[aruanan]

So, what did you learn in school today? (reinforcing the ghetto mentality)

Well, my kids in a nearly all black school in Chicago were taught by a white Jewish music teacher to sing what she called "the black national anthem". I explained to them how and why it was a racist concept.

[AnAmericanMother]

What a coincidence! I just mentioned that hymn on the Fred Thompson religious-test thread (just making a funny - apparently the Church of Christ has a "national anthem" too and some Jimmy Carter Dem operative was demanding that Thompson prove he had ever sung it . . .)

It's not a bad hymn if you like that sort of trumpety Gospel marching song, but it's been overused.

[Clock King]

I explained to them how and why it was a racist concept.

Because it came about during a very racist time in the US.