The hero to all those who believe America is rotten has penned his own version of the Star Spangled Banner
San Francisco Forty Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced Sunday that he would continue to sit or kneel during the playing of the national anthem.
However, the hero to all those who believe America is rotten said he would stand if a band played the anthem as he has penned it. This is his version:
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
Cops murdering people of color at the twilight's last gleaming,
Black Panthers defending African-Americans through the perilous fight
With our smartphone cameras we watch'd
Cops shooting unarmed black men for no reason
And the gunfire’s red glare, the shots bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that to white cops black lives do not matter
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of oppressed African-Americans and the home of the Ku Klux Klan
The National Football League announced it supported Kaepernick 100 percent for standing up by sitting down. The NFL also revealed that Beyonce had volunteered to sing Kaepernick’s anthem. However, so far the league has been unable to find a band willing to play it.
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