Colin Kaepernick & The Racists Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner

The Nancy Lockhart Show

(CNN)"I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world." That's not Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose refusal to stand during the national anthem has invited criticism from all corners of the sports world. After Kaepernick was spotted sitting during the anthem preceding last Friday's NFL preseason game, the struggling quarterback said he would not stand to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." (That's Jackie Robinson, beloved baseball pioneer and civil rights activist, writing in his 1972 autobiography, I Never Had It Made" (CNN.com) The Racist Verses of The Star Spangle Banner. Verses 3-4 Written By Francis Scott Key - A Slave Owner 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 wiped 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. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 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!