third verse, you act like I said nothing to you about those FACTS.
YOUR WORDS: I heard him say he doesn't like what the flag represents.
STEVEN, If you heard that, what was his reason why Kaepernick doesn't like what the flag represents?
YOUR WORDS: And not only , but did it while standing in front of the American and Chinese flags!
You now, agreed with him or not? Who The President of The United States. He has shown you the power of influence our country has throughout the world.
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 9:52AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Kaepernick said "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." The President said "he has a point." The flag does NOT represent a country of oppressors Ron, and Obama was wrong to say so.
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 11:19AM
Steve Williams
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Then you are blind as a bat and your thinking is out of control. You are actually trying to white wash history.
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 12:25PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Kaepernick is less than ordinary.
Wednesday, September 7th 2016 at 4:52PM
Steve Williams
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