Baltimore's monument to the man who wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner" was defaced Tuesday night, with the words "Racist Anthem" scrawled in black.
The phrase was written at the base of the concrete and marble Francis Scott Key monument. Besides the black lettering, the structure was splashed with red and black paint.
On the ground near the monument, words from the third stanza of Key's famous poem were painted in black, according to the Baltimore Sun: "No refuge could save, hireling or slave, from terror of flight, or gloom of grave."
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Someone ask the vandal or their supporters exactly what about the Star Spangled Banner is racist. Surely not the lyric "No refuge could save, hireling or slave..." unless one is illiterate.
ReplyDeleteThey understand it just like they do the 2nd.
DeleteThey are anarchists plain and simple. Throw them in jail and lose the key.
ReplyDeleteBut that would be using common sense............
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