{"id":577073,"date":"2021-06-30T07:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577073"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:06:42","slug":"gwen-berry-makes-false-claims-about-the-national-anthem-while-complaining-its-disrespectful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gwen-berry-makes-false-claims-about-the-national-anthem-while-complaining-its-disrespectful\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Berry Makes False Claims About The National Anthem While Complaining It\u2019s \u2018Disrespectful\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgwen-berry-makes-false-claims-about-the-national-anthem-while-complaining-its-disrespectful%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=577073&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gwen-Berry-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gwen Berry \u2014 a black track athlete who turned away from the American flag after coming in third place at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Saturday \u2014 claimed that she did so because the national anthem, which was playing, is \u201cdisrespectful\u201d to black Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem. The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America \u2014 our blood being slain \u2026 all over the floor,\u201d Berry <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/29\/olympian-gwen-berry-insists-national-anthem-is-disrespectful-to-black-americans\/\">claimed<\/a> during an interview this week. \u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful, and it does not speak for black Americans.\u201d<br \/><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>However, Berry is wrong. The Star Spangled Banner does not say that and never has.<\/p>\n<p>CNN ran an in-depth analysis on the Star Spangled Banner back in 2018 and gave an analysis of the key lines.<\/p>\n<p>The third verse of the song, which is no longer part of the song, stated <strong>[emphasis is the portion Berry is making claims about]<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,<br \/>That the havoc of war and the battle\u2019s confusion<br \/>A home and a Country should leave us no more?<br \/><strong>Their blood has wash\u2019d out their foul footstep\u2019s pollution.<\/strong><br \/>No refuge could save the hireling and slave<br \/>From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,<br \/>And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave<br \/>O\u2019er the land of the free and the home of the brave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alan Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specializes in the American colonial revolution and early republic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2018\/07\/us\/national-anthem-annotated\/\">told<\/a> CNN that the line \u201cisn\u2019t meant as pro-slavery language.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s referring to the British-poisoned ground \u2013 their polluting presence on American soil,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/10\/18\/star-spangled-banner-racist-national-anthem\/\">published<\/a> an op-ed \/ analysis of the Star Spangled Banner and the \u201cugly reason\u201d that it was not adopted as America\u2019s national anthem for a century.&nbsp;The line that Berry claims was talking about about black people\u2019s blood being slain all over the floor is not mentioned once in the piece because it does not support the narrative that the article is seeking to promote: that some parts of the original Star Spangled Banner were bad.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post piece mentions the last four lines of the third verse as being the part of the song that was problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding those four lines, Mark Clague \u2014 associate professor of musicology and American culture at the University of Michigan and a co-founder of the Star Spangled Music Foundation \u2014 told CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Hirelings were the professional British troops. Key\u2019s mocking them for doing it for the money, along with their stealing and ransoming. They were like pirates. And I think \u201cslaves\u201d is a reference to the Colonial Marines, who were slaves held captive by the Americans that escaped and were offered the opportunity to fight on the British side to earn freedom. \u2018Let me put it another way, it makes no sense\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the early 20th Century, during WWI, all but the first verse was cut because of their anti-British sentiment &nbsp;\u2014 as Britain was an ally of the U.S. President Herbert Hoover later made the song the national anthem in 1931.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Berry \u2014 a black track athlete who turned away from the American flag after coming in third place at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Saturday \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313710,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gwen-Berry-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gwen Berry Makes False Claims About The National Anthem While Complaining It\u2019s \u2018Disrespectful\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Gwen-Berry-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gwen Berry Makes False Claims About The National Anthem While Complaining It\u2019s \u2018Disrespectful\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577073","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}