Posted on 01/31/2024 5:59:08 AM PST by MtnClimber
The NFL has announced that for the fourth year in a row, the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed at the Super Bowl.
It appears we’ve come full circle since the 2004 Democratic National Convention when then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said: “Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us … there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. … We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”
It appears we’ve come full circle since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, talked about the day when people are evaluated based on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. King said: “I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama, little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. … With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.”
The national anthem is also the black/white/Asian/Hispanic national anthem. It is the national anthem of every citizen.
The country, including the sports world, has come a long way. There was a time when black quarterbacks were a rarity. White coaches and owners assumed blacks lacked the intelligence, leadership ability, and fan base appeal to lead teams as quarterbacks. Black would-be coaches faced the same bigotry and discrimination. Today, the league and the public would not tolerate anti-black racism, and many a career — whether player, coach, or broadcaster — has been damaged, if not ended, over racist comments or comments perceived as racist. This is not your grandfather’s America.
America’s three largest cities — New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — have black mayors even though none of the cities has a majority black population. Los Angeles elected its first black mayor in 1973, a man who went on to be elected three more times. Blacks have become American Medical Association and the American Bar Association presidents. This is just a sampling. At least four black American athletes have become billionaires: Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and LeBron James, with more in the pipeline. Blacks have overcome. Where’s the NFL on the real problems facing the “black community” — poor urban schools and fatherlessness? No, it’s all about characterizing blacks as victims and rooting out “systemic racism.”
When New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft introduced his freshly hired coach to the media, Kraft said: “I want to get the best people I can get. I chose the best head coach for this organization. He happens to be a man of color. But I chose him because I believe he’s best to do the job.”
But his new coach, Jerod Mayo, said: “You want your locker room to be pretty diverse, and you want the world to look like that. What I will say, though, is I do see color because I believe if you don’t see color, you can’t see racism. … It goes back to whatever it is, Black, white, yellow, it really doesn’t matter, but it does matter so we can try to fix the problem that we all know we have.”
The problem we all know we have?
As for the black national anthem to be sung at the Super Bowl, what’s next? How about playing the University of Michigan fight song? What happens if at least some players reject the narrative that blacks remain victims and consider the singing of the black national anthem at the Super Bowl divisive?
The first white or black player who takes a knee at the Super Bowl during the “black national anthem” will immediately have the league’s bestselling jersey. As Nike says, “Just do it!”
We stopped watching the NFL years ago.
De Camptown ladies sing this song
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
De Camptown racetrack’s five miles long
Oh! doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
I come down there with my hat caved in
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I go back home with a pocket full of tin
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
The long tail filly and the big black hoss
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
They fly the track and they both cut across
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
The blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Can’t touch bottom with a ten foot pole
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
Old muley cow come on to the track
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
The bob-tail fling her over his back
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
Then fly along like a rail-road car
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Runnin’ a race with a shootin’ star
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
See them flyin’ on a ten mile heat
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
Round the race track, then repeat
Oh! doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
I win my money on the bob-tail nag
Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I keep my money in an old tow-bag
Oh! de doo-dah day!
Goin’ to run all night
Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
What happens if white people turn off their tv?
What..no transexual cheerleaders?
Truth is that song is hymn.They want a hymn before the game it’s okay with me but I would rather it be Amazing Grace, although I doubt many in the audience would understand the significance of that particular hymn.
that’s a good one
The announcers will ignore the event, google will disappear it, and the broadcasting network will have technical difficulties and that tape will be gone.
The cameras will "suddenly" be pointed elsewhere.
Regards,
The people still supporting these GD Communist 100% suck!
Okay, then: How about spitting? Or maybe vociferously farting when the Negro anthem plays?
Any chance of that being misunderstood as a gesture of submission?
Regards,
So when do we get back to the % black thing? You know he’s only 10% black, or he’s a good 80 %black?
Thats the racist thing, and looks like society is hell bent to go right back to the democRATS Jim Crow times. Hell they even promote separate but equal. Now thats a throwback to racist times, again democRAT controlled times.
Any whites that show up will sing along and get $hit on for doing so ,LOL
black national anthem?
i missed that congressional vote
Lift your knee UP
Black National Anthem? Where’s that from Ethiopia? I think I’ll take a knee.
I havent watched the super bowl for 30 years... no interest at all. Infact I stopped paying attention to all major sports when ticket prices hit $50...
And the boycott is strong with me. and black guy white girl edvertising of TV program gets no attention from me what so ever. as well, any place of business that displays a rainbow flag gets no patronage at all... fk em all!!
Not too many people have heard the last stanza. Love or hate Bill Clinton but he knew every stanza by heart.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our God,
True to our native land.
But if they do sing along, they will be guilty of Cultural Appropriation!
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