Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jun 15, 2021 16:07:35 GMT -8
The idea that free men implies anything about race, though, is simply preposterous. That is like saying New Hampshire's "Live free or die" is somehow racist. It's not.
If there were something concrete in the specific history of the poem, which forms the basis of the song, then I can see the need for change. To try and inject a meaning that a learned individual would never arrive at is just silly.