“By the dawn’s early light…”

That the U.S. initiated the war and fought with Canada, Spanish Florida and Great Britain over “theft” of runaway slaves?

“What so proudly we hailed…”

That the hero of the war, Andrew Jackson, was a violent racist who defeated the Creek with help of Cherokee, many of whom were land owning citizens, and once the war ended he betrayed them, stole their land and forced them all, women, children, elderly, on a forced starvation death march called the “trail of tears”?

“At the twilight’s last gleaming.”

That this evil man was elected US President in a landslide because the country approved his actions?

You are constantly demonizing Hawaiian protest. Why do these words and symbols mean more to you than 350 years of very REAL rapes, murders, lynchings, massacres, ethnic/racial cleansing, breaking treaties, stealing lands, racist laws and court opinions, denying or suppressing the right to vote, racist immigration and marriage laws, and on and on? Why Kenny?