49ers QB Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the national anthem

A friend posted this on Facebook today:

This is not rocket science! Read the lyrics to the so called national anthem. The song is very anti Black so there is no reason Black people should stand for it. It is not anti soldier or anti police not to stand up. It is anti racism. And lastly as Black people we don't need to explain ourselves, read the lyrics and sit down or choose to celebrate slavery and stand up. Since high school I have sat down or stood and said a prayer because I was taught the history of the song then. Now as more Black people know more can make a choice. Thank you Kap and I pray more athletes sit down. With knowledge comes responsibility!- Shawn G.
 
cawacko said:
A friend posted this on Facebook today:

This is not rocket science! Read the lyrics to the so called national anthem. The song is very anti Black so there is no reason Black people should stand for it. It is not anti soldier or anti police not to stand up. It is anti racism. And lastly as Black people we don't need to explain ourselves, read the lyrics and sit down or choose to celebrate slavery and stand up. Since high school I have sat down or stood and said a prayer because I was taught the history of the song then. Now as more Black people know more can make a choice. Thank you Kap and I pray more athletes sit down. With knowledge comes responsibility!- Shawn G.
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did they happen to say HOW it's 'racist'?
 
The song, which was originally written as a poem, didn't become our national anthem until 1931 — which was 117 years after Key wrote it.

Most of us have no true idea what in the hell we've been hearing or singing all these years, but as it turns out, Key's full poem actually has a third stanza which few of us have ever heard. In it, he openly celebrates the murder of slaves. Yes, really.

While it has always been known that the song was written during American slavery and that when those words about this nation being the "land of the free" didn't apply to the millions who had been held in bondage, few of us had any idea that the song itself was rooted in the celebration of slavery and the murder of Africans in America in the Battle of Fort McHenry of 1814.

These black men were called the Corps of Colonial Marines and they served valiantly.

Key despised them. He was glad to see them experience terror and death in war — to the point that he wrote a poem about it. That poem is now our national anthem.

While I fundamentally reject the notion that anyone who owned other human beings was either good, moral, or decent, Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone cold bigot.

He came from generations of plantation owning bigots. They got wealthy off of it.

Key, as District Attorney of Washington, fought for slavery and against abolitionists every chance he got. Even when Africans in D.C. were injured or murdered, he stood against justice for them. Key said that they were "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-stand-star-spangled-banner-article-1.2770075
 
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.’
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it can also be seen as anti-British as to their actively recruiting escaped slaves to fight against the US.
It's beyond minutia either way.

The heroics of Ft McHenry saved Philadelphia and NY from the fate that met Washington DC.
I'll go with that- the British high-tailing it down the Chesapeake - never to return to our shores
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Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?
 
I noticed that you "forgot" to mention these little facts, apologist:

Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone cold bigot.

He came from generations of plantation owning bigots.

They got wealthy off of it.

Key, as District Attorney of Washington, fought for slavery and against abolitionists every chance he got.

Even when Africans in D.C. were injured or murdered, he stood against justice for them. Key said that they were "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-stand-star-spangled-banner-article-1.2770075
 
cawacko said:
A friend posted this on Facebook today:

This is not rocket science! Read the lyrics to the so called national anthem. The song is very anti Black so there is no reason Black people should stand for it. It is not anti soldier or anti police not to stand up. It is anti racism. And lastly as Black people we don't need to explain ourselves, read the lyrics and sit down or choose to celebrate slavery and stand up. Since high school I have sat down or stood and said a prayer because I was taught the history of the song then. Now as more Black people know more can make a choice. Thank you Kap and I pray more athletes sit down. With knowledge comes responsibility!- Shawn G.
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Well, if that's the case they shouldn't learn Darwin either lol.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
The irony escapes both you and Kaep.

See, Kaep is black and he's made it in spite of a supposedly racist system and The Man lol. Why couldn't he speak a positive message?

Instead of making a lame political statement why not say 'see, I'm living proof a black man can have the American Dream. And if I can do it, you can do it too'.

But Kaep had to take the low road and reinforce the idea that the system is stacked against blacks.
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I also love the logic of, "Hey, I became a millionaire QB in the NFL...you can too!"
 
Thing1 said:
I also love the logic of, "Hey, I became a millionaire QB in the NFL...you can too!"
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How so? Colin worked hard developing his skills. As I'm sure he'd tell you. Maybe you were never involved in athletics, but it's a great way to develop a solid work ethic.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
How so? Colin worked hard developing his skills. As I'm sure he'd tell you. Maybe you were never involved in athletics, but it's a great way to develop a solid work ethic.
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Please think before responding.

I mean, that's absolutely ridiculous. The chances of becoming a successful QB in the NFL - no matter how hard you work, 24x7 - are ridiculously small. Good lord.
 
Zake said:
No one said that. I said it's odd that someone could hate a country as much as he hates the one that has treated him so well. I suppose it is easier for you though if you misrepresent what people said. It's a lot more work to refute the actual argument
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I don't think he hates the country, I think he has a problem with the way some of it's citizens are treated, so he feels with his fame that his protesting in this fashion will bring some attention to the matter.
 
Rana said:
I don't think he hates the country, I think he has a problem with the way some of it's citizens are treated, so he feels with his fame that his protesting in this fashion will bring some attention to the matter.
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It seems to be working. I haven't seen this much white angst since the last election.
 
Rana said:
I don't think he hates the country, I think he has a problem with the way some of it's citizens are treated, so he feels with his fame that his protesting in this fashion will bring some attention to the matter.
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And you don't see any connection to a black millionaire crying that blacks can't make it because we're a bunch of racists?

The racism in this country is highly concentrated in the political arena. Most Americans think blacks should be treated equally in both parties
 
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