National Anthems

 

This Land is Your land

This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters|
This land was made for you and me.

My country right or wrong?

The anthem, This Land Is Your Land, of love for  the United States of America was written by Woody Guthrie in response to the adoption of God Bless America by Christian Nationalists.  Christian Nationalists should also be aware that God Bless America was written by a  Jew, Irving Berlin, who was born Israel Isidore Beilin. ( the fact that he also wrote White Christmas, where White referred only to snow, and Easter Parade might also surprise those same Christian Nationalists)

Rather than dueling anthems, each  thinking that they alone are correct, as the Buffalo Springfield sung “Nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.”  A better statement is that "My Country, Right or Wrong" is correct, but this is statement alone is incomplete.  The correct full statement should be “My Country Right or Wrong.  If it’s Right, KEEP it Right, but if it’s Wrong, MAKE it Right.  That is real love of country that both sides should find correct.