Posted on 07/11/2023 5:48:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
That line is selectively taken way...WAY out of context. Here is the 3rd verse in it's entirety:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Draw your own conclusion about the intended interpretation.
Also there is a 5th stanza written by Oliver Wendall Holmes during the civil war celebrating the "Millions unchained"
Here is a very good rendition of the whole song with all the words in context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCdRlM8ro-0
Has Readers Digest really sunk to this? Oy.
Yes he was. Hard to believe Frank Burns was reading it.
A good rule to follow is “Don’t bring up a highly controversial subject with a person who is on the offended side of a societal divide.” You will inevitably say something insensitive, as their experience is immensely deeper and more painful than yours.
Well, I see that Reader’s Disgust thinks going woke is a good business model.
Bud Lite Digest.
Cher is Armenian.
Yeah, he was really reaching on that one.
Actually racist: Brown Sugar, Ahab the Arab, Illegal Alien, the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Touchy, taken out of context: China Girl (Bowie is actually bashing westerners), Island Girl, Turning Japanese, Your Squaw is On the War-Path
F*** YOU, Readers Digest. You, too?: The Star-Spangled Banner, Right Now (anyone who disagrees with a Commie Black person is racist?), Without A Song (it was ANTI-racist), Half Breed (I guess the idiot doesn’t know CHER is the half-breed she was singing about?)
Of course he hated it, a song that celebrated the end of Communism.
Th 1st thing that comes to mind when I hear that is Rush’s parody of McCain.
This author is a loser.
They missed “Cave Bitch” by Ice Cube.
“…Dixie Down” was originally recorded Canadian group “The Band” and sang by Robbie Robertson, who is a Mohawk Indian
Indian Outlaw - Tim McGraw
********* on the Pillow
****** Lover
The lyrics to Brown Sugar are pretty debased.
I just didn’t realize it as a kid.
He’s a black sodomite. He lives to be offended.
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