Posted on 07/05/2020 9:04:16 AM PDT by blueyon
"""“Black National Anthem” to be Sung at NFL Games This Year — Was Written by Black Republican Who Denounced Democrats for Lynching Blacks"""
James Weldon Johnson was an American civil rights activist, school principal and writer.
According to Grand Ole Partisan, in 1900, he wrote the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing to honor Republican activist Booker T. Washington when the civil rights leader visited his school.
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Ah. Okay. Suddenly I’m for it.
What “nation” does it represent?
Watch this from the Conservative Twins (Hodge Twins).
You will laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JGNChUVzk
“What ‘nation’ does it represent?”
It doesn’t represent any nation; it never did. It was written as a hymn back at the turn of the last century. Blacks co-opted it and made it political.
Will the NFL change their minds when they hear this?
Quite possibly.
“... is a good time for all people to learn ...”
You think the NFL, the people who can’t inform or be informed that the US Flag stands for the constitution which is against racism is going to inform people the truth of democrat involvement in the institution of slavery, perpetuation of racism and plantation mentality, system?
Are you kidding?
Dnish D’Souza’s Educational film depicting this has been banned. He was jailed for bogus charges
You think this isn’t divisive?
The NFL started this
Yes, and we should celebrate Juneteenth to commemorate the day Republicans freed the slaves from their Democrat slave masters.
Why not let owners then decide what gets played along with the national anthem?
I went to a rugby tournament overseas, where bag-pipers and drummers played “Amazing Grace” and the entire stadium sang along
It was glorious.
Hey NFL, how does a** taste when you kiss it?
Yes indeed - it was also written as a hymn.
Still the best thing in sports is Liverpool fans singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.
I thought blacks had their own nation.....African...right? If you want to see how blacks treated their own population watch the movie “Zulu Dawn”....
The NFL has descended into nothing more than a political tool. I grew up loving to watch my home team, but now I loathe the NFL to the degree that I no longer care about that tea or anything connected to the NFL.
They define the N in the NFL
I don't care if you hate the NFL - that's precisely the reaction the Left wants. The NFL represented racial harmony, Christian values, and supporting local economies for decades. Now they are using race to drive a wedge and destroy the sport. It's the old divide-and-conquer tactic, and sadly too many people are falling for it.
I don’t see how they can be fair if they don’t play the national anthem for all hyphenated Americans. The playing, and kneeling, can go on all day.
Booker T. Washington should be a required study in high school history, at least a week’s worth. Especially this:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
That might encourage young blacks to ignore the Sharpton/Jackson race baiters and listen to Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, Walter Williams, Allen West and Dr. Ben Carson.
The title of this song is actually from an old white hymn...
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