{"id":1541271,"date":"2022-07-06T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541271"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:49:56","slug":"scar-mangled-banner-bidens-inaugural-poet-rewrites-national-anthem-for-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scar-mangled-banner-bidens-inaugural-poet-rewrites-national-anthem-for-july-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scar-Mangled Banner\u2019: Biden\u2019s Inaugural Poet Rewrites National Anthem For July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscar-mangled-banner-bidens-inaugural-poet-rewrites-national-anthem-for-july-4%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Amanda Gorman, who read a poem at President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration and was feted as the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, decided to rewrite the words of the national anthem for July 4, calling the American flag the \u201cscar-mangled banner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gorman stated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/20\/opinion\/amanda-gorman-poem-inauguration.html\">The New York Times<\/a> that she had been \u201cterrified on a physical level\u201d about performing at Biden\u2019s inaugural, saying, \u201cI\u00a0<em>did <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>know at the inauguration I was going to become highly visible \u2014 which is a very dangerous thing to be in America, especially if you\u2019re Black and outspoken and have no Secret Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she published her version of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner,\u201d which read:<\/p>\n<p><em>O say can we see, by the Gone\u2019s early flight, What so loudly we failed at the mornlight\u2019s past gleaming, Whose flawed stripes and strifed scars, through the perilous plight, Our wan hearts, we watched, stirred and valiantly screaming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the rifle\u2019s dread glare, bullets bursting in air, Gave truth in our sight that our flag was not spared. O say does that scar-mangled banner yet save Our land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(2\/2) And the rifle\u2019s dread glare, bullets bursting in air,<br \/>Gave truth in our sight that our flag was not spared.<br \/>O say does that scar-mangled banner yet save<br \/>Our land of the free and the home of the brave?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAmandaGorman\/status\/1544163633655005185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to Weird Al for his work as Youth Poet Laureate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jTdYCRDlbx\">https:\/\/t.co\/jTdYCRDlbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy H.J. Nerozzi \u5ead\u5922 (@TimothyNerozzi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimothyNerozzi\/status\/1544328043225030656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The national anthem has come under fierce criticism from members of the Left for some time; in the midst of the 2020 riots, author Daniel E. Walker posited, \u201cI do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem, because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Activist Kevin Powell suggested replacing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d with John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/why-it-might-be-time-to-replace-the-star-spangled-banner-with-a-new-national-anthem-023741108.html\">Yahoo<\/a> reported at the time: \u201cPowell, for his part, suggests John Lennon\u2019s Imagine, which he says is \u2018the most beautiful, unifying, all-people, all-backgrounds-together kind of song you could have.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in hip-hop,\u201d Powell added, \u201cand I remember how people would criticize hip-hop for being violent. Yet \u2018The Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 is\u00a0riddled\u00a0with violence. How are you criticizing a rap song for being violent, but when we get to kindergarten, we are literally teaching children violence through song? I said, \u2018I can\u2019t participate anymore.\u2019 So I stopped a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Gorman, who read a poem at President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration and was feted as the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, decided to rewrite the words of the national anthem for July 4, calling the American flag the \u201cscar-mangled banner.\u201d Gorman stated in The New York Times that she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1541366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}