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By Gary Freeman

The truth about the Star-Spangled Banner

Only the first stanza of John Stafford Smith’s composition makes up the anthem – other stanzas of the song recognizing the birth of a nation expose the hypocrisy of slavery that lie at its core

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It's as if an alien spacecraft called The Apocalypse has crash-landed in the capital and their orange leader alighted and strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue where he had vowed hed end up.

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