If you are going to compete as a USA athlete then you should have to respect all that goes with it. While you might argue that this does include free speech, I will argue that, within the contract, there might be appropriate limitations, expectations, and requirements. While competing as a USA athlete you should as written in the codes of conduct
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301
http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...e36-section301
If you choose not to do so, then compete under some other company's or country's name.
To say that the National Anthem is a racist based song is wrong. This might amount to data-drudging i.e. drudging the bottom to find any indication to support what you want to say vs. starting with a hypothesis and prospectively seeing if your hypothesis is supported. First, America the beautiful is a great song with fine lyrics....and God in every stanza. While I am not offended you know that some will be i.e. you aren't going to please everyone. As for your comment that the 'US National Anthem has always been tainted'......you might be ignoring history and using only data to prove your point as opposed to pointing out the limitations of your methods. The Star Spangled Banner was written in 1814 and the petition for it to be the National Anthem was signed in 1931 by Herbert Hoover. There are four stanzas in its original form. The first is said to ask the question of whether the flag was still raised. The second answers it: yes. The third berates the enemy who attacked and the fourth concludes in thanking the 'power that precerved a nation'. Fact is, the last two lines of the first stanza answers the important question as to whether or not th flag was still standing, meaning that the nation was still free from it British oppressors and that freedom was preserved. It took more than 100 years and 6 attempts to adopt it as the National Anthem. Why? Why is only the first stanza sung? Why not sing the third, which you and others seem to have 'data drudged' to try to prove a point. The third stanza can only prove what Key saw...that some or many slaves may have fought with Britain against the US... However, America did not adopt the SSB as the NA until more than 100 years later, after the civil war, and we only sing the first stanza. I grew up singing only one stanza, I bet you did, and I believe that at least 4-5+ generations have only been singing the first stanza....if I were to bet, I bet that more than 60% of Americans don't know that there are four stanzas and much less, any of the words in stanzas 2-4. To conclude in todays society, that grew up essentially with the first stanza of the star spangled banner as the national anthem as it is sung and known by 99% of Americans, that it is a racist song, based on one line in the third stanza, is, in fact, data drudging.
Just my opinion
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301
http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...e36-section301
If you choose not to do so, then compete under some other company's or country's name.
To say that the National Anthem is a racist based song is wrong. This might amount to data-drudging i.e. drudging the bottom to find any indication to support what you want to say vs. starting with a hypothesis and prospectively seeing if your hypothesis is supported. First, America the beautiful is a great song with fine lyrics....and God in every stanza. While I am not offended you know that some will be i.e. you aren't going to please everyone. As for your comment that the 'US National Anthem has always been tainted'......you might be ignoring history and using only data to prove your point as opposed to pointing out the limitations of your methods. The Star Spangled Banner was written in 1814 and the petition for it to be the National Anthem was signed in 1931 by Herbert Hoover. There are four stanzas in its original form. The first is said to ask the question of whether the flag was still raised. The second answers it: yes. The third berates the enemy who attacked and the fourth concludes in thanking the 'power that precerved a nation'. Fact is, the last two lines of the first stanza answers the important question as to whether or not th flag was still standing, meaning that the nation was still free from it British oppressors and that freedom was preserved. It took more than 100 years and 6 attempts to adopt it as the National Anthem. Why? Why is only the first stanza sung? Why not sing the third, which you and others seem to have 'data drudged' to try to prove a point. The third stanza can only prove what Key saw...that some or many slaves may have fought with Britain against the US... However, America did not adopt the SSB as the NA until more than 100 years later, after the civil war, and we only sing the first stanza. I grew up singing only one stanza, I bet you did, and I believe that at least 4-5+ generations have only been singing the first stanza....if I were to bet, I bet that more than 60% of Americans don't know that there are four stanzas and much less, any of the words in stanzas 2-4. To conclude in todays society, that grew up essentially with the first stanza of the star spangled banner as the national anthem as it is sung and known by 99% of Americans, that it is a racist song, based on one line in the third stanza, is, in fact, data drudging.
Just my opinion
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