R&B Singer Turns National Anthem into Awful, Angry Tirade Against America – RedState
An R&B singer destroyed the national anthem Sunday at the New Orleans’ “Essence Festival,” turning the song honoring our nation into an angry rant about how awful it is.
Written by poet Francis Scott Key in 1814 to celebrate the United States’ victory over British forces in the War of 1812, the Star Spangled Banner went on to be adopted as our national anthem and has become a symbol of love and hope. Not to Jill Scott, though, who turned the inspirational lyrics into a hateful diatribe.
She raged into the microphone in overwrought, drawn-out verses, intending to come across as passionate but mostly appearing as if she had a really bad stomach ache:
Oh say, can you see, by the blood in the streets
That this place doesn’t smile on you, colored child
Whose blood built this land
With s...