A 106-year-old statue honoring Star Spangled Banner writer Francis Scott Key was defaced in Baltimore early Wednesday.
Officials say they received a report that the monument had been vandalized around 6:30 a.m., painted with the words, "Racist Anthem."
The ground near the monument was also painted with the the third stanza of Key's anthem which states, "No refuge could save, Hireling or slave From terror of flight, Or gloom of grave," The Baltimore Sun reported.
Key's monument is made mostly of marble, with a gold base and a gold statue of the famed anthem written on top. Police say the monument was tagged with black lettering and red paint.
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Gov. Hogan opened the doors for this to happen. SHAME on Hogan!!!
Are they going to stop killing each other all night long now? Are they going to speak regular English and get jobs now? Are they going to raise their children properly, giving them a work ethic and teaching them respect for right vs. wrong?
Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile!
Get ready people, it's going to get a lot worse
Waiting for Ben Jealous to decry this vandalism, but continuing to breathe regularly in the interim.
Only if our Governor had a backbone. Shame on you for denying history. America is great and never forget it.
Born hostile
As my mother use to say give those thugs an inch and they think they are Rulers. When are the head honcho's going to get off their -ss and start making people be accountable for their actions?????
Buy more ammo.
Just saw on the news that these losers have covered the statue of Thomas Jefferson with black plastic(?) and a sign that says he is a racist.
I told you --- they will not stop. EVERYTHING we stand for is under attack by people who still play HALO and have no clue about anything other than what they can get for free.
Soon, the mentality will be "if they won't GIVE it to us, we will TAKE it from them!!". Guarantee it.
And I have to wonder if it's being played out so easily, is it the REAL plan to incite revolt and civil unrest??
I mean, if I throw a rock at the Lincoln Memorial or ANY place like that, the police are on me like glue. These losers can spend 20 minutes (under lights!) spray painting the statue and defacing it and not a single cop or citizen said or did anything? I'm calling BS on the entire response to these things from governments around the country.
Don't believe it? Go try hanging just a small sign around the neck of Lincoln at his memorial.
Have someone ready to post bail.
Did I mention buy ammo? ASAP.
Keep cheering.
Evidently just the word "slave" is offensive to some, even when used as a descriptive term for those just as defenseless as everyone else against the British tyranny.
It was on this day in 1814 that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner," by witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. It had been a dark summer for the young United States. Just three weeks previous, on August 24, British troops had set fire to much of Washington, D.C., including the Capitol, the Treasury, and the president's house. President James Madison had been forced to flee for his safety. Americans were terrified that the British might choose to invade New York or Philadelphia or Boston and destroy those cities as well.
The British had recently begun using rockets, a new military weapon adapted from Chinese technology. Francis Scott Key was horrified as he watched these rockets raining down on Fort McHenry, at the mouth of Baltimore Harbor. He watched the bombardment all night, and he had little hope that the American fort would withstand the attack. But just after sunrise on September 14th, he saw the American flag still flying over the fort. In fact, Francis Scott Key might never have even seen the flag if the fort commander, Major Armistead, hadn't insisted on flying one of the largest flags then in existence. The flag flying that day was 42 feet long and 30 feet high.
Francis Scott Key began writing a poem about the experience that very morning. It turned out that the battle at Baltimore was the turning point of the war. Before the war, the American flag had little sentimental significance for most Americans. It was used mainly as a way to designate military garrisons or forts. But after the publication of "The Star-Spangled Banner," even non-military people began to treat the flag as a sacred object.
Easier to deface a monument than to stop the crime, or create jobs, or improve schools.
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