Fifth Grader Kneels in Protest of Pledge of Allegiance
By Katherine Rodriguez Breitbart News September 15, 2016
A Texas fifth grader has decided to kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance at her middle school in protest of the national anthem.
Skyla Madria, 10, said to KVUE that she is protesting “The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key because he was a slave owner, and one of the verses in the song that people do not sing refers to slavery.
The verse reads, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.”
“When I heard the third verse of the national anthem, I decided that’s not right and he shouldn’t have wrote that,” Madria said to KVUE.
Madria got her inspiration from football player Colin Kaepernick, who recently kneeled during the national anthem in protest.
