Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets
hat this place doesn’t smile on you colored child
Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands
But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased
Oh say, does this truth hold any weight
This is not the land of the free,
but the home of the slaves!
hat this place doesn’t smile on you colored child
Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands
But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased
Oh say, does this truth hold any weight
This is not the land of the free,
but the home of the slaves!
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Una versione di The Star Spangled Banner, l'inno nazionale statunitense, cantato da Jill Scott durante l'Essence Festival 2023 a New Orleans.
La versione riscritta da Jill Scott è antirazzista e antinazionalista e ovviamente ha suscitato le proteste del partito repubblicano.
Jill Scott racconta di aver scritto le parole a diciannove anni ma di averla cantata solo ora che ne ha 51.