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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Have you read the other verses? It gets worse

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wow, it’s genuinely awful. Never read the entire original poem, but that’s disgusting, Key should have quit while he was ahead with the first verse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looking it up- holy shit, you're right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn't particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards