The opinions varied at the VFW in West Sacramento. “That’s an extreme way of doing things,” said Kenneth Lu, a veteran living in Davis.ĪLSO READ: Facebook Wants Your Nude Pics Now To Stop Revenge Porn Later READ MORE: Man Dies After Being Found Shot Several Times In Rancho Cordova She says some interpretations conclude that the lyrics celebrate the deaths of black American slaves fighting for freedom, and the song should be replaced with something that supports all of our values. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? THIRD STANZA (FULL LYRICS AT BOTTOM OF STORY)Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, Huffman is referring to the third stanza which includes the lyric “no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” “It’s racist it doesn’t represent our community, it’s anti-black,” she said. Huffman adds that the protests did lead her to look at the lyrics of the “Star Spangled Banner” especially the parts of the anthem we don’t typically sing. “The message got distorted, the real intentions got overlooked, it became something that’s dividing us, and I’m looking for something to bring us back together,” she said. But Huffman says Kaepernick’s message was lost when it turned into a debate about the flag.ĪLSO READ: Park Service Drops Funding For Black Panther Party Project
READ MORE: Power Substation Catches Fire In Downtown SacramentoĬolin Kaepernick started the NFL protests, which quickly spread to bring attention to systemic racial injustice in the country.
“This song is wrong it shouldn’t have been there, we didn’t have it ’til 1931, so it won’t kill us if it goes away,” said the organization’s president Alice Huffman. SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The California NAACP is pushing to get rid of the national anthem that they’re calling racist and anti-black.
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