Racism is very much alive now-a-days as it was years ago, I am pretty sure some people think it has gone away when in reality it is just getting back to the point where people are losing their lives over their skin color and appearance. The government wants to force blacks to pledge poems that do not apply to everyone, and you would think they would care to hear what they have to say about it but instead they try to blame THEM for their actions and also our own. Honestly african americans have many reasons to protest the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance and law enforcement due to pervasive racial discrimination, which is why we have created a movement called Black Lives Matter. I believe a lot of people do not know ALL of the history behind our National Anthem, because only less than half of the story about it is taught in schools (jason), except for when it became The National Anthem for the U.S on March 3rd in 1931. Before it was called ‘The National Anthem” or “The Star Spangled Banner” it was originally entitled as “ Defence of Fort M’Henry” (klein), first written on September 14th 1814 by Francis Scott Key (“the national anthem”). As everyone knows the first verse of the anthem, have you ever went on to learn the rest? Of course not, because then you would see how Key was taking pleasure in the deaths of freed black slaves who had fought with the British against the U.S (willingham). The third verse reads “And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That