8.7.23

Jill Scott version of the National Anthem.

3ed verse of the National anthem:

“Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets / That this place doesn’t smile on you colored child / Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands / But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased / Oh say, does this truth hold any weight / This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves!”

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Frankly it breaks my heart that any American would feel such pain