Star spangled banner

@bijouxbroussard I will look that up. I never heard anything about the man except that he wrote the star spangled banner. There are a lot of people whom I once admired and have learned they were truly not admirable people. All the graves of the unidentified native children who were torn away from families and put into boarding schools and systematically abused and murdered. And so many of the politicians knew and just let it keep on…..and as far as I can gather, a lot of this went on in modern times too..may even be going on to this day. Disgusting.

Thank you Bijou. You educate me. I learn new things from you often. I am not uncaring…..just uninformed.

@DragonBlue I do understand. It wasn’t widely taught in U.S. schools, probably still isn’t. But it’s one of the many ironies in our country that the man who fought to free those Americans, writing a poem about “the land of the free" was from a Baltimore slaveowning family and as an attorney, actively fought to keep other men, women and children enslaved.

PS. I’m guessing the narrator didn’t want to hear it. He turned off any comments.

@bijouxbroussard 🤮disgusting. No one should be owned. I know that slavery is still going on to this day, in some countries. Child slavery too. Put me right off chocolate when I learned about the slaves used to grow and harvest the cocoa.

@DragonBlue It is. The U.S. is the one country where it should never have happened, as our national anthem pretended it didn’t even while it was going on.

@bijouxbroussard Unfortunately, there will always be tyranny and greed and that awful word….*entitlement*. I don’t see an end to it..not in my lifetime, at any rate.

@DragonBlue Nor do I. Did you know that in some southern states some laws have been proposed, if not yet passed, to prohibit teaching any aspects of our history that might make white students "uncomfortable" ? With that wording. Even things that actually happened.

Some school groups in Texas are refusing to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King, labeling him a ”racist".

Sometimes I think my countrymen lost their collective minds after Donald Trump was president.