No More Kneeling

To the Editor:

Patrick Henry was a white man, a colonist, who wished to be fee from slavery to the British Empire. The freedom he wanted was just that, for him death was better than slavery to the British Empire.

The Revolutionary war was a war of freedom from British slavery. Enabled by God, the colonists were able to free themselves.

Then 34 years later the British tried to enslave a sovereign nation, the United States of America. The USA had become too much of a competitor in world trade. Wars were about control of the high seat. In 1814 Francis Scott Key was detained on a British frigate as the British bombarded Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD.

Let us join him as he stood at the rail; he stood there from dusk to dawn. As the bombs lighted up the sky, he could see the flag waving above the fort. Each time he saw the flag, his spirit soared. Maybe he called to the prisoners to tell them or maybe he just cheered silently.

When dawn finally came, the Star Spangled Banner was still flying high. What a marvelous sight.

The third verse of the Star Spangled Banner has absolutely, positively, nothing whatsoever to do with black slavery.

Socrates drank poison after he refused to kneel to their gods and he corrupted youth by teaching them to think for themselves.

College administrators, staffs, teachers, NFL officials are kneeling to their gods (students, athletes) They do not dare teach anyone to think for themselves least they be forced to drink the bitter poison of being fired.

Ellene Williamson

Flatonia