Hey Siri do white nationalists like the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a song that explicitly says God was on the side of the North during the Civil War and that the fighters for the North would "die to make men free"
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We have achieved a new level of social media here. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a white nationalist anthem"
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(“The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the stars—
And we’ll rally round the flag, boys, we’ll rally once again,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom”)
https://youtu.be/Ez9Emsj7cas
Recontextualizing the song disrupts its power & historical record as a song of protest, abolition, and action. Appropriation’s a strategy.
My strongest memory of it is when the National Prayer Service on Sept 14, 2001 closed with it. https://youtu.be/I9Y9NGXxdAg?si=xoTESrOYwHl0BJfg
I mean i can understand it being co-opted by christian evangelicals and shit but yeah it is not a white supremacist song?!
Teacher hit me with a ruler…
…Wait, that’s not how it goes?
And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through
They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew,
But his soul is marching on.