Leftists Waste No Time In Attacking Legacy Of Francis Scott Key After Baltimore Bridge Collapse
- “Who was Francis Scott Key, the controversial poet the bridge is named after?” The Washington Post breathlessly asked. After summarizing Key’s life and begrudgingly recounting the inherent heroism of how Key authored “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the Battle of Baltimore amid the War of 1812, the article descends into baseless accusations unmoored from fact.
- The Post alleged that “The Star-Spangled Banner” did not become the national anthem until 1931 “because of controversy” surrounding the poem, “partly over Key’s racist views.” The third stanza’s reference to “the hireling and slave,” the author claimed, “was intended to mock or threaten African Americans who escaped slavery to join the British forces, after being promised land in exchange for their service.”
- Indeed, some activists have demanded that the rebuilt bridge drop the Francis Scott Key name altogether, claiming that since Key owned slaves, renaming it after him would be another of America’s “spit-in-the-face insults to Black Americans.” Similarly, Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins suggested that Baltimore’s current leaders would undoubtedly rename the bridge when it came time, asking his social media followers to throw out their jocular predictions for the new name. But before we leap headlong into erasing Key, we should examine whether there is any merit to the allegations or if it is just another historical hit job.
- The record shows the left’s claims are either not true or seriously misrepresented. The phrase “hireling and slave” had been used in military poems since at least the Revolutionary War to refer to British soldiers, highlighting their servile service to the tyrannical English rule. There is no evidence to suggest Key intended a racial reading of what was, at the time, a familiar phrase. A much more plausible interpretation of “hireling and slave” was that it referred to the mercenary forces hired by England and to the fact that the British navy quite literally would enslave foreign sailors and force them to fight — this was even one of the primary causes leading to the War of 1812.
Source: thefederalist.com
Ya know, instead of wasting two seconds of your valuable time that’s worth more than ALL of, what .0000000001% of the population of our nation that represents the LGBNUTJOB+++ mentally ill emotionally fragile crybabies, combined.
IGNORE THEM.
With talk of it possibly taking two-to-three months at first removing the remaining bridge structure, then hearing there may be a gas pipeline under where the ships’ hull is resting, it could be six months to a year to get that ship out. You know, the one owned by the family of the wife of Moscow Mitch “the Turtle” McConnell, Minority Speaker of the Senate whose sister-in-law mysteriously died when her electric car went into reverse and straight into a pond or lake and drowned. Nothing suspicious, there, nothing to see. Yet.
So at minimum two years to build another bridge. Those freaks who are screeching will hopefully be flipping burgers at McD’s if they’re lucky being part of the cleanout of the DC swamp and Mockingbird Media that will take place after our President is inaugurated January 20, 2025.
Those nut-jobs won’t be around for us to hear their wailing and screeching.
Can you imagine the entertainment value of seeing idiots like Nichole Wallace, Chris Hayes, Joyless Reid, Rachel Madcow, Joe & Mika and the rest of the psychopaths at MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Wa Po and Noo Yorkistan Toilet Paper Times all wearing McD’s shirts and caps taking burger and fries orders from blue collar folks?
Seriously, it’s not worth wasting your mental energy on. At all. We know who they are and what they do.
Besides, it keeps them busy and their little pointed heads occupied by MAGA patriots and Donald John Trump.
Let ’em spend all of their time on the name of that bridge. Idjuts. kekz
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Love your reply !!
I agree. Let the wackos scream. We all know they’re losing. I believe the reopening of this bridge will be an event of unimaginable patriotism. Wouldn’t it be the icing on the cake to see the SS United States there… restored to her former glory? To see her in her present condition is a fitting comparative visual to the state of our country… very much in decline, but still here, and with so much potential. I don’t know if the ship will ever be restored. I do know, however, that with God’s help our country will be.