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Black Leaders in Maryland Call for the Destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge - the Dead White Male Who Wrote Our National Anthem -  in Nearly 70% Black Baltimore to be Renamed in Honor of an Obscure Black Politician

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Francis Scott Key is one of the great American men who ever lived. He was a founding member of the American Colonization Society, which sought to remove freed black people from the USA and assist them in returning to Africa. Had this organization succeeded in its mission to repatriate free blacks to Africa, what do you think Baltimore – a near 70 percent black city in 2024 – would like today? What would America be like were Key and the members of the ACS successful in their stated mission?

Doesn’t matter, sadly. It’s all wishful thinking. In 2024 Baltimore, a ship full of Indians just knocked the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and now, black leaders in Maryland believe the rebuilt bridge should cease being named in honor because he “demeaned black people.”[Key Bridge name should change, civil rights groups say, The Baltimore Banner, April 8, 2024]:

The Caucus of African American Leaders has unanimously voted to ask that when the Francis Scott Key Bridge is rebuilt, it no longer bear the name of the national anthem’s author.

The consortium of Civil Rights groups includes the NAACP, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and others. It voted to recommend changing the name of the Key Bridge because it honors a man who enslaved African Americans and wrote lyrics that scholars have found “demeaned Black people.”

The 47-year-old Key Bridge was toppled by a massive cargo ship in the early-morning hours of March 26. Federal and state leaders have vowed to rebuild the Patapsco River crossing.

The caucus is now calling on Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland General Assembly to rename the bridge after the late U.S. Rep. Parren J. Mitchel l, the first African American from Maryland elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

The caucus is also asking that the Senator Frederick Malkus Memorial Bridge, a beam bridge over the Choptank River in Dorchester County, be renamed for the late Gloria Richardson, a Civil Rights pioneer and leader in Maryland. The late Gov. Harry R. Hughes opposed naming the bridge for Malkus, who was resistant to desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the group.

In addition, the group has also called on Moore to create a memorial to those who died when the Key Bridge collapsed.

Francis Scott Key remains a polarizing figure. Best known for writing the text of the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner,” his legacy has also been clouded by accusations of racism.

As a lawyer, Key helped Black Marylanders sue for their freedom prior to emancipation, but he later abhorred the thought of free Black citizens in America so much that he fought to send them to Liberia.

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In later years, Key regretted that he had helped Black Marylanders sue for their freedom, saying it had “produced for them nothing but evil,” and claimed he could not “remember more than two instances, out of this large number, in which it did not appear that the freedom I so earnestly sought for them was their ruin.” He called Black Americans “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.”

The caucus plans to formally give Moore its request this week, but will further discuss the issue during its quarterly meeting with the governor. That will occur some time after the legislative session is over, according to Carl O. Snowden, convener of the Caucus of African American Leaders.

“There will be some opposition to this, which we can anticipate. That goes without saying,” he said.

Moore did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

No longer can we honor Dead White Males in America, even when those white males long gone wrote our National Anthem. The Great Replacement wasn’t just about displacing white people from our major cities, but renaming every road, street, school, building, and bridge once celebrating Dead White Males, with a black individual.

That’s America in 2024.

Francis Scott Key tried to free America from the burden of a racial group we are told represent our greatest asset, when he knew they were truly our greatest liability. Had the American Colonization Society been successful, what do you think America would be like today?

Well, for one thing, free of the burden of babysitting a racial group existing as a collective detriment to the advancement of our civilization.

 
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  1. Mr. XYZ says:

    No longer can we honor Dead White Males in America, even when those white males long gone wrote our National Anthem. The Great Replacement wasn’t just about displacing white people from our major cities, but renaming every road, street, school, building, and bridge once celebrating Dead White Males, with a black individual.

    That’s America in 2024.

    Francis Scott Key tried to free America from the burden of a racial group we are told represent our greatest asset, when he knew they were truly our greatest liability. Had the American Colonization Society been successful, what do you think America would be like today?

    Well, for one thing, free of the burden of babysitting a racial group existing as a collective detriment to the advancement of our civilization.

    If long-dead white men should be cancelled for being out-of-step with the modern times, then when exactly are, say, Muslims going to cancel Muhammad?

    • Replies: @Richard B
  2. Just for shits and giggles, have the blacks design and build the bridge (payment upon satisfactory completion).

  3. Rebel Roy says:

    Paul Kersey,I bought several of your books which were great.But like Jared Taylor you seem to talk only about the symptom(the violent Blacks)but never once mention the cause(the Jews).When talking about how Blacks ruined Birmingham how about mentioning that it was the Jews who really changed things.The Jews have total control of media and wealth and our politicians and made race mixing happen.The Blacks would never be able to do that.MLK had his Jewish handlers,the NAACP was run by Jews and still is where it counts.Until you start mention the why things happen the I will skip the boring drone of Blacks doing Black things.Start addressing why these animals are put on us.

  4. Godly6 says:

    Honestly who cares. This isn’t a white country anymore so why shouldn’t the stupid name change? Name it big black cock wakanda bad boss nigga bridge or something.

  5. edd says:

    Let’s name it after that awe inspiring citizen Freddy Gray

    • Replies: @Piglet
  6. Repatriation to Africa was the most popular solution to the race problem that the greed of the southern aristocracy perpetuated in the United States. Most who had an opinion on the matter saw the problem as the African presence itself, which they deemed corrosive both to white men’s morals and to their ability to receive fair wages for their labor. Far from being the abolitionist lunatic of the southern fake news media, Lincoln also thought blacks and whites too different to be able to live together in harmony. As late as four days before his murder, he received favorably a suggestion from one of his generals to settle black veterans and their families in Costa Rica. But thanks to Booth, we’ll never know what might have been. An ethnic cleansing of that magnitude was doable then; the final solution of the Indian problem was already well on the way to its successful conclusion. Lincoln was the only politician with the stature to stand up to the Abolitionist radicals who infested his government. They had been voted into office in unprecedented numbers largely by Americans eager to punish the south by compelling the traitors to live as equals with their former chattel. They all but destroyed Andrew Johnson for trying to carry out what he saw as his predecessor’s policies.

    • Replies: @PvtCharlieSlate
  7. AceDeuce says:

    Yesterday, it was cold and rainy all day. I caught a rerun episode of a travel show about Budapest,The credits said that the episode was from 2004. One segment, especially, caught my notice.

    After the Communists were ousted, the Hungarians removed all of the Soviet-installed statues, plaques, etc. from their installed locations in the city and stuck them all in a park on the outskirts of town. The park is meant to serve as a victory symbol of Hungary now being free from Communism, as well as a “never again” reminder to never let it happen again.

    The reason I ‘m mentioning this is what the narrator, in 2004, said about this park:

    “When regimes fall, so do their monuments.”

    Indeed.

    • Thanks: Cauchemar du Singe
  8. usNthem says:

    Like we couldn’t see this coming from a million miles away…

    He called black Americans a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community. Truer words were never spoken – thank God he can’t see what his former beautiful city has devolved to – and for the very reason he stated…

    • Replies: @Pythas
  9. HT says:

    The truth is maintaining slavery was a better option than allowing freed blacks to destroy civilization which is exactly what is happening. If slavery was to be ended it should have never resulted in blacks becoming US citizens but instead being returned to their home.

    • Agree: Cauchemar du Singe
  10. Everyday, it seems like this country revolves around negroes. And White people appear only too happy to cater to them. Nauseating.

    • Agree: usNthem
    • Replies: @Gore 2004
  11. The Caucus of African American Leaders has unanimously voted to ask that when the Francis Scott Key Bridge is rebuilt, it no longer bear the name of the national anthem’s author.

    Whitey rebuilds the bridge so joggers can rename it.

    • Replies: @Katrinka
  12. loren says:

    off topic/ zero hedge

    New England Hospitals Stop Reporting Newborns With Drugs In System Because It “Disproportionately Affects Black Individuals”
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    THURSDAY, APR 04, 2024 – 05:00 PM
    A New England hospital system has stopped automatically filing state welfare reports when a baby is born with drugs in its system, because it “disproportionately affects black individuals.”

    affects or incriminates…hmmmm

    • LOL: Lancelot_Link
  13. Gore 2004 says:
    @Rocky Road

    Whites should have left Blacks alone in Africa, not take them to be slaves in America and Brazil, this stuff would not be happening today……that is a fact…..

    • Agree: Rocky Road
  14. Here’s a video from the future when the bridge is about to open.

    • LOL: Richard B, Katrinka
    • Replies: @Anon
    , @AnalogMan
  15. It hardly matters. It’s not like the bridge will ever be rebuilt.
    Money will be spent of course, lots of it, but no bridge.
    This is not a country where things get done.

    Maybe they will clear the rubble and reopen the port. Maybe.

    • Agree: AlmaMater
  16. ByTheBook says:

    The  blacks started this Cancel Francis Scott Key Campaign a while ago, before the bridge was hit. Their asinine song “Lift Every Voice And Sing” is called the black national anthem by the NAACP. Our National Anthem, with words written by Key aren’t good enough for blacks. So just get rid of all traces of things that offend these children.

    Everything they have, the lives they now enjoy ate due to the white culture that freed them, gave them the world’s best legal system, healthcare system, food, housing, transportation, you name it. Yet they have to dismiss it all as built on white supremacy. Damn right it was.  And with pride too! What other race would you want behind so many highly-functioning systems? They should thank whites every day that they ate here and not stewing in an African hellhole.

    We all knew this bridge name change was coming. Idiots with a little bit of power are still idiots. And many of them live in Maryland.

  17. HT says:
    @Gore 2004

    Whites should have left Blacks alone in Africa, not take them to be slaves in America and Brazil, this stuff would not be happening today……that is a fact…..

    The slave traders were mostly Muslim and Jewish and other blacks generally captured the ones sold as slaves. Whites were basically just the end consumer in the process but of course they get all the demonization.

    • Replies: @kerdasi amaq
  18. @Gore 2004

    The New World slavers were not “White”, they were Khazarian descent jews that bought them from African Blacks that sold their conquered enemies, loaded them up on mostly jew owned slave ships and sold them at jew owned auction house in Savannah, Charleston etc. to mostly jew plantation owners, and to some free Blacks.

    The current jew/ Negro parasitic infection needs surgical removal, else the host dies.
    It may already be too late to save the host from Tikkun Olam toxins.

    • Replies: @Sick n' Tired
  19. @Observator

    “The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed … Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.” – Otto von Bismarck

    “He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the ‘bonds’ of States … and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.” – Otto von Bismarck

    “The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.” – Otto von Bismarck

    • Replies: @Curle
  20. Same crap in the UK.

    From the Lloyd’s of London to the Groids of London.

    • Replies: @usNthem
  21. Piglet says:
    @edd

    There’s already a rec center in duh hood that’s named in his “honor” but why should that keep his name off the bridge?

  22. Anon[408] • Disclaimer says:
    @Sick n' Tired

    Hahaha that actually gave me a good belly chuckle. A 20ft foot bridge over a small ravine with gently flowing water and it deserved a ribbon cutting ceremony! The guys on Gold Rush build a bigger makeshift bridge than that every week, and theirs can withstand excavators and fully loaded dump trucks! I’ve said it a million times, folks we are not the same!

    -Rooster

  23. Richard B says:
    @Mr. XYZ

    Black Leaders in Maryland Call for the Destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge – the Dead White Male Who Wrote Our National Anthem – in Nearly 70% Black Baltimore to be Renamed in Honor of an Obscure Black Politician

    Only on the condition that blacks build it. Ooops!

    All I can say is, Watch out for the water!

    I can see the headlines now.

    Fight Breaks Out During The Building of Parren J. Mitchel Bridge. 50 Drown!
    White Supremacy To Blame!

  24. @Cauchemar du Singe

    It’s one fact about slavery that is conveniently left out of the history books. They’ll tell you the names of the horrible slave ships that brought them over, but never the names of the owners or underwriters of those ships. The ships operated on the basic principle of:

    1. Bring & sell slaves from Africa to Caribbean/Brazil/US

    2. Pick up Sugar/Rum/Spices

    3. Sell/trade sugar/rum/spices in US for cotton/tobacco

    4. Sell/trade cotton/tobacco in New England/England/Europe

    5. Sail from Europe to Africa, pick up more slaves, repeat steps 1-4.

    There’s a reason the slave markets were closed on Saturday.

    • Agree: Gallatin
    • Replies: @Catahoula Parish
  25. Richard B says:
    @Colin Wright

    Posted my comment, scrolled down, and saw yours. You beat me to it. Then again, I’m sure there’s an awful lot of convergence of opinion on this one, for obvious reasons.

  26. “Francis Scott Key tried to free America from the burden of a racial group we are told represent our greatest asset, when he knew they were truly our greatest liability. Had the American Colonization Society been successful, what do you think America would be like today?”

    The negro is the second biggest liability in America, the jew is the number one. Without the latter, the former would be under control.

    A new bridge will never be built, because by the time they get around to approving it, nobody in the US will know how to carry out such a big project and there won’t be any money left to hire the Russians or the Chinese to do it.

    • Agree: AR in Illinois
  27. @Colin Wright

    “Just for shits and giggles, have blacks design and build the bridge (payment upon satisfactory completion).”

    Lol. First of all, no black org would have the money to finance the building of a bridge nor would they have any engineers capable of designing one or workers capable of actually building it. Which means the Feds would front the money which means there’d be an explosion of blacks driving around in lime green Cadillacs, sporting pimp clothing and bling and going on numerous Caribbean cruises. Subsequent investigations as to where all the stolen money went would be met with screeches of “dat’s racist!” About the best you could expect from such an effort would be classrooms full of elementary school niglets being told to draw pictures of da bridge dey be wantin’ which would then be featured in newspaper articles about how blacks done builted de country in de firs’ place.

    I mention all the above just as my way of saying, “don’t give them any ideas!” Which, of course, will be followed by, “damn it! see what you’ve started!?!”

    • LOL: usNthem
  28. Pythas says:
    @usNthem

    Blacks were not even considered Americans back then nor should they have been. Here’s a race that did not even come to these shores on their own volition…They were transported by Europeans. Financed probably by the kikes. Hence they are alien-outlanders. Never has a shit race done so little for the world but has received so much. European men has done more for these ungrateful bastards then these coolies have done for themselves for the thousands of years these negroes have been living in sub-saharan afroland. So to hell with them.

    • Agree: Non PC Infidel
  29. Or just pretend Key was black.

    Worked with Hamilton.

  30. “The Caucus of African American Leaders”

    Wow, such an official sounding and potentially influential group of blacks.

    Odd how they place such emphasis on re-labeling bridges as opposed to addressing the overwhelmingly more serious matters such as the murder, robbery, rape and assault crimes committed by those they represent.

    Changing bridge names accomplishes nothing. The real task is improving black behavior – something impossible to fix.

    …have the blacks design and build the bridge…

    Here is an example of African bridge repair.

    Europeans built this bridge in Ethopia centures ago, then abandoned it. Locals never rebuilt the bridge, instead using ropes to cross it.
    byu/Jaernregn inpics

  31. Katrinka says:
    @Sam Hildebrand

    White men can get along without rebuilding the damn thing. Just don’t rebuild it. If the joggers want a bridge let them get their own lazy sorry asses up there doing the work. Ssheeesh.

  32. usNthem says:
    @Priss Factor

    Maybe someone can come up with a catchy rewording of Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London – ah-hoo, negroids of London…

    • Replies: @Pastit
    , @Priss Factor
  33. loren says:

    o t

    800 black women

    More than 800 Black women – including Lashana Lynch and Sheila Atim – and non-binary actors signed an open letter in support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who has been the target of online racial abuse following the announcement of her casting as Juliet in a London West End production of Romeo & Juliet. She is set to star alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo in the play.

  34. Curle says:

    but he later abhorred the thought of free Black citizens in America so much that he fought to send them to Liberia.

    This statement from the Baltimore Banner is nonsensical.

    Fought who? The whole point of the ACS was to create a situation where slaves willing to relocate to Liberia could earn their freedom through work. But, in all instances, the decision to enter into the agreement to gain freedom in exchange for removal was voluntarily made by the slave.

  35. Curle says:
    @PvtCharlieSlate

    There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

    Since it was bankers and railroad men who put Lincoln on the throne in the first place, Bismarck’s claim, if it was Bismarck, is a little odd. There’s little doubt however that something was off with Lincoln’s assassination given that it put a lunatic, Thaddeus Stevens, in control of the government.

  36. @Sick n' Tired

    Here is a partial list of Jew owned slave ships; ‘Abigail’ by Aaron Lopez, Moses Levy and Jacob Franks. ‘Crown’ by Isaac Levy and Nathan Simpson. ‘Nassau’ by Moses Levy. ‘Anne & Eliza’ by Justus Bosch & John Abrams. ‘Antigua’ by Nathan Marston & Abram Lyell. ‘Expedition’ by John and Jacob Rosevelt. Of the approximately one hundred and ten million slaves shipped from Africa only eleven million reached the colonies alive. During the six months journey the slaves were chained below and living in their own filth for the entire trip, disease was rampant. For the most part the slave trade was a Jew (Marano) enterprise and directed mostly from Newport RI. The Jew Arron Lopez had control of over more than half of the combined slave deals carried out in the colony of Rhode Island.

  37. AnalogMan says:
    @Sick n' Tired

    The ribbon was all that was holding the bridge up. Cutting it was a mistake.

    • LOL: Oil 'n Water
  38. Pastit says:

    No. Do not rename the bridge after an obscure negro. This elimination of White historical figures needs to stop. It is another effort by the Jew canal to denigrate and erase White peoples and their accomplishments. Who caress if Key had negro slaves. He is a monumental historical figure who should be honored. Stop the Jew canal from destroying White America!

  39. Pastit says:
    @usNthem

    Well we all know what Model Citizen was about.

  40. Gallatin says:

    It might be safer to just build a new highway around the bay instead of a bridge, or even a tunnel under the bay.
    If the United States gets into a hot war with a peer competitor, a bridge is a inviting target, and much more easily destroyed. It’s destruction can block the bay.

    As a compromise, I would suggest all new bridges, tunnels, and highways from here forward not be named for any person unless they pay for 10% or more of its construction. In fact naming rights and signage could be bidded on just like football stadiums that might help pay for its upkeep.

  41. @HT

    Libtards gain political power by guilt-tripping over slavery.

    That is the essence of their scam. It works because nobody stands up to them. They’re afraid of losing votes.

  42. @usNthem

    Wereapes of London.

    • LOL: usNthem
    • Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
  43. @Gore 2004

    It was Blacks and Muslims who captured and enslaved other Blacks during intertribal/religious warfare and sold them to European slavers on the west coast of Africa. Without that crucial link there would have been no slave trade. Also, freed Blacks and Injuns owned Black slaves. It was never a White vs Black thing exclusively. Hundreds of thousands of White Europeans were brought to this country as slaves called indentured servants as punishment for unpaid debts and petty “crimes” like being poor, unemployed or just Irish.

    Aside from that I think the bridge should be named “Big Throbbing Rapey Penis Of Mandingo”. I think the Blacks would really go for that.

    • LOL: Non PC Infidel
  44. @Priss Factor

    • Replies: @Pastit
  45. Pastit says:
    @JohnnyWalker123

    He hit the nail on the head regarding not understanding the consequences of actions. That statement is demonstrated in the present by blacks refusing and fighting or shooting at police. Blacks seem to lack the understanding that those actions may very well result in their death, as they often do. The recent case of that Reed kid who refused to follow police orders and shot first, and was then fired upon 96 times resulting in his death. What was that boy thinking.,,,

  46. Well if they want to rename (viz “own”) the new bridge, then let them build it themselves.

    I’m sure some version of the brand new Monkeytown Bridge can be rigged together using banana peels, used crack pipes, and the bodies of murdered white women.

    • LOL: AR in Illinois
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