Pledge Your Allegiance To The Diplomats The national anthem is under fire since it was discovered the third verse is a celebration of slavery. Given America’s tenuous relationship with slavery and the current happenings with Colin Kaepernick’s protest, someone came up with a possible solution to this problem. Dero Anthony, he of @DesusAndMero fame, started a petition to change the current national anthem to The Diplomats’ “Dipset Anthem.” Via XXL Ironically enough, the idea of America being the “land of the free” could one day lead to the song those words inhabit no longer being the National Anthem. Recently, a man named Dero Anthony used his freedom of speech to try and do just that. On Friday, Anthony started an online petition to have the Dipset’s eponymous track “Dipset Anthem” replace Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” as the national anthem. “The current National Anthem is BS,” reads Anthony’s very straightforward description for his petition. The petition already has over 1700 signatures. With Anthony’s petition gaining a bit of momentum, we have to wonder how Colin Kaepernick would feel about signing it. After all, it was probably his decision to reject the National Anthem at NFL preseason games that inspired Anthony to create the petition in the first place. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said, explaining the motivation behind his controversial protest. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” If you’d like to see the U.S. adopt “Dipset Anthem” as its National Anthem, you can sign the petition here . If the change is made, will you pledge allegiance to the Dips?
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Colin Kaepernick Won’t Support The National Anthem But Would He Stand For The ‘Dipset Anthem?’
