Posted on 07/01/2008 9:07:57 PM PDT by Jonah Johansen
As Denver dignitaries gathered today for Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.
But that's not what she did.
Instead, Marie performed the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which also is known as the "black national anthem."
When she finished, the proceedings moved forward, and the "Star-Spangled Banner" was never performed.
Words of gibberish. Just like Obama's excuse for not where a flag lapel pin.
Listening to Gunny Bob right now. Boy is he fired up. He said this woman has a website and she’s a militant.
From her website:
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“To Contact Rene Marie
email rene@renemarie.com
or
call 303.520.6705”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
She made it clear how she feels, she hates America.
I definitely didn't think that blacks were "getting over" it with how they vote en masse (90+ for the Dems), but I did think things were getting a little better--a slight glimmer of hope. But then I see many blacks give other blacks a pass when the crime is against a white. I see the anoited one go to a hateful, racist church for 20+ years and he gets a pass and goes on to become the nominee. I see some so called black Republicans say they are struggling on how to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. I now believe things are worse than I thought and I thought they were fairly bad to begin with.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The whole state of Colorado is going loopy. I’ve heard it’s all the lefties that have messed up California and are now moving here. They totally screw up once place and move on to the next.
We're not far away from having demands to take the dead White guys off the currency.
Yes, we’ve had had an influx of idiots, it’s a shame.
Here’s the Rocky Mountain News poll:
Was it appropriate to sing the Black National Anthem at the State of the City address today in Denver?
Response Percent Votes
yes 11% 41
no 87% 322
unsure 1% 5
Total 368
I’m surprised they haven’t made a resolution to have Obama on one—you know for all his important accomplishments.
But that's not what she did.
Instead, Marie performed the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which also is known as the "black national anthem."
When she finished, the proceedings moved forward, and the "Star-Spangled Banner" was never performed.
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Here is a link to see the video of Rene Marie singing at the State of the City:
http://cbs4denver.com/politics/Black.National.Anthem.2.761769.html
This latest racial episode as read here on FR has raised my blood temperature quite a few degrees. Instead of just adding a comment here, I did the following:
In an email (to about 35)
1)I cut and pasted the headline and date of the Denver
Post, with a short description of the event.
2)Post #7....The words to the song.
3)Post #18.....Link to the song on You Tube. (For strong
strong stomachs only)
4)Post #25....The excellent comments of Dr. Zoidberg.
One of the great things about YouTube is that you can get a variety of takes on many things. The link above is to an interview with Leontyne Price, the great black opera singer, and her rendition of the same song.
Besides the fact that she can sing rings around "RenaMarie" the interview, where she expresses a wholly non-racialist account of singing prowess, her rendition and the lyrics superimposed on the flag, clearly show a commitment to God and to the US as "our native land."
This note on the author pretty clearly shows that HE was making a patriotic, not a black-nationalistic, statement:
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In 1900, he wrote the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" on the occasion of Lincoln's birthday; the song which became immensely popular in the black community and became known as the "Negro National Anthem."
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That said, the mayor and the singer are clearly doofuses, at a minimum. It's a fine song, with its own fine tune, but it's not the national anthem of the US (and it doesn't sing well to that tune anyway).
As another poster noted, it could have been a fine intro to the SSB.
Real life approaches satire.
From the 27 Oct 2007 weekly satire column “Semi-News”....
Obama Explains National Anthem Stance
Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171, During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides,” Obama said. “There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.’ If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens118.htm
Real life approaches satire.
From the 27 Oct 2007 weekly satire column “Semi-News”....
Obama Explains National Anthem Stance
Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171, During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides,” Obama said. “There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.’ If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens118.htm
These notes on Johnson's life show why (also, he was the first black admitted to the bar in Florida, post-reconstruction):
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During this time Johnson also studied creative writing at Columbia University and became active in Republican party politics, serving as treasurer of New York's Colored Republican Club in 1904. When the national black civil rights leadership split into conservative and radical factions — headed by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, respectively — Johnson backed Washington, who in turn played an important role in getting the Roosevelt Administration to appoint Johnson as United States consul in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in 1906.
In 1909 Johnson was promoted to the consular post in Corinto, Nicaragua, a position that proved considerably more demanding than his Venezuelan job and left him little time for writing. In 1910 he took a leave from his duties in order to marry Grace Nail, the daughter of a prosperous New York tavern owner and real estate dealer. His three-year term of service in Nicaragua occurred during a period of intense political turmoil, which culminated in the landing of U.S. troops at Corinto in 1912. In 1913, after returning home from Nicaragua to settle his father's estate, Johnson attempted to secure a more desirable consular position.
Failing that, and seeing little future for himself under President Woodrow Wilson's Democratic administration, Johnson resigned from the foreign service and returned to New York to become an editorial writer for the New York Age, the city's oldest and most distinguished black newspaper. The articles Johnson produced over the next ten years tended to be conservative, combining a strong sense of racial pride with a deep-rooted belief that blacks could individually improve their lot by means of self-education and hard work even before discriminatory barriers had been removed.
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