ACTIVISTS SUGGEST THAT AMERICA REPLACE THE "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" WITH JOHN LENNON´S "IMAGINE" AS NAT’l ANTHEM

Activists, historians and journalists have actually suggested that the Star Spangled Banner be permanently replaced. Because they claim that the author of the iconic anthem, Francis Scott Key was a slave owner. And therefore, the further assert, such an anthem will not resonate with black Americans and other minorities.

According to a report in the UK Daily Mail, these agenda driven “activists” want the national anthem to be replaced with the song “Imagine” by the late British pop star, John Lennon.
The first suggestion of such a change was made by historian Daniel E. Walker and activist/journalist Kevin Powell, as was reported by the Daily Mail. The two proffered this idea to Yahoo Music Editor Lyndsey Parker in an article that the latter wrote titled, ‘Why it Might be Time to Finally Replace The Star-Spangled Banner with a New National Anthem.’    

They assert that Francis Scott Key was not only a white man who owned slaves but made “overtly racist remarks” according to the Daily Mail report.

The report went on to say that “it is no longer appropriate that lyrics he wrote should still be the national anthem given the ongoing cultural reckoning and recognizing of systemic racism in America.”
Powell claims that Lennon’s song, “Imagine” would be a suitable replacement for the 206 year old song that was written during the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore because it is the ‘most beautiful, unifying, all-people, all-backgrounds-together kind of song you could have,’ as was reported by the Daily Mail. The Star Spangled Banner became the official American national anthem in 1931.