Re: [Marxism] ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’s’ racist lyrics reflect its slave owner author, Francis Scott Key

[William Quimby via Marxism]

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In front of the main entrance to the Frederick County Public Library 
building in Frederick, Md. (Key's home town, and the site of the Francis 
Scott Key
Mall and a brew pub featuring an FSK lager) is this hilarious statue of 
an African-American mother (or father?  don't recall) and two children 
eagerly

reading the Star Spangled Banner.



The good Frederick news is that a bust of Taney was removed in March 
2017 (after several years of squabbling) from the City Hall forecourt.


- Bill

On 12/25/19 04:35 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

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Francis Scott Key was a rich slave-owner who persuaded President 
Andrew Jackson, the symbol of grass-roots democracy for Sean Wilentz, 
to make his brother-in-law Roger Taney the chief justice of the 
Supreme Court. From the article: "Roundly hated north of the 
Mason-Dixon line, Taney lived long enough to author the 1857 Dred 
Scott Supreme Court opinion, the most starkly racist high court 
decision in history. Taney struck down the argument that free blacks 
could become citizens in free states like Illinois and further 
declared that all blacks, whether slave or free, were never entitled 
to any rights, period."


https://theundefeated.com/features/the-star-spangled-banners-racist-lyrics-reflect-its-slaveowner-author-francis-scott-key/ 


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Re: [Marxism] ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’s’ racist lyrics reflect its slave owner author, Francis Scott Key

[Mark Lause via Marxism]

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 I was confused by the title of the article, because--while Francis Scott
Key was a white supremacist--I couldn't recall any mention of race in "the
Defense of Fort McHenry."  The verse in question is:

"No refuge could save the hireling & 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 & the home of the brave."
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