Given the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, the conviction and 20-year sentence of Marissa Alexander, the passage of a restrictive omnibus abortion bill by the Texas legislature, the striking down of Voting Rights Act Section 4 by SCOTUS, and numerous other judicial and legislative decisions that continue to set back years of racial and gender-related progress made in this Country, as well as national attitudes that continue to expose our racist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic nature, I hereby petition the White House to change the United States of America's National Anthem from Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner" to the ubiquitous 1985 Huey Lewis and the News hit, "Back in Time" (featured prominently in the 1985 blockbuster, "Back to the Future").



