Jill Scott's twisted 'home of the slaves' anthem face-slaps all America -
Award-winning singer and songwriter Jill Scott took to an Essence Fest stage and belted out a rendition of the National Anthem that subbed out the phrases “by the dawn’s early light” and “what so proudly we hailed” for “by the blood in the streets” and “that this place doesn’t smile on you, colored child.”, “Everyone please rise for the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward.
This isn’t a truthful description of America so much as a convenient political talking point of the Democrat Party — one that says that without slaves, this country never would have survived. It’s the race card drivel that low-information, no-information voters suck up and snuggle with all the live long day as the cause of their own failures — the one that lets them dodge accountability, personal choice, hard work, responsibility and God forbid, self-reflection.
Actually, slavery is not specific to America. It’s been an institution around the world since, well, ever. But it is specific to America the lengths to which the nation went to abolish slavery; it was largely Western Civilization, European nations, Christian societies and American morals and virtues that ultimately stopped the spread of slavery and criminalized its practice.
The sad part of the story is, though, that telling black people they’re downtrodden and depressed can actually become a self-fulfilling prophesy for young impressionable black minds. How many children in public schools, of all skin colors, not just black, have been raised to despise American Exceptionalism based on skewed teachings of U.S.
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