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  • 2017-11-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Does the California NAACP Want to Replace the National Anthem? (en)
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  • On 7 November 2017, the Sacramento Bee reported on a draft of legislation circulated to California legislators by the California Chapter of the NAACP aimed at replacing The Star-Spangled Banner as the United States’ national anthem: As we have written about in detail, the view that The Star-Spangled Banner is racist stems from the third stanza of the original Francis Scott Key poem (The Defence of Fort McHenry) from which the lyrics to the song come. This section has been interpreted by some historians as glorifying the death of runaway American slaves fighting on the side of the British during the War of 1812: Jason Johnson, a professor of political science at Morgan State’s School of Global Journalism and Communication wrote in The Root: As reported in a piece for Public Radio International’s The World, Johnson is not alone in this view, though other interpretations have been proffered: In an interview with a Sacramento CBS affiliate, Alice Huffman, the president of the California NAACP, said: At the moment, the bill lacks a legislative sponsor in the California legislature. We have reached out to the California NAACP and Huffman for additional comment. (en)
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