An opinion piece from The Los Angeles Times raised its eyebrows for calling for “The Star-Spangled Banner” to be canceled as a national anthem.
Collaborative writer Jody Rosen started her column by hitting a Francis Scott Key monument in San Francisco, who wrote the lyrics for “The Star-Spangled Banner” as “imposing and fussy”.
After noticing that the Key statue had been knocked down by rioters, Rosen seemed to offer a justification for vandalism, as he was also a slave owner.
“The wave of reckoning and revisionism that is sweeping the country may have to come for the national anthem,” Rosen wrote, noting viral claims that “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a “racist song” that stems from the poem. from Key “Defense of Fort M’Henry”, which summons slaves.
Rosen listed several songs that have become the next national anthem, including “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson, as well as other iconic American tunes such as “God Bless America”, “America la beautiful “and” This land is your land “.
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“No, none of these songs will do,” argued Rosen. “At a time when the United States is under the control of multiple crises, convulsed by debates about racism and injustice, devastated by a pandemic, with a ruined economy and faltering democracy, the very idea of a national anthem, a hymn to In the glory of the country, it feels like a crude relic, another monument that can justify demolishing it, but if we must have a hymn, it should be very different from what we have now, raising another type of patriotism, an alternative idea of America and Americanness. It would also be great if it was, you know, a decent song, that a citizen could sing without colliding with an o’er or thee, or if they were asked to jump over the eighths. “
The LA Times writer concluded that such a song should be “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers.
“It is a modest song that does not emit airs. It speaks in a simple musical language, without a trace of bombardment, in an ordered arrangement that develops on a few basic chords. It does not march to a martial rhythm or reach great crescendos. The lyrics do not contain images. fruit plain plains or foamy white oceans, no invocations of freedom or of God. ‘Lean on Me’ is a deeply American song, but it is not, explicitly at least, a song about America, “Rosen explained. “However, it has long been a kind of national anthem. ‘Lean on Me’ is one of the few songs that has reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts in two different versions … It is surely among the most popular sang American songs of the last half century. “
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Rosen pointed to all the famous singers who have performed the hit song, such as Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige, Garth Brooks, Shawn Mendes, and Nick Jonas, and how the song was sung at the Black Lives Matter protests throughout the country in recent years. weeks and was used as a tribute to first responders towards the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
“What do all these singers hear in ‘Lean on Me’? They hear a message of friendship and feelings so direct that at first it may seem banal,” Rosen continued. “When you reinforce that feeling, as Withers does, with a few claps and a funky bass line, the words sound even truer. It’s a message you can build on, a pretty solid foundation for a decent society. It can handle the load”.
Rosen’s suggestion, however, was widely seen on social media.
“It is almost as if they are trying to re-elect Trump,” reacted Tom Bevan, president and co-founder of RealClearPolitics.
“Replace it with ‘Everybody’s Special’ from Barney and Friends,” joked Ben Shapiro.
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“Let’s just record everything and start the country from scratch, okay? Save time …” suggested The Hill journalist Joe Concha.
“First they wanted you to kneel, and now they want to replace the national anthem. This is a removal of our history and tradition, plain and simple,” said Rep. Jim Banks, R-Indiana.
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There has been a cultural shift after George Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis. Floyd, a black man, died after a white police officer held his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.
Television shows “Cops” and “Live PD” were canceled, “Gone With the Wind” was temporarily withdrawn from HBO Max and re-added with historical context. White actors have withdrawn from voicing characters of color on animated television shows, brands like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben have been withdrawn, and black-faced comedy episodes have been removed from broadcast platforms. And the Washington Redskins will withdraw their franchise name from a lifetime.
On Monday, Washington Post editor Karen Attiah similarly stated in an op-ed that the name of the Texas Rangers “must go.”
