The third verse of Lift Every Voice....
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.
Your prediction may not be to far in the future.
If my memory of history is not to far off ... this same thing happened in Germany back in the day.
What about the Hispanic National Anthem? And can I pledge to the Mexican flag?
and do not forget the Asian National Anthem! and the American Indian National Anthem! and the European National Anthem.
It would be nice if we just had one National Anthem for all groups of people, all colors, all nationalities! Wait..........
The principal looks like Van Jone’s evil twin.
Looks like West Virginia has some housecleaning to do, eh Manchin?
I was an extremely rebellious student back in the day. I can only imagine what would have happened if someone hand tried to force me to stand ... for anything. LOL!
Things have reached the point where its time to get in their faces and refuse to cooperate with this crap.
There isn’t anything specifically “black” in the song; on its face apart from tradition it’s just another patriotic number. They might as well stand for “God bless America.” (Well the God part is shied away from now.)
When I was in Jr High in 19...92, they had a presentation in the auditorium for black history month where they played this thing and I refused to stand for it. I just remember how put off I was by the whole thing it still disturbs me to this day.
I guess we will have to name our national American anthem to “The White national anthem.”
Next, you will be hearing the “Brown, Yellow, Red and Woman’s” national anthem.
Bump
The problem is, their ancestors were the ones who suffered many, many moons ago. These bastards have been riding the American taxpayer gravy train ever since. The only cotton they’ve ever picked was out of an aspirin bottle. (Stolen from Redd Foxx) It’s time for all of them to grow up, get over it, get a job and move on. Geeesh!
Exactly where is this “Black Nation”?
I for one, am SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED that the ACLU isn’t in this school suing because they sing a hymn with God’s name in it in a public school. Oh wait, the ACLU only sues when it is the Right wanting to display the Christian religion. This song is a Christian hymn, not a direct Black hymn.
Yeah, everybody IS somebody.
That would be Americans.
Apparently Clinton (no joke!) believes there are American Citizens and Special American Citizens.
The Special (black) American Citizens have their own Special (black) National Anthem.
How special!
Kim Bailey, whose son chose not to stand and was "sent to the office several times for his decision," the newspaper said, indicated her support for Giles' decision, noting, "I still think they need to stress the fact there is one national anthem."
Stress the fact... ummm, yeah.
Perhaps once a week for the entire school year there should be an assembly where "Mr Special "African-American (black) National Anthem" stands by himself on stage and leads the students in the REAL National Anthem, recites the Preamble to the Constitution and then the Pledge of Allegiance.
Then, just for Mr. Special "African-American (black) National Anthem," he should recite the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.
If Mr. Special "African-American National Anthem" does not wish to participate in the weekly Civics lesson, well he can just "move on" to unemployment.
(from related story)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/12/06/High-school-song-policy-gets-changed/UPI-67381354821623/?spt=mps&or=1
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Some technology adept student needs to hack the system so it blares out “Dixie” some morning. That’ll wake up the administrators.
After Hours--Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra (1940)
Read more about it here.
What about the Ukrainian National Anthem?
The students should stand for the anthem. And raise their right arms in a Roman salute (AKA Hitler salute) during the entire anthem.