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Speaker 1: The l A Times just ran a long piece by

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Speaker 1: Jody Rosen calling for a new national anthem. Now. He

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Speaker 1: notes at last month San Francisco protesters pulled down the

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Speaker 1: statue Francis Scott Key in Golden Gate Park. Scott Key

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Speaker 1: wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner that the

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Speaker 1: left now calls racist. Besides, very few singers can do

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Speaker 1: justice to that difficult too, and it's a British melody anyway,

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Speaker 1: so the anthem has to go. Now what should replace it? Well?

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Speaker 1: Mr Rosen claims that songs like lift Every Voice and

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Speaker 1: Sing and America the Beautiful out of step with the

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Speaker 1: twenty one century this Land is Your Land. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: cut it either, Rosen says, because it insults indigenous Americans,

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Speaker 1: even though it was written by Woody Guthrie, a big

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Speaker 1: loony lefty imagine by John Lennon. That's another British song

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Speaker 1: with drippy utopianism. Plus Lennon was super rich. So nobody

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Speaker 1: buys his day dream of a world with no possessions

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Speaker 1: because he would never get rid of his is. Well,

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Speaker 1: then what's the perfect song that should replace the Star

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Speaker 1: Spangled Banner? Rosen proposes Lean On Me by Bill withers

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Speaker 1: its messages I'll take care of you, you take care

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Speaker 1: of me. Everybody knows it, and everybody can sing it.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of story we would laugh at twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago, but not anymore. This stuff can't be laughed off.

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Speaker 1: These people are dead serious, and don't rule out that

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Speaker 1: somebody of considerable weight is actually going to suggest this

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Speaker 1: someday down the road.