Statue of Francis Scott Key in Baltimore "Vandalized": Wrote That 'Racist Anthem'

September 13, 2017 "Statue of Francis Scott Key  in Baltimore vandalized with graffiti."

Wednesday morning, Baltimore residents found the Francis Scott Key memorial at 1200 Eutaw Street spray pained in red and black from the sidewalk to the top of its columns.

Francis Scott Key was the lawyer, author and poet from Frederick Maryland who wrote the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry" which later became the National Anthem of the United States, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The vandalizing (I call it a hate crime) took place exactly 203 years after he wrote it.  The statue is located at 1200 N. Eutaw Street.

The words "Racist Anthem" were written on the monument.  The seldom sung third voice contains the words "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave."  This would refer to slaves who fought for Britain who gave them a promise of freedom.

Francis Scott Key owned slaves and opposed abolition.  He died in 1843, so was not a Confederate.

And some of you think these people will be satisfied when all Confederate symbols are gone.  That is JUST the BEGINNING!!

Silly People.  --Old Secesh