American Flag Quotes
Ironically, the fascist organizations that did form in America did just that. The American Firsters claimed patriotism motivated them to support Hitler and Father Coughlin and his fascist movement was his own version of Christianity—one which the Roman Catholic Church was so opposed to that they prohibited him from appearing on the radio with his virulent preaching. He was one of several who “hijacked” American Christianity not unlike the way radical Muslims would later in the century hijack Islam.
The 3rd verse is rarely sung because of its reference to the then existing and generally accepted system of indentured servitude and slavery.
His ancestors had come to New Orleans from Haiti around 1800 before the United States made the Louisiana Purchase.
