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Amanda Gorman penned "The Hill We Climb"
Francis Scott Key penned "The Star Spangled Banner"
Both are renowned poets.
One owned slaves. The other descended from slaves.
From "The Star Spangled Banner":
...
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
Over the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
Over the land of the free and the home of the brave?
From "The Hill We Climb":
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
And the norms and notions of what ‘just is’
Isn’t always justice.
...
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished
One of these poems has been banned by a school in Florida. A SINGLE PARENT wrote a complaint alleging that the poem was “not educational and have indirectly hate messages” and should be removed from schools, lest it "cause confusion and indoctrinate students." This parent cited the above excerpt as their sole proof.
Where is the hate message?
Where is the indoctrination?
Did you listen to or read "The Hill We Climb" and conclude that Amanda Gorman hates America? Was it controversial when she performed it at Biden's Inauguration? Did the Fox News crowd blast her poem as divisive, hateful, or "indoctrination"??
Now ask yourself why one of these poems should be banned, while the other is played before every school sporting event and has likely been memorized by every student.
And now try to convince me that America (or at least some inferior states) isn't racist to it's rotten core.
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Francis Scott Key penned "The Star Spangled Banner"
Both are renowned poets.
One owned slaves. The other descended from slaves.
From "The Star Spangled Banner":
...
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
Over the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
Over the land of the free and the home of the brave?
From "The Hill We Climb":
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
And the norms and notions of what ‘just is’
Isn’t always justice.
...
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished
One of these poems has been banned by a school in Florida. A SINGLE PARENT wrote a complaint alleging that the poem was “not educational and have indirectly hate messages” and should be removed from schools, lest it "cause confusion and indoctrinate students." This parent cited the above excerpt as their sole proof.
Where is the hate message?
Where is the indoctrination?
Did you listen to or read "The Hill We Climb" and conclude that Amanda Gorman hates America? Was it controversial when she performed it at Biden's Inauguration? Did the Fox News crowd blast her poem as divisive, hateful, or "indoctrination"??
Now ask yourself why one of these poems should be banned, while the other is played before every school sporting event and has likely been memorized by every student.
And now try to convince me that America (or at least some inferior states) isn't racist to it's rotten core.
Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
Poet, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal
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