freedom if they would fight for britain and 6,000 american slaves took them up on this so francis scott key writes that a home in a country should leave us no more and their blood has washed and their foul pollution and no refuge could save them from the terror of flight and the gloom of grave. could you imagine anybody singing that as a national anthem. >> there is a reason we let that go. in the nursery rhymes there are things that we let go by and pretend we don't know what they mean. and the third stanza implies that slavery is normal. we don't sing it any more. and it is old and to be honest, i don't think it is a racist song. it was written in a different context a different long time ago and we don't sing that stanza and therefore it is not really there. but more to the point, if you want to scold the country, and you are a person whose main