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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The NFL Superbowl headlined by countless shots of Taylor Swift, with an endless bunch of stupid commercials and a “rapper” half time extravaganza getting second billing and with some football game thrown in as the undercard.
I can boycott that.
No problem.
The stupid commercials and the half-time show always generate as much postgame buzz as the game.
I don’t want Trump to go.
OOPS, we need to correct the sentence...NFL fan is calling for...
Agreed. And I like some rap — but not Kendrick Lamar — and not for the Superbowl, which hasn’t had like I dunno, a universally beloved rock band or something in a very long time!
Tired of Taylor Swift’s grip on culture.
Not sure it’s good for Trump to attend…
The only game(s) I watch are the final ones just before the Superbowl — less commercial and over-wrought. And I am disappointed this year with the results from both. Did not want Eagles / Chiefs so…
BUT who am I to complain?! TRUMP WON!!!!!!!!
It’s been in Baptist hymnals forever, and is a nice song.
Just like so many other good things, the left takes something good and co-opts it for evil. I say that considering the current context, it needs to stay in church not in sports. It IS divisive.
Can’t wait to miss it.
“’Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is traditionally sung during the pregame festivities at the NFL’s end-of-season showpiece”
Yeah. For about three years. So “traditionally” might be a bit over the top.
I do. Blacks do not have a national anthem, and claiming so is racist and anti-American divisiveness.
Don’t they always at halftime?
I call it Negros, Felons, and Liberals.
It seems as though we made a lot of inroads in the last election to find where we have common ground with the black community. Let's keep that rolling. There's enough time in the pre-game show for two songs.
“Hopefully President Trump will pay zero attention to the Super Bowl “
I think I heard this morning that he’ll actually be attending. Maybe the first sitting President to do that...?
Go suckle some NFL ape.
“I see nothing wrong with this song.”
I bet you would if whites wanted a White National Anthem, maybe, say, ‘The Flag Raised High’?
I stopped caring about the national felon league after the incidents involving Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson.
The black national anthem irks me a lot, but not nearly as much as the end-zone woke comments (i.e. End Racism, etc.) and the political woke comments on the back of the helmets!
Bad news, not only from a security aspect but also from the potential of some left wing demonstration to embarrass the President. I hope Trump is bluffing.
It will be soon enough if you let it go. It’s what they’re angling for. There is only one national anthem and its colors are red, white and blue.
Same here.
We have a lot of Chinese football players?
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