national anthem

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• 5-29-18
  

  Donald Trump’s Shameful Use of the “Star-Spangled Banner” Is, Alas, an American Tradition 

  by Michael J. Pfeifer

  It’s one we should have put to an end long ago.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-25-18
  

  Trump said protesting NFL players ‘shouldn’t be in this country.’ We should take him seriously.

  by Martha S. Jones

  Black Americans have been threatened with deportation before. It never ends well.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-23-18
  

  The NFL Told Teams to Stand During the National Anthem in the 1960s

  Here's how one player protested.

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• SOURCE: LikeTheDew
  11-12-17
  

  Cheerleaders taking a knee aren’t dishonoring the flag

  by David B. Parker

  Why the president of Kennesaw State University might want to reconsider his criticism.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10-2-17 (accessed)
  

  Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

  by Jill Lepore

  The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-24-17
  

  Before Trump vs. the NFL, there was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK

  Jackie Robinson, the hero who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, spoke out loudly for civil rights and challenged President John F. Kennedy to stop dithering on black equality. Unlike Trump, JFK sought to understand Robinson’s complaints.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8-31-16
  

  'Star-Spangled Banner' critics miss the point

  by Mark Clague

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" in no way glorifies or celebrates slavery.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  7-4-16
  

  Story of the Week: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

  by Jason Johnson

  In the third, forgotten stanza, Francis Scott Key refers darkly to the members of the Colonial Marines, a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom.