Nobody even sings the second verse (“On the shore, dimly seen, through the mists of the deep. But this is all just trivia if no one is actually singing the verse anymore, and they aren’t. Historians say the third verse, with its reference to “the hireling and the slave,” is meant to disparage the victims of enslavement, and Francis Scott Key himself owned slaves at the time he wrote the song in 1814. Whitney Houston sings the national anthem before Super Bowl XXV. The part of the anthem that has effectively been cut out of the song is the reason she can’t abide any part of it. third verse? The one that wasn’t played at the track and field trial anyway? The one no one ever sings? The one I’ve never heard in my entire life? Yeah, she’s upset about that one. The hammer- and flame-throwing athlete Gwen Berry, who is trying to ride public contempt for American symbols to the top of the fame pyramid without the intervening step of actually being famous for sporting achievements, now says the reason she turned her back on the anthem at the medal ceremony is because of the third verse. What the British couldn’t do to Old Glory in the perilous night, grievance-mongers are trying to do by claiming to be offended by words no one has even heard. We have the song to thank for the dear position held in our collective consciousness by the words “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”Īs with just about everything else in America, though - statues! old movies! math! - our national anthem stands endangered by the woke mob. It was a beautiful moment,” the superstar hoops player Isiah Thomas recalled later. “I’ve never been part of an anthem where everybody’s just in unison and lost control and just started moving.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is notoriously difficult to sing, but when it’s done right, chills.Ĭheck out Whitney Houston at the 1991 Super Bowl or (my favorite) Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game. ‘Lightyear’ flop is a sign audiences are weary of Hollywood wokenessįrom Watergate to whinegate: The Washington Post is a hot messĮven after 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth is still the GOATĪttack on Mona Lisa shows how eco-activists are destroying their own movement CNN gives Kamala Harris the easiest layup - and she still misses
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