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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I like the new version in the GEICO commercial.
China town my China town...
If you were to ask 10 random black folks on the street what the “black” national anthem was, you would get 9 blank stares, and 1 get away from me comment.
It mentions God so they can’t have that.
That’s Whoomp not Boom! :)
... Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast."
You’re right. I’m one of those culturally deprived.
Personally, I prefer America the Beautiful.
MayflowerMadam is correct. How can White gleam be allowed? Gives them something to complain about in 50 years I guess.
If anyone saw the national anthem before AFC Championship game, that performance would have been awful and disrespectful regardless of what song was played. Someone doing a Jimi Hendrix do-over. You had to be stoned out of your gourd to like Hendrix' version at Woodstock and it certainly doesn't need a cover.
Happy to enrich you. :)
Yes, replacing the Star Spangled Banner with the “black national anthem” will certainly unify the country.
But if someone knells while it is being played, will that be considered an “act of insurrection”? Or will knelling be the required pose?
Indiana could use "Indiana Wants Me."
We already have a national hymn: “God of our Fathers”
ajf can you source that please? I am looking at the Wikipedia article on it and don’t see a reference to it being the “National Hymn”.
My mistake. According to the article the tune is titled “National Hymn”. But it’s not an official designation.
...I think. :)
Vomitous
How about a Vietnam War battle hymn?
“Him, him, him.
Screw him.
Kill him.
Him.”
Or the theme from the movie “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.”
The song “Puberty Love” was sung by the then-teenaged Matt Cameron, who later became the drummer for Soundgarden and since 1998 has been the drummer for Pearl Jam.
Never enough until they have it all and destroy everything and we are just gone.
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