Girl's National Anthem Rendition draws complaints

A sixteen year old girl in Indiana was asked to sing the star-spangled banner in a "traditional way" but ended up changing the way she sang it and got many complaints. I can understand if the school district may be upset if she was directly told to sing it traditionally but to bring the press into this is just too much. I have seen many people change it all the time and it's never caused any problems then.I think the complaints were most likely racially motivated since it is a small town in Indiana. Either way, to make a big deal out of this is really unnecessary.


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