Well, that didn’t take long. The Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore early Tuesday after being struck by a cargo ship, and the bodies of all the victims have not even been recovered yet. The economic catastrophe now facing Baltimore will certainly last months, but it has the potential to harm the region for years. Grieving families are still processing the loss of their loved ones even as investigators try to piece together what happened.
Yet the Associated Press thought now would be a good time to bring up the history of the bridge’s namesake—”Star-Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key—and drag up his ties to slavery. Because what better time than in the aftermath of a horrific accident is there to try to make the story about racism when it has absolutely nothing to do with race?
That’s our laughingstock national press today, folks.
Why do we never hear about black slave owners and there names and the amount of slaves they had and sold to other slave owners ? You know why ? It doesn’t fit the narrative that they are trying to push. Why do they always want to go back 150-200 years ago and bring stuff back up. American history has had its good points and bad. Just like every other country / time period on this earth. Why do “they” want to erase history but then again bring it right back up. You learn from history and you try not to make the same mistakes that others have made in the past. If you keep picking at the same scab, it will never heal.
All this is called American history, the good and the bad.