Ind. Girl's National Anthem Rendition Stirs Flap

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An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a "traditional way" after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.

Shai Warfield-Cross, 16, has performed the national anthem at sports events at Bloomington High School North over the last year without incident. But school officials said they received complaints about her performance during a game in Martinsville.

I'm glad someone is finally putting a stop to this trend of bastardizing the National Anthem. People think that they can **** all over it freely because it's their "artistic representation" of it. Sorry to tell you this, but it's the fucking NATIONAL ANTHEM, not some shitty pop song that you can improve by adding your personal touch to it. This is a song that represents a country as a whole, not some wanna-be "artist" who wants to make the song his.

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