Posted on 01/27/2021 6:16:53 AM PST by Artemis Webb
Congressman Clyburn says if passed, the national hymn would have a special place alongside the existing US anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
United States congressman James Clyburn has filed a bill to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ the country’s new national hymn in a move the Democrat says, “would be an act of bringing the country together”.
‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’, popularly known as the Black national anthem, has had a place of honour in the Black musical canon for more than a century.
Clyburn, the House majority whip, put forward the proposal on 13 January, calling for the song to be given a special place as a “national hymn” alongside official US anthem ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
Clyburn believes it would help unite the country in a time of reckoning with its long history of racial turmoil.
“To make it a national hymn, I think, would be an act of bringing the country together,” Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black American in Congress, told USA Today. “It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn’.”
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Stuffing the administration with blacks and a black hymn should just do wonders for unifying us all. Just wonderful. Bring on the collard greens!
I want the Barney “I Love You” song or the Mister Rogers “It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood” song.
“It’s Howdy Doody Time?”
You don’t have a problem with creeping incrementalism?
This “hymn” is already being played at some professional sports games with the National Anthem. It’s only a matter of time until the Anthem is deemed “too racist” to continue.
Can this guy just die?
>>the country’s new national hymn
hymn /him/
noun
a religious song or poem of praise to God or a god.
“a Hellenistic hymn to Apollo”
verb
1. praise or celebrate (something).
“Johnson’s reply hymns education”
2. RARE sing hymns.
“they were hymning to their god”
It’s over anyway. That this abomination was allowed to get this far, for years, with only occasional nominal push back reveals how dead we are already.
We are not witnessing a treat to the health of an organism. We are witnessing the maggot-infested rot of the carcass.
why should the U.S. have a national hymn? Wouldn’t that violate the First Amendment?
Isn’t Amazing Grace a better national hymn?
it was set to music here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace
No. We have a National anthem. We don’t need a special “black” national anthem. Frankly, we don’t need a “black” anything. Heaven knows anything designated “white” would never be tolerated by the woke.
Atheists won’t like it.
What a joke!!!!!
No, and if I was unclear
NO NO NO NO
Go nationally woke and they will go nationally broke.
We have two generations that still will sing OUR Anthem, and each generation shall become stronger in knowing its meaning, we are not dead yet and we shall make sure that the futue knows the sacrifices it took to hold OUR anthem for ALL americans as the One song of the Country, not one song for each pretend genetic original location population named as “something American.”
What IS the national rock song?
Ohio’s official rock song is Hang On Sloopy
https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Ohio%27s_State_Rock_Song_-_Hang_On_Sloopy
>>“We Shall Overcome” goes well too.
Did anyone EVER overcome? Because to hear the Left tell it, no one ever has. The struggle goes on.
John Cage’s 4’33” is the new national hymn.
Even the ACLU can get behind that one. A 4 minute 33 second moment of silence.
He is one nasty piece of Congress..my opinion...and I'll stick with it...
Might as well use Radiohead’s “The National Anthem”
Idiots gone wild.
Highway to Hell.
Clyburn is an embarrassment to South Carolina
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