If yall read the linked article, you'll see that they interviewed a music scholar who has expertise with the National Anthem and he says some pretty interesting stuff.
Notably, there are hundreds of different adaptations of the anthem (including one used as a campaign song for Lincoln), but at some point in history the Anthem became such a revered song that changing it is no longer permissible.
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Originally posted by Tropez
Some of them are being removed. Like Andrew Jackson, who was not only a slave owner, but took part in Native American displacement and genocide.
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He's not really being removed, though. He's just being put on the back of the bill. The new $20 will literally be an abolitionist (Tubman) on the face side, and a genocidal slaveowner (Jackson) on the back. I think it's a great allegory for America tbh—we'll tell you to your face that we're inclusive, but behind your back we're discriminatory.