Congress Bears Responsibility to Remove Words from National Anthem

    If "The Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted by Congress as the national anthem of the United States, shouldn't Congress be weighed with the responsibility of making changes now that verse three has come under attack as being racist? 

   "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or gloom of the grave." So it says in that third verse.

    Do we take that verse out? Remove just those lines? Replace them? If we judge the words to be racist, we bear the responsibility of changing them. Congress approved "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem 90 years ago, with President Herbert Hoover signing the bill March 4, 1931.

   Whether Congress takes official action to change the National Anthem might seem a small matter to many. One wonders if the thought is even crossing many minds, as it is not as if we are seeing the suggestion even being raised. 

   It should be. If that is a racist comment in the National Anthem, it should be removed.