This is a call to action to the Whittleverse. It’s time to arm ourselves for Juneteenth [1], a month away as of today. I have no problem with creating a holiday to commemorate June 19th as the day people want to use to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States.
Where I have a huge problem is the left luring our great nation down yet another dark alley for a knife fight. This time I say we bring the truth of the other side of history as a flashlight and an AR-15 slung over our shoulder. I’m tired of taking their crap. Put another way, I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!
We Americans of all political persuasions have allowed the leftists to dominate our schools’ curricula and the public dialogue for too long…far too long. I think we all know the left plans to use the increasingly popular Juneteenth (already a holiday in many liberal cities) to bash America annually by attempting to claim–as the 1619 Project did–that America was “founded in slavery” and must still repent for the “original sin” of slavery.
Bollocks.
I would really like to hear from the Whittle Army. Please seek and post facts regarding the other side of history which proves that American blacks have NOT been held back by slavery. We each only need to know a few to push back during casual conversation. These bullies are being shown to not put up much of a fight at all, so lobbing a few grenades from a packed arsenal in their direction will do a lot of good.
Let me kick it off. Here are my initial contributions toward the armory of facts dispensing with the idea that America was built on the backs of black slaves and therefore we must repent today for this original sin given that American blacks have been prevented for all time from escaping the legacy of slavery…
Frederick Douglass was a Republican. Booker T. Washington was a Republican. The first black member of all Congress and the first black member of the Senate both served the post-Civil War South and were, you guessed it, Republicans…
Hiram Rhodes Revels (first black member of the Senate and served for the state of Mississippi starting in 1870) and Joseph Hayne Rainey (first black member of all of Congress and served South Carolina in the House of Representatives also starting in 1870).
In fact, Joseph Hayne Rainey was born a slave. Someone should have told him that the legacy of slavery was inescapable.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Hiram+Rhodes+Revels+republican
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Joseph+Hayne+Rainey+republican
Same for Booker T. Washington. Here’s a link to an online copy of his book, “Up from Slavery.” Reading it now. Highly recommend. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2376/2376-h/2376-h.htm#link2HCH0001
Though born a slave, Booker T. built Tuskegee University from the ground up, literally, bricks and all, on a former plantation in segregated Alabama. Opened July 4, 1881.
I’ve had it up to here with the left co-opting our holidays and months to take potshots at our great country. There isn’t a single true American who holds dear to any ideology or philosophy which have, properly interpreted, led to our past mistakes.
True Americans believe in the inalienable rights of each individual enshrined in our Constitution and condemn the trampling of those rights via tyranny in all of its forms. This includes any missteps our leaders may have taken overseas and over the years. I think it’s safe to say that the American public hasn’t approved of these missteps unless such approval was obtained by our leaders hiding the truth from us in order to advance their own hidden agenda. Either that or America as a whole was acting in good faith on bad intelligence.
My point is that we as Americans have done our level best to live up to the values outlined by our founders and as a result we sure as hell don’t deserve to be abused by anti-American leftists seeking to take away our freedoms by weaponizing our own history against us. For the last 50 years, they’ve been cherry-picking facts to build guilt machines. Then they’ve used those through the media, academia and Hollywood to leverage the sympathy and generosity of the naive or uninitiated to fulfill their own hidden agenda which in their minds eventually puts them in control of a tyrannical state.
Not any more. Enough. Ditch your white guilt or whatever guilt you feel. Encourage your family and friends to do the same. Remind yourself that we, today, have used our time and treasure via affirmative action and other programs to correct for the past sin of slavery despite the fact that WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
The guilt has been generated under false pretenses by those who will not hesitate to imprison our children. Don’t think so? Many of those who participated in the “armed insurrection” of January 6th are STILL sitting in solitary confinement in the D.C. jail for MINOR offenses, and now the Democrats want to create a “9/11 style commission” to keep the investigation going and continue the charade.
By the by, there was ONE firearm confiscated from among all the protestors present and arrested that day. Tucker Carlson aired last night video of Jacob Chansley (a.k.a. “Chewbacca Man”; a.k.a. “Q-anon Shaman”) and others politely and peacefully agreeing with police INSIDE THE CAPITOL to remain peaceful as they protested in a bid to have our representatives demand an accurate count for the election.
We’ve long since corrected our past mistakes, but the left won’t let them go. It’s their source of power. Make no mistake. They’re intending to create another lever of guilt with this Juneteenth. You can already see the leftist media coverage coming down the pike.
The LGBT mafia did the same by consecrating June, a traditional month for weddings, as gay pride month to take an annual shot at traditional families as if those are a bad thing. Not all LGBT of course, but the leftists who define the LGBT mafia flaunt decency every year with parades down our public streets performing all sorts of sexually suggestive acts in all manner of undress.
How progressive.
As I said at the top, I have no problem with creating a holiday to commemorate June 19th as the day people want to use to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. We should celebrate that and along with it remember the over 600,000 Americans, mostly white, who died in the Civil War and the sacrifices their widows, fatherless children and orphans endured as a result not to mention the PTSD of the veterans including many amputees.
=====[1] DESCRIPTION OF JUNETEENTH=====
“Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth)[2] – also known as Freedom Day,[3] Jubilee Day,[4] Liberation Day,[5] and Emancipation Day[6] – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States, with varying official recognition. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865 announcement by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas.[7]
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had officially outlawed slavery in Texas and the other states in rebellion against the Union almost two and a half years earlier. Enforcement of the Proclamation generally relied on the advance of Union troops. Texas being the most remote of the slave states had a low presence of Union troops as the American Civil War ended; thus enforcement there had been slow and inconsistent before Granger’s announcement.[7] Although Juneteenth generally celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, it was still legal and practiced in two Union border states (Delaware and Kentucky) until later that year when ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished chattel slavery nationwide in December.[8][9][10][a]“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Not for nothing, but I find it quite ironic that 90% of black people continue to vote for the party that wants to expand the same government that took two and a half years to end slavery.
In fact, as the excerpt states, it persisted in Kentucky and Delaware until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in December. Have no idea why, but it’s an interesting question. Guessing they’re keeping the June 19th date due to its long tradition of celebration.
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The last slaves freed in the United States were in New Jersey, as well as Kentucky and Delaware, when the 13th amendment was ratified and went into effect.
Ironically, New Jersey has adopted Juneteenth starting with this year as well. Somehow I doubt the fact that thirty slaves remained in bondage for another six months down in Gloucester County will be remembered..
Yes. I can only imagine their frustration in learning that their extra six months of forced servitude was forgotten. Talk about getting a raw deal. Not only were you enslaved but the people celebrating the end of slavery for generations to come set up a holiday which completely fails to recognize that you were actually the last slaves to be freed!
Further proof that life isn’t fair.
To your astute list, I would add that no country that wanted to preserve the practice of slavery, that wanted to do anything but pave the way for its unavoidable future abolition, would put the statement “all men are created equal” and are endowed by their creator with “inalienable rights” in its founding documents. Not even if you interpreted “men” to implicitly exclude Africans. The founders were careful and deliberate. If perpetuating slavery had been their intent, they would have left no doubt. Instead, they planted the seeds of its undoing.
Thank you Troy for your comments. Sorry for my delayed response. You are absolutely right! I never really though about it like that, but if we had wanted to build our country on slavery, we would have enshrined the right to enslave others in our founding documents as you say.
Your comment also brings to mind the following clip which demonstrates our founders’ opposition to slavery. It’s from Glenn Beck’s conversation with Dave Rubin wherein Beck talks about the original pieces of American history that he is collecting to preserve.
One part of the preservation is the engraving of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson’s handwriting. It’s very clear both that Jefferson was not a fan of slavery and that our founders were not enamored with the institution…
Correcting Myths of History: What You Aren’t Taught in School | Glenn Beck | POLITICS | Rubin Report
https://youtu.be/Oijbr1i79tA
The relevant part of the video is from 6:00 – 13:00, though the entire 48 minutes is well worth your time.
Of course there are two sides to history, but our American heritage offers many more reasons to hold our heads high and celebrate our history through our holidays rather than hang them in shame as we wallow in guilt while handing control of our country over to a bunch of communists as “just punishment.”
No way. No how.
Beck mentions that he is putting together an online course available for free which will teach more of the history he outlines here while introducing some of the pieces he’s preserved. I’m looking forward to it. Hillsdale College already offers some great courses, for free, on the Constitution and our history in general.
I didn’t expect to be a “rebel” at this age railing against the establishment, but I’m proud to serve my country and its future generations doing just that!
Thank you for the pointer to that Glenn+Dave segment! I hadn’t heard the story of that deleted paragraph of the draft Declaration before and found it most illuminating! Will make time to watch and learn from the whole interview later. Sounds like a worthy and much needed project Beck is working on. I hope it reaches the audience it needs to. Yes, who among us expected to need to be a rebel in our own time, but that’s very much what our founders were in theirs. Meanwhile, those who loudly declare themselves to be “radicals” today turn out to be very much pro-establishment, pro-centralized-state-control, as long as that control is in their infallible, enlightened hands. Life sure is full of ironies that at least keep the journey amusing.
You’re very welcome. Glenn is easily in my top three along with Bill and company. He knows so much about history and politics that he is able to create great presentations in context. I also enjoy his passion for the country, the truth and our collective well-being as Americans.
Sometimes I wonder about the revolutionaries like Washington living in the context of normal lives with normal problems and probably just doing what they felt they had to do. I don’t feel special, and I’ll be they didn’t either. Maybe history will see us differently as it did them. We may not be significant figures in this rebellion, but maybe the Whittle Army will earn a page in the history books for raising our voices. You never know!
P.S. David Barton is another one of my favorites as far as early American history.
Troy, that is such a great point.
I was frustrated once on FB many years ago with someone I did not know personally who chimed in on a discussion that somehow ended up on the 3/5 apportionment clause and how racist and evil it was to define African slaves as only 3/5 of a slave. I educated him about how the 3/5 clause was put in as a compromise (which is by definition imperfect) by the abolitionists to prevent the slave-owning states from having disproportionately more representation in Congress than they should, since slaves could not vote.
He either didn’t believe me or didn’t care, and claimed that the fact we had to fight the Civil War at all proves that the founders and their documents were racists.
This was long before the 1619 project.
I wish I’d thought of your point, that if the founders had wanted to perpetuate slavery, they wouldn’t have used the language they did, because what they said planted the seed to undo it.
I think we too often mistake reaching a reasoned, well-founded conclusion for the goal, when feeling righteous is what more people seem to crave and get satisfaction from. It’s easier and less work to take an emotionally satisfying position that lets one feel good without requiring any further study or effort. (And too often these days people are rewarded with social approval for virtue-signaling such easy emotional stances.) Parallel Thomas Sowell’s observation that we seem to be in the process of replacing what works with what feels good, we too often substitute what feels good for what would produce deeper understanding. I don’t know how possible it is to persuade someone who’s coming at an issue from that position of deriving easy self-satisfaction to look deeper and see more beyond their assumptions, but I suspect there are many among us who didn’t start out where we are now and were reached in that way, so the effort is probably worth it.
I’m more anti-slavery than the left are prepared for. I want every man and woman strong, independent, and sovereign, and want no one to be made subservient to an onerous state that takes the fruits of their labor. Let’s call their bluff and start an Emancipation Party.
I would love to see something more celebratory and positive such as the annual Emancipation Party you suggest! What a great idea. “Are you going to celebrate Juneteenth? Yes. We’re having our annual Emancipation Day party cookout celebrating equality and freedom for all as our founding fathers intended. Why don’t you stop by for a burger and a beer?”
They only control the conversation if we let them!
What a beautiful idea. I was thinking “party” in the political organization sense, but I like your notion better. I look forward to celebrating Emancipation Day and its founding principle: no one’s labor should be taken from them by force, ever.
No forced labor ever is an absolute to be celebrated on Emancipation Day. I would work in equality as well. So tired of the left shoehorning inequality into the conversation about today’s America so they can justify their bogus push for “equity.” Enough with this bottomless well of oppression garbage!
Do you have a counter to the “but the parties have flipped since then” argument?
I sure do!
From the KKK to FDR blocking anti-lynching legislation to LBJ’s “uppity Negroes” to filibustering civil rights to Biden embracing segregationists, here is your daily reminder that DEMOCRATS, not Republicans, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE PARTY OF RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY.
The Democrats fought for slavery, founded the KKK (4 million at its height now less than 10,000), passed all the Jim Crow laws and THERE WAS NO PARTY SWITCH. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a REPUBLICAN. The “party switch” is just a LIE that the FAKE NEWS and the lying Democrats tell. Robert Byrd didn’t repent until much, much later toward the end of his career. Only Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina switched in 1964, and even then, he was hardly a staunch racist:
https://www.heritage.org/commentary/the-last-dixiecrat
“Mr. Crespino includes the 1964 and 1968 stories in his biography but argues that Thurmond’s party switch was racially inspired and served to reinforce the GOP’s “Southern strategy” of seeking only white votes. He writes that in his dozens of campaign speeches for Goldwater in 1964, Thurmond emphasized Goldwater’s vote against the Civil Rights Act earlier that year and predicted that, as president, Goldwater would salvage “the rights of the individual, the rights of the states.” ***But Mr. Crespino omits that, in the last week of the campaign, Goldwater and Thurmond stood side by side in Columbia, S.C., as the Republican candidate condemned segregation and declared that government must treat “all men as equal in the areas of law and civil order.” The speech was broadcast on 87 TV stations throughout the South.”**
Furthermore, Republicans are not just the party of Lincoln founded to fight slavery as a main objective.
Frederick Douglass was a Republican. Booker T. Washington was a Republican. The first black member of all Congress and the first black member of the Senate both served the post-Civil War South and were, you guessed it, Republicans…
Hiram Rhodes Revels (first black member of the Senate and served for the state of Mississippi starting in 1870) and Joseph Hayne Rainey (first black member of all of Congress and served South Carolina in the House of Representatives also starting in 1870).
In fact, Joseph Hayne Rainey was born a slave. Someone should have told him that the legacy of slavery was inescapable.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Hiram+Rhodes+Revels+republican
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Joseph+Hayne+Rainey+republican
Same for Booker T. Washington. Here’s a link to an online copy of his book, “Up from Slavery.” Reading it now. Highly recommend. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2376/2376-h/2376-h.htm#link2HCH0001
Though born a slave, Booker T. built Tuskegee University from the ground up, literally, bricks and all, on a former plantation in segregated Alabama. Opened July 4, 1881.
To perpetuate the lie of systemic racism is to dishonor and disrespect the reputation, ACTUAL sacrifices and accomplishments of all of these black leaders. They were great men and women, which Biden and the rest of the dishonest, manipulative, race-baiting Democrats are not.
Then there’s Democrat hero FDR who killed anti-lynching legislation and interned Japanese-Americans during WWII despite at least some in the military saying it wasn’t necessary.
https://www.aier.org/article/how-fdr-killed-federal-anti-lynching-legislation/
“Significantly, the incarceration program got underway despite a warning; in January 1942, a naval intelligence officer in Los Angeles reported that Japanese-Americans were being perceived as a threat almost entirely “because of the physical characteristics of the people.” Fewer than 3 percent of them might be inclined toward sabotage or spying, he wrote, and the Navy and the FBI already knew who most of those individuals were. Still, the government took the position summed up by John DeWitt, the Army general in command of the coast: ‘A Jap’s a Jap. They are a dangerous element, whether loyal or not.’”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/injustice-japanese-americans-internment-camps-resonates-strongly-180961422/
Then there’s Beijing Biden working with Southern segregationist Dixiecrats like Sen. John Stennis and Sen. James Eastland (both from Mississippi) to preserve segregation and advance his own career.
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/jun/28/joe-bidens-praise-segregationists-spans-decades/
Oh and let’s not forget one of my favorite quotes from a racist Democrat as reported by a black steward on Air Force One.
“I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years.”
* President LBJ in reference to welfare and the Great Society.
LBJ also said this…
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/did-lbj-say-ill-have-those-nggers-voting-democratic-200-years/
Maybe someone with no knowledge of history or access to libraries or the Internet will believe their revisionist history…unless they wipe out history which they’d love to do. It’s about the only way they’ll convince anyone at this point to believe their propaganda.
If Democrats want to end “systemic racism,” which they can never define nor prove, they need to start with themselves. They need to stop defining everything by race to retain power. They have no other solutions, and that’s their problem. All the communists want to do is tear this country down. Even then, they’ll still be miserable and unsatisfied.
But that was a long time ago, and the parties have flipped since then.
No it wasn’t long ago! The Democrats filibustered civil rights legislation. Biden himself worked with segregationists in the 70’s. Name one “racist” Republican. This was President Trump…
“Above all else we must remember this truth. No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first.”
* President Donald J. Trump
* FIRST Speech Addressing the Events in Charlottesvile Bedminster, NJ
At 3:34. From CNN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQWJDVg8PA&t=242s
THE MSM MEDIA LIED…AGAIN, just like they’ve been pushing the party switch lie.
How many times did the liberal MSM, including CNN–WHO RECORDED THIS–paint Trump as a racist in the ensuing months/years? They are spinning lies on this and other issues.
They have lost all credibility. They’d rather divide us along racial lines for money than tell the truth. That’s reprehensible.
Fact of the matter is the Democrats have been keeping blacks on their welfare plantation in the decades since civil rights legislation was passed by playing Santa Claus with our tax dollars and labeling anyone who doesn’t agree with their scheme to “help the poor disadvantaged minoriities” a racist.
Problem is the race card has expired and their decades-long guilt trip is over. All the while they’ve destroyed the black nuclear family and done diddly squat for black people and other minorities they profess to treasure. Yet they falsely claim to be their guardians and defenders from the evil Republicans who dare to embrace personal responsibility and suggest that people make their own way. Now the black community’s eyes are being opened to the fact that the Democrats are complete frauds, and the Democrats are struggling to keep racism alive and they need it like the rest of us need oxygen.
Sweetie, you don’t have to convince ME, but what I’m telling you is that NOTHING you have said will convince a black Democrat to change his or her vote. They don’t want to hear these facts and history. They don’t CARE that Joe Biden said racist things back in the 70s — or even last fall–, or that Kamala Harris’ ancestors owned slaves. They actually said she couldn’t be held responsible for her ancestors’ actions. Seriously, they did. All they know –whether true or not — is that Republicans are racists who want to bring back slavery, and Democrats are there to protect them. Heck, they even blame the poverty and crime in inner cities on “Republican policies”, despite the fact that many of these cities haven’t had any republican leadership in close to 100 years. You can tell them that MLK was a Republican, and they’ll just answer, “Yeah, but the parties have flipped since then. He’d be a Democrat today.”
They will not be reached with lectures on history. They’ll just completely shut down and stop listening. So, the question remains, how do you convince THEM the parties haven’t flipped?
Sorry for the misunderstanding. You certainly play a good intellectually dishonest Democrat.
If someone is brainwashed and unwilling to listen to reason as you describe, I just move on. My target audience are the vast numbers of people who have been conned by the liberal schools or fake news. Most people don’t like to be told lies, and many people will become “red pilled” when they discover exactly how much they’ve been conned. Happens all the time.
I’ll bet most people had no idea that Democrats filibustered civil rights legislation fighting its passage or that Martin Luther King was a Republican. I agree that Kamala Harris bears no responsibility for her ancestors (other than in lefty clown world), but when you connect facts like those I just described to LBJ’s, “We’ll have those n*ggers voting Democrat for 200 years,” to the welfare state to the total failure of Democrat-run cities to intentionally locating abortion clinics in black neighborhoods to their race-baiting identity politics of today, it’s hard for anyone to argue that Democrats haven’t consistently seen black people as black people first and humans second.
Thanks for the clarification. As I said, for the completely brainwashed, not much we can do!
If the LBJ quotation doesn’t faze them, the only thing I can think of is to expose them to current black Republicans who are calling out the Democrats. Probably the most effective one right now is Vernon Jones, who is primary-ing Governor Kemp in Georgia. He is calling out everybody, but most especially racist Democrats and corrupt politicians of every stripe. He is taking on Stacy Abrams and even with the complete connivance of the marxist idealogues masquerading as journalists, I think she’ll never know what hit her.
Another is Diamond & Silk. Both they and Jones speak in the vernacular. Unpolished but very effective. They have very high-functioning BS meters.
But then, it is I who wants to get up and cheer when I hear them, and I am not a black lifelong Democrat voter. So maybe they aren’t persuaive to lifelong Democrat voters of any color.
Yeah, they just call all of those people Uncle Toms. Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell are two of the most brilliant men I know, but even they can’t reach the brainwashed black voter. It’s frustrating to me, because I live in Mississippi and have a lot of black Democrat friends. I want to pound my head against the wall sometimes, watching them vote themselves into oppression over and over again. They are so afraid of being called a traitor to their race, they’ll willingly vote the shackles onto their own ankles, and not even know they’re doing it.
You mean, beyond the fact that it it is a myth? Didn’t think a counter to a lie was necessary.
Yes, I do! It doesn’t matter if you think it’s a myth if THEY believe it! This is why they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, because they believe that Republicans are the racists, the KKK, and the ones who want to bring back slavery. Unless you just want to write the black vote off as a lost cause, you NEED to come up with a counter to that argument.
I am not capable of arguing nonsense. I am not writing off the black vote, I am writing off the dumbass vote. Because I can’t reach them.
The parties didn’t flip. If you think they did, we are at an impasse. If it is nighttime, and you say it is day time, I can tell you that the physical features of what we see define night time, but if you steadfastly hold to your personal belief that it is day time, what more can I do?
Were it up to me, citizenship would not be automatic. But it isn’t. And because citizenship is automatic, and comes with certain unalienable rights, among which is the incontrovertible right to be a dumbass, we are again at an impasse.
When you have a way to convince people that their stridently held belief, despite all evidence, is incorrect, well, then you can move those who simply keep repeating “but the parties flipped”. It was your scenario, not mine. If all they do is respond “but the parties flipped”, then I am talking to a wall. The may as well say ‘It is the Will of Landru.”
Good rant!
You know what word is missing from that Juneteenth Wikipedia article? Republican. The Republican Party of Texas held its first state convention on July, 4 1867 in Houston by 150 black men who had learned of their freedom on Juneteeth. (According to Allen West, in a video he published for Independence Day last summer, when he read the Declaration of Independence aloud.)
Also, a tiny correction: 1870 was not antebellum.
You know that’s a great point. There’s no way in the world that Wikipedia should be eliminating the mention of Republicans when it comes to this. It’s not the first time I’ve seen their bias show. Dinesh D’Souza’s page is another example that springs to mind. Makes him appear a hardened criminal. LOL.
As far as “antebellum,” I was…er…testing you! Yeah that’s it! Congratulations on passing!!!
Heh.
Seriously, do watch the video I linked from Allen West last Independence Day. After the little history lesson of the Republican Party of Texas, he reads it aloud. When was the last time you heard it read aloud? It gave me chills.
I will watch the Allen West video as part of my Memorial Day Weekend festivities. Thank you for linking. Will let you know what I think. Here is one of my favorites. Though the poster admits that some minor details aren’t exactly on point, nothing changes the main points…
Star Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It
https://youtu.be/YaxGNQE5ZLA
Link from the Smithsonian for more accuracy on the historical details in dispute. So proud to be an American.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-behind-the-star-spangled-banner-149220970/