So I went and stirred the proverbial “I have idiot Trump supporter friends” nest on FB. I doubt I’ll get much of a response as none of them read past a headline (seriously). But here it is.

Can’t help but laugh at people using Born In The USA as some sort of patriotic song. It’s obvious they haven’t even read the lyrics past the chorus. Same with Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World. I didn’t notice until recently that he added a verse which makes the meaning of this song very clear:

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“Got a water cannon for the standing man
Got misinformation from the corporation
In the endless search for a drop of oil
People’s lives get shattered while we suck it from the soil
Gotta show the children
We just don’t care
So we keep on burnin’ it
And put it in the air”

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What am I getting at? This pretty much sums it up:

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2016/07/new-lyrics-rockin-in-free-world-neil.html

Now, on to our “National Anthem”. The author, a slave owner himself believed, in his own words, that blacks were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”

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“The Star-Spangled Banner is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom.” - Jason Johnson

http://www.theroot.com/star-spangled-bigotry-the-hidden-racist-history-of-the-1790855893

We should all be sitting/kneeling when this song plays over the loudspeakers.