Posted on 02/14/2023 5:11:01 AM PST by Rummyfan
As I write this Super Bowl LVII is tied in the first quarter. I am not here to discuss the game. I am here to discuss the “Black National Anthem”. Or rather that we CAN only have one National Anthem and that ain’t it.
Don’t get me wrong “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a Beautiful piece of music. Our Nina wrote about the history of the song two years ago. The lyrics are beautiful...
It is a beautiful piece but it is NOT our National Anthem. Newsweek was distraught that Representative Lauren Boebert pointed this out:
Boebert became the latest prominent Republican to criticize the National Football League (NFL) over the song’s inclusion, which will be performed alongside the “Star-Spangled Banner” and “America the Beautiful.” The GOP lawmaker accused the league of attempting to “divide” Americans by including the Black National Anthem in the performance lineup.
“America only has ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM,” she tweeted. “Why is the NFL trying to divide us by playing multiple!? Do football, not wokeness.”
Critics argued, however, that Boebert’s tweet was more divisive than the inclusion of the performance. Condé Nast editor Luke Zaleski accused Boebert of “gaslighting” viewers.
(Excerpt) Read more at victorygirlsblog.com ...
Black racism is a problem the country has to deal with.
The whole culture is a manufactured fiction. My family is from Wales (one generation) and beyond Yorkshire pudding I have no connection to the culture; we are assimilated and totally, proudly, American.
I have been looking into this the past day or so...it appears they simply sung a few “songs of America”. I was glad to hear a song which is actually a hymn about reliance on God. Let the left think what they want but it was more of a Worship song to me...
WHERE IS THE YELLOW NATIONAL ANTHEM?
WHERE IS THE JEWISH NATIONAL ANTHEM?
HOW ABOUT THE LIKEWISE OPPRESSED AND MARGINALIZED LATINO NATIONAL ANTHEM?
(BTW, none of these should even have “national” in them - what sense does that even make?)
We got commercials instead.
Do not be fooled.
You’re right about the song itself.
However, the fact someone declared it the “black national(sic) anthem” and that it has to be used as an official public performance is a STICK IN THE EYE to America in general and conservatives and whites more specifically.
It is meant as an insult.
So then why are people making a big deal out of Kari Lake not standing up for it, if it was just a “song of America”?
You know, I’m beginning to think we’re over-reacting to this. It’s clear that black Americans are desperately struggling for some sort of identity. That’s why this song, that’s why Kwanzaa, that’s why Wakanda, that’s why the made-up names and the clannish, lockstep tribalism, the over-the-top versions of Christianity and Islam... they are really, really lost. Maybe we should just let them have their song. Hell, maybe we should let them have Georgia, and the panhandle of Florida, and say, “Here. Your own country. All yours. We’ll vacate, do some property swaps...” Man, I’d be willing. Their angst and endless rage is just exhausting. It’s like being married to Sybil.
It will never be enough, even reparations won't be enough.
When I heard that was coming I boycotted the game completely. I have now weened myself from all distracting fodder. All that shit is for is distract you from what’s really going on around you, and what’s going on around us isn’t good!
If they started destroying and burning police cars on the field, it would qualify ...
It wouldn't be Wakanda, but ... hey, they could name it Wa-kinda! LOL!
They will never leave those places, if you offered a “black homeland” they could move to, there would be few takers.
I don’t believe the author was a Christian but it was based off the book of Exodus in the Old Testament and is a hymn...
Lift Every Voice and Sing” – often attributed as the Black national anthem – is a hymn penned as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 and set to music composed by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905. This hymn praises thanksgiving for devotion and deliverance, with symbolism referring to the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom of the “promised land”. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is included in 39 various Christian hymnals and is used in churches throughout North America. Let us rejoice and praise the glory of God by lifting our voices to sing! This powerful hymn calls us to lift our voice and “Sing a song full of the faith.” May we continue to sing God’s praises through the “weary years” and the “silent tears.”
It’s not the “song of America”....The left just makes crap up. I usually lament and pray during hymns. I would not find it fitting to stand-—even though the author says to “Blacks”-—stand and sing.
More made up crap by the left to pick and choose who they want to destroy.
You’re missing the point.
They’re trying to “stick it to us” by insisting on it being played in public as a necessity.
You can talk about “Amazing Grace” being a universally loved hymn and how wonderful it is, but if it was being forced on our public stages as some kind of, I don’t know, “white” or “Scots” national anthem, we should all be totally against it.
There is no such thing as a ‘national’ anthem for a subgroup of people. Look at the meaning of the word national: “common to or characteristic of a whole nation”
I agree....but I believe the way it was presented was “America’s songs” medley. Do I like all this CRT divisive BS? NO! I literally fight it at our Schools, online, in work and with family....This is one of those “pick and chose” battles I will pass on.
The song is fine, but it’s no anthem, and shouldn’t be treated as such.
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