Posted on 07/02/2020 6:01:06 PM PDT by AAABEST
The NFL will reportedly play “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” which is also known as the black national anthem, before every Week 1 NFL game in the 2020 season, according to ESPN.
The decision to play the song comes following the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, which led to nationwide protests over racial inequality and police brutality.
According to the ESPN report, the song will be played before “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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I was done with it after what the Ravens did in London a few years ago.
I like the Burger King Sponge Bob version of it.
“I checked the lyrics...”
I see the lyrics mention Goodell several times, although abbreviated as ‘God’.
Yup! Until the NFL stops catering to racists and disavows association with the ultra-racist BLM I’m done with it!
“I didn’t know there was a “black” national anthem.”
There isn’t. The ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ didn’t become the U.S. national anthem until March 3, 1931. On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed the bill designating “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the official national anthem of the United States. No such bill of any other anthem for the US has been recognized or signed into being. They can play what ever it is all they want unless the facility they are using says no. That is private property. But as a retail product, they will also have to reap the backlash of public opinion even for only 2 games.
This is what can happen, and I hope it does:
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article211991974.html
rwood
Why attend? My guess is they will play without a crowd or pipe crowd noise in from the internetz. Don’t attend.
Jay-Z pretty much runs the NFL now, anyway. Goodell should just step aside and make it official.
If I were not already boycotting, this would cause me to.
87% majority? Sounds like the country I was born in, not the one we live in today.
‘What black nation is this the anthem of?’
“Wakanda. Report to your re-education center.”
The left has destroyed everything...sports,movies,comedy, music,tv,news,.education at all levels..
now the whole country...Cuba in twenty years unless people wake up...
I wasn’t going to be watching anyway.
I admit I never heard of a black national anthem. I do know the American national anthem.
It appears to me if this is a true story and not the Onion, Roger Goodell and the NFL owners want to separate all of us into black or white tribes. This is the seperatism preached by Louis Farrakkan and Malcolm X. Following this train of thought to a logical conclusion it seems the current NFL owners will soon be replaced by black owners. Perhaps it will be part of the white owners reparations to the new black owners. Football stadiums will be filled with blacks only.
Is this really an appealing proposition?
I won’t be hearing it.
There is no nation of blacks much less an anthem.
No one’s watching anyway because teams are declaring they will not have fans in the stadiums
The lyrics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing#Lyrics
Not bad, but we already have a national anthem for all. Our nation is based on equality, not the generalizing “equity” (linguistic tool of fascism).
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