Probably, the best solution, is to recognize, realistically how it contributes to the institutional cultural bigotry in the nation, and have congress review new option for the national anthem. That seems like a pretty simple and straight forward solution to me.
And what happens if people are offended by the new anthem? How many people should be offended before we change that one? Should we have an annual national referendum to insure that not too many people are offended? And if, say, 15% of Americans are offended, would that mean that a new one must be written? Or is it only people of a certain skin color? Do their votes get extra weight?
This is incredible to watch.
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meh, you bring up a good points.
This doesn't mean that the issue shouldn't probably be revisited.
Since it was written during slavery, and made the national anthem during segregation, don't you think the nation, culturally is much different now? Would congress vote to make it the national anthem today?
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.
The Star-Spangled Banner - Wikipedia
Perhaps re-visiting the issue wouldn't hurt. Yes, not everyone would be happy, but lots of folks like the song
"America the Beautiful" just as much.
This is wasted conversation right now. There is no constructive communication, there is no intellectual honesty, all we're seeing is a Grievance Olympics, being fed by people with an agenda. This is much bigger than the anthem.
Those who wish to further divide us want to fight over the anthem, the flag, the Constitution, cultural appropriation, words/language, all of it. Just keeping fighting over small individual issues so we ignore the heavy lifting, an honest conversation about race.
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For the most part, I agree with you.
However, the problem, the REAL problem, is that this conversation will never be had. At least not in the MSM, nor in the mainstream.
The reason for this, is two fold.
The first reason it will never be had, is the elite rulers depend on the establishment to rule. They depend on the cultural cleavages as they are, in order to distract the masses from the endemic problems and criminality inherent in the system. What I am talking about, is if the minority in-group is focused on it's slavery, and the majority out-group believes that there is none, or doesn't believe there is no compelling reason to change the system to make it more fair, than everyone still remains a slave of the ruling elites. Thus they continue to bicker among themselves, thus nothing every really changes and the only beneficiaries of the system are those who control it.
IOW. . .
The second reason this will never be addressed is the anthropological, biological, and sociological truths about the human condition. Human beings, both conservatives, and liberals, do not want to face up to some hard truths, even when confronted with some hard scientific data. When given the data of in-group and out-group favoritism, they all regress to denial. If you tell conservatives that race is a social construct, they will laugh at you and tell you it is bullshit and it is liberal egg head dogma. It doesn't matter if you show them the science. If you show liberals the disadvantages of diversity, how it is unnatural throughout the natural world, how in-group favoritism works in every species, they will refuse to look at the work in this area.
I have these discussions with Anthropology and Sociology grads and professors often, and I read the research. This is not something the media or the politicians want to have the public confront, because it isn't convenient, neither for the ruling elites, nor for society. There are things we can do to educate and enlighten our selves, do stop the hate, and it will take far more than just promoting love and equality, but the rulers don't really don't want us to do this.
Evolution of in-group favoritism
Evolution of in-group favoritism
PS67CH18-Richeson ARI 14 November 2015 13:52
Toward a Social Psychology of
Race and Race Relations for the
Twenty-First Century
http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/spcl/documents/Richeson_SommersAR16.pdf
Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer
Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer
Yeah it started SIX years ago when the ratings started taking a HUGE dropoff,you just did not hear this reported by the LAMESTREAM media as we are now.
or the fact very few people tuned in to the patriots/chiefs game which was the ONLY game in the entire country for the season opener.
