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It matters not says who? You? Who made you the arbiter of what is morally decided in a country predicated on the first amendment codifying one’s right of free expression?It matters not what the poem was about nor does key's life matter . it IS our national anthem I do know that key never intended it to be a poem it was always to be a song . His life makes no matter either . Thomas Jefferson wrote some of our best and most famous documents , he was a slave owner , does that make his writing less valuable?
Who made the judgement that whitewashing our history to show blind allegiance to a subjectively chosen form of national idolatry should be unwavering and without questions?
Francis Scott Key was a man that believed black people were a inferior race and the scourge of this land and wrote a poem(that we used for our national anthem) relishing in a black marine units destruction in their attempt to fight for freedom and to drag any survivors back into endless bondage.
A song chosen in a country where black people were subject to poll taxes, intimidation, and outright denial of many of their basic freedoms.