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Posted on 07/02/2008 7:51:26 PM PDT by tobyhill
A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem with those of the "Black National Anthem" during the annual State of the City address this week.
Rene Marie was asked to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — a hymn commonly referred to as the "Black National Anthem" — to the tune of the national anthem, MyFOXColorado.com reported.
"If anyone has got a right to be angry it's probably me," Hickenlooper told the station. "I guess what I feel most is just deeply disappointed."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
If we allow the America-hater Obama to get voted in, this kinda stuff will be going on all over.
BARACK OBAMA - FREE INTERNET VIDEO
Obama’s Pastor Celebrates 9/11 (explicit)
Only 5 Days After 3,000 Americans Killed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco
Jeremiah Wright Says America Deserved 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8
Obama: Bitter Americans Cling to Guns and Religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJAl8a3d9Q
Meet Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOYL2ZG7fk
Gaza Strip Palestinians Campaigning for Obama
http://youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
Obama’s Racially-Divisive Pastor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA
Obama Disrespecting U.S. Flag and Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo
Summing up Barack Obama
http://www.primetimepolitics.com/primetime/site/video/summing_up_obama/
The Audacity of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs
The Audacity of Barack Obama 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k
Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Wright & Senator Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4
Obama’s Pastor - 9/11 Fault of Israel Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s
Obama - Cult of Personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk
Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o
Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0
Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU
The Two Things Senator Obama Accomplished
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/27/obamas-empty-change-message/
The Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg
Barack Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters ‘Punished’ With a Baby
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg
Guess she got her holidays mixed up
You get what you pay for Mr. Mayor. Eat it and stop yer whining.
She probably figures the next President will share her views. May even be auditioning to sing the "anthem" at B-HO's inauguration.
“I guess what I feel most is just deeply disappointed.”
I’m deeply disappointed that nobody had the stones to stop her.
What a nation of sissy-boy pussies we have become.
He would have to throw her under the bus first.
One guarantee, here.
This broad will NEVER sing the National Anthem at any NASCAR event! Ever!
Did she get booed away from the mic or were jaws just hitting the floor.
I really think NASCAR should extend her an invitation. ;>)
They were just standing there with their hands over the heart. Some council members said they thought it was a prelude to the Anthem.
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What's going to happen, when people come to this conclusion?
LOL.
(hi ya)
I saw her on TV saying she wanted to make a statement or something like that. This is so insulting!!!
Well, if you are invited to sing the national anthem, that’s what you should sing. But “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a fine song. Part of the lyrics:
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land.
I don't see a mad rush back to mother Africa. Anyone want to move to Zimbabwe and sing Mugabe's natonal anthem? It ain't perfect here in the USA but blacks have it a whole lot better than 3rd world rat holes.
Hunny - she would not survive - trust me. I know the NASCAR fans, the drivers, the pit crew, the reporting cast - this racist would not make it through five seconds of that *&$# with NASCAR people.
Hey, gurl fren!!! Good ta see ya!
What a rude and disrespectful thing to do.
Let’s all be honest with ourselves: nothing will happen to the black nationalist singer, nor the Denver mayor, nor anyone connected with the incident. The Sheep don’t care.
Why didn’t the Mayor order someone to unplug the microphone?
That’s the point. Maybe while she’s at the track she can complain about the Environmental Damage being done by the cars. I bet they would embrace her,,,,in a choke hold.
The U.S. National Anthem is a tribute for ALL Americans: Citizens of any race, creed or color. The black nat’l scream is racist and only serves the black racist movement. F’em!
Damn, I am getting sick and F’in tired of these SOBs.
They can kiss my rosy red, Irish arse!
rant/
This is what I was going to say. “Lift Every Voice” is a perfectly nice hymn about putting faith in God, not some unpatriotic anti-white rap song or anything like that. She shouldn’t change what song she was going to sing without telling anyone, but this wasn’t a disrespectful song to pick. If I heard that song at a government event it would be A-OK with me. In fact it probably made the liberals mad to have to hear a religious song like that!
This is an article from the Denver Post newspaper, July 01, 2008.
“As Denver dignitaries gathered today for Mayor John Hickenlooper’s State of the City address, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.
But that’s not what she did.
Instead, Marie performed the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which also is known as the “black national anthem.”
When she finished, the proceedings moved forward, and the “Star-Spangled Banner” was never performed.”
Here is the song:
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD,
True to our native land James Weldon Johnson June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938
Here is the link to the song...
Black National Anthem
I found this on FR today and it raised the temperature of my blood quite a bit. Yaeko said it made her feel sick. JB
“You know, I thought for a while that we were getting over our racial issues as a nation.”
Then, this comment from a regular participant at Free Republic:
“As long as whites exist, there will be racism. Not because whites are pining for the good old days of Jim Crow, no, but for the simple reason we are the excuse many need for failure.
Decades of failure to embrace the chances their parents and grandparents won for them with blood and sweat, decades of blaming whitey when they refused to accept that they have a place beside every other man and woman who chooses to stand on their own two feet.
Whites are scapegoats for nearly every social and economic ill. It’s easier than taking a look in the mirror and accepting responsibility for your own shortcomings than doing something about it. “
Mr. “Loopy” has no right to be mad at this. He chose her to sing.
It’s the rest of us who have the right to be mad.
Stupid politicians!
Mr. “Loopy” has no right to be mad at this. He chose her to sing.
It’s the rest of us who have the right to be mad.
Stupid politicians!
Being the hard core anal vet that I am I would have stood front and tall and sung the real words. Then I would have walked out the door while giving the bitch the one finger salute.
What an insult to our country. If she wants to play that kind of game then anything I want to say to her or about her is fair game!!!!! After all, I’m an artist too!!!!!!
The first thing I would like to ask the black racist bitch is what has she ever done to secure the freedom and liberty of our country and our people? Words don’t get it. Talk is not just cheap, it’s worthless. What have her actions been? That is where you can find the truth about her.
Her actions are insulting!!!!!
There's that word bitter again.
It ain’t perfect here in the USA but blacks have it a whole lot better than 3rd world rat holes.
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I think there is a whole bunch of blacks out there who don’t think so.
I will join with blacks to push the DNC to have the Black National Anthem sung to open the Democrat Convention in August.
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Entirely appropriate. It would be fun watching the pundits of the media try to justify it or try to distance it from Obama.
It sounds ok but it is called the BLACK national anthem. God knows this country does NOT need anything else to divide us.
I just hope the undecided voter wakes up to what Nobama is about and secondly gets over their Bush derangement syndrome.
Sounds nice, but what country is the "native land"? I hope it's the USA.
"Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."
Bill Cosby on African Americans
Rene Marie was asked to sing the "Star Spangled Banner". It was her choice to sing racist words - and while I'm at it - what woman shaves her head, leaving only 'bangs'? Just wondering......
The main problem of the black community for the black community is that they see there race before they see the opportunity America provides their members. Because of the race baiting left, they have no faith in that opportunity. Every other problem, up to and including the semi-genocide of black-on-black crime, follows. The “Black National Anthem” is just a symptom of this phenomenon, which the left has actively encouraged to secure political power.
You can thank the anti-male radical feminization of America by the NEA, hollywood, and other libs over the last 30 years for that. But I’m sure you knew that. /no sarc, not even a little
This is good stuff. Every time the Obamanation supporters play their race cards they change the hearts of more voters.
How about a request that Ms. Marie sing a third version named "The White National Anthem," to Obama in Denver?
Never saw it
pigment over principle
I must say, though, my college alma mater regularly celebrates those who "work tirelessly" with Planned Parenthood, and so far, I've only seen white ladies working hard to get black babies aborted. Or, should I say, white, leftist ladies?
Where's Obamanation's speeches, his tiresome, vacuous reading of the teleprompter, decrying this genocide?
I forget, he wants those black babies to have every chance possible of being aborted.
God, help us.
No, just another entertainer for Obama, no matter what the holiday is, or the song was supposed to be.
I wonder if she’ll sing “Swanee River”?
I think thats true for all of us.
Most people around the world get a taste of America and want to persue coming here even the educated/professionals.
Those that detest our Country are working like the devil to destroy it. Control Freaks.
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