High school students ban national anthem from pep rallies.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...what-heck.html

The Star Spangled Banner will no longer be played at rallies at California High School in San Ramon after student leaders determined the song is racially insensitive.
“It was brought to our attention that the national anthem’s third verse is outdated and racially offensive, wrote the president of the school’s Associated Study Body. “We had nothing but good intentions by removing the song so that we could be fully inclusive to our student body.”
For people who aren't in the United States, most people don't even know that there is a third verse of our national anthem. That's related to the fact that most people don't even know that there is a second verse of our national anthem. Only the first verse is ever sung as the national anthem. (There's also a fourth verse that, as you can probably guess, virtually no one knows about.)

Here's the verse in question:

And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It's referring to slaves who actually existed at the time. Not sure what's racist about that.