Posted on 07/15/2021 5:22:35 PM PDT by bitt
The National Football League (NFL) will be playing the “Black National Anthem” as “a prominent part of all big league events,” including the Super Bowl, NFL Playoffs, NFL Draft, and NFL Kickoff game, according to a new report.
The NFL also played the anthem, “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” during the first week of the 2020 season.
The Daily Wire notes that the NFL already featured Alicia Keys and the Cleveland All-City Choir singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Super Bowl LV and even before the 2021 NFL Draft.
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Front Office Sports reports that the NFL “will introduce more social justice messaging on fields and player helmets during the upcoming 2021 season, following up on initial efforts from 2020.”
“To reinforce its 10-year, $250 million commitment to combat systemic racism, the league will promote social justice via on-field signage, decals on player helmets, and in-stadium PSAs,” the FOS report explains. “The NFL also plans to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ — often referred to as the Black national anthem — a prominent part of all big league events, said sources. They will likely highlight victims of racial injustice with a ‘Say Their Stories’ project, as well.”
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I don’t equate it with the national anthem.
And I’ve never sung it. But I see no reason to get bent out of shape if it is sung before games and in fact I find it ironic corporate libs want it sung since it’s a religious song.
If you don’t equate it why would you want it sung along side the national anthem? Please remove me from your NFL and UFC mailing lists. We are no longer on the same page.
Do you find it offensive because they want to do it right after the national anthem? Would it be ok if it was sung at half time like "take me out to the ball game" is during the 7th inning stretch?
:: Just the gamblers. ::
And THAT is why the NFL will stay afloat for years to come.
They don’t need advertisers.
Nor do they need tickets and attendance.
The book will pay for it all WITH profit left over.
:: who will be the first anti-wokester to kneel for the Negro national anthem? ::
We will never know.
Quiet discipline will be used; placed on waivers.
The media won’t even cover it.
I actually like the lyrics better than the battle narrative...
There is a mention God in the song... When I was a kid in the mid-70’s I thought “God Bless America” or “America the Beautiful” would make a better national anthem than a Baltimore drinking song about Fort McHenry getting shelled...
If it does become our new National Anthem, as I do think it is inevitable it will, they will change the lyrics.
I note also, that ironically the Russian National Anthem, although musically is the same as the Soviet Anthem, now has the word “God” in the lyrics.
Gator, I gotta confess that my thinking has been shifting a lot lately. I have a 6 in my birthday future next year. The full awareness that I will be fortunate to get 25 more years has led to more of a “well, maybe I won’t be around to see it and my kids are ok with it, so I don’t really GAF about this...”
This is really in that category... I watch RZC most Sundays and haven’t really paid attention to the pregame BS for years. Too busy with my fantasy teams... lol.
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