Thing is -- I don't know about the rest of you, but I never heard of that verse. Never learned it in school, never sang it, never heard it sung. I doubt it's ever used anymore -- probably because of the slave reference. So what's the problem?
Seems to me the mayor and the commiie anarchists who back him won't be satisfied until they completely destroy our traditions and symbols of freedom. They have already wiped out history in many public svhools, or altered it to fit their narrative. This generation coming up now has no idea of what this country is, the freedom it represents and the people who fought and died to preserve that freedom. They are being brainwashed into accepting a narrative that says all white people are evil racists and must atone for their sins and for the sins of their forefathers by destroying every last vestige of freedom and tradition.
I used to think parents should just take their kids out of public school and homeschooling them. But that's not enough. We must get rid of public school education altogether. It is nothing more than a factory producing robots which recite the same litany of hatred for al, that is good.
For many black people it appears that slavery is the only thing that matters as far as the history of the country. According to many of them, the simple fact of many of the Founding Fathers being slave owners means they must be excised from American history.
If you (as a white person) point out the FFs, even most of the slave holders, actions created the America we know today, the greatest country in the history of the world, they still get upset.
They then exclaim "well, you've never been a slave." Well then, neither have any of them. If you went far enough into the past many people had ancestors who might have been slaves. The Arabs took about million white slaves from Europe for hundreds of years only ending in maybe the 19th century.
In short, many black people can't get over slavery and still want to blame modern day white people, who weren't around at the time, for their problems.
I refuse to be part of their plan. At some point black people have to be told to join the rest of the country and get on with their lives. If Trump would do that, I'd have a lot more appreciation for him.
Until then, we have to suffer fools like the new mayor of St.Paul who wants to keep his own citizens mired in useless racial pity campaigns to no good purpose or end.