Taking a fine-tooth comb to the national anthem reveals a nasty detail, according to The Intercept.
That website -- which brands itself as writing "Fearless, adversarial journalism" -- zeroed in on one part of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in an article called "Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery" by Jon Schwarz.While we usually sing just the first verse of the song, Schwarz wrote, the third verse "literally celebrates the murder of African-Americans.""No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave," that verse goes, "And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.