tucker: the california branch of the naacp is calling for the star-spangled banner to have its status as our national anthem revoked. the group recently approved a resolution calling the anthem one of the most racist proslavery, antiblack songs in the american lexicon. chase tickles as a lecturer in african-american studies at the university of maryland. maryland of course being where the poem was first written, and he joins us, thank you. i think everything about this is ludicrous. there are tons of problems in america, including the african-american community, this is like number 9,000 on the lis list, but just the specifics of it. this is the song that celebrates the participation of black soldiers. i don t really know it s right in there. i don t know how this is a racist anthem. i honestly don t know what they re talking about. first of all, we have to enter in a war that has been missing from our discourse for about at least the last year.