Posted on 02/04/2025 12:15:56 PM PST by vespa300
NFL fans are calling for a Super Bowl boycott after it was revealed the 'black national anthem' will be performed ahead of this weekend's big game in New Orleans.
'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is traditionally sung during the pregame festivities at the NFL's end-of-season showpiece, but has sparked huge controversy in recent years.
The league has confirmed that Grammy Award-winning singer Ledisi will perform the song - in front of President Donald Trump - shortly before Jon Batiste's rendition of the national anthem on Sunday, leading to a huge fan backlash online.
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As long as it doesn’t substitute for the national anthem, I see nothing wrong with this song.
“Grammy Award-winning singer Ledisi”
Does she take her clothes off, too?
The NFL had a fatal concussion years ago—dead to me.
I’ve boycotted the NFL and SB since they became woke. Same with MLB
What, maybe three people complained, but I guess it’s enough to put out a story implying that Trump supporters are racists.
There’s no such thing as a black nation in the United States of America.
I’ve sinned the past couple of years, but I do boycott the halftime “show”, it disenfranchises me. Haven’t watched one since Tom Petty played.
>>’Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is traditionally sung during the pregame festivities at the NFL’s end-of-season showpiece
That’s a lie. NFL only started doing the Black Anthem in 2021. The authors are pretending like it’s a tradition going back decades.
Agreed. IMHO, ever time the political class brings up Lift Every Voice and Sing or anything else related to slavery or abolition, us Christians outta chest thump and tell everyone that the abolition movement was almost entirely a Christian movement. Also, the most organized movement against abolition was called the Democrat Party (at least in the decades between Andrew Jackson and the Civil War).
I will pass on watching the game.
Hopefully President Trump will pay zero attention to the Super Bowl or honor the winners with a visit to the White House. He has to avoid falling into the old norms, dating back for decades, of honoring the degenerate mainstream culture. The only mistake Trump has made was to fall into the trap of an interfaith service at the National Cathedral where he was trapped into listening to the harangue of an apostate Episcopal “bishop”.
Wasn’t going to watch anyway.
The Neeling Felons League lost me years ago.
If we are taking down non American flags, which I’m good with, then that song needs to be dropped. Play it in the locker room, toilets or at the concessions stands.
I haven’t watched since the 80’s when they that it was just peechy to have felons and thugs play the game
The National Anthem covers every one. Their song does not belong here. They are NOT a separate entity.
President Trump is scheduled to attend the Super Bowl.
I wasn’t going to watch because of the NFL’s constant ridiculous focus on Karen Swift, Travise Meathead and their Pixar-Romance.
This BLM stuff is just one more reason to avoid it.
>>>There’s no such thing as a black nation in the United States of America.>>>
Exactly. All of this crap has to vanquished and done away with completely never to be heard from again in any way, shape or form. Woke is like cancer....let it go and it spreads. You have to kill it and that’s what Trump is trying to do. Not even a trace should ever be tolerated again.
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