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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3184252" data-attributes="member: 18225">I’m quoting Key, those are his lines.  Key was a rabid defender of slavery and took such offense that blacks would join the British army (when, at that point they had much better odds at gaining freedom than they did of fighting for the colonists) that he wrote that ‘their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps pollution’...Key was a lawyer and tried to have a man hanged for merely possessing abolitionist literature.Land of the free indeed, unless you’re a slave.Let’s not forget that it was over a hundred years later that Keys’ poem was made the National Anthem.I’m not saying get rid of the anthem, but why do these facts upset you so?</blockquote>