Anthem

They say you can always learn something new and that is true for most people when it comes to the National Anthem. An Olympic athlete said the anthem shows how America is racist. She referred to the third verse. Most people did not know there are four verses since only the first is sung. Here is the third verse. 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 washed out their foul footsteps’ 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! She has a point here but you really have to dig to find it and that seems to be happening in many different areas. This anthem was adopted in 1933 long after 600,000 Americans died in the war to get rid of slavery.