The Star Spangled Banner… From the Black American Perspective

I made a YouTube video using the Star Spangled Banner version by LeAnn Rimes. The American Flag flying in the background…..And what is happening to Black People ‘in the land of the free, and the home of the brave’ is shown in the foreground..

As Frederick Douglass stated in his 4th of July, 1852 speech: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony…”