Source: NFL plans to play Black national anthem before Week 1 games

ESPN ^ | July 2, 2020 | Jason Reid

[ConservativeStatement]

"Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing," commonly known as the Black national anthem, is expected to be performed live or played before every Week 1 NFL game, and the NFL is also considering a variety of other measures to recognize victims of police brutality during the upcoming season, a source familiar with the league's discussions told The Undefeated on Thursday.

[CodeToad]

NFL: Negros, Felons, and Liberals.

[TalBlack]

If I were at the game I’d be DAMNED before I’d stand for this asinine thing.

[petitfour]

What kind of divided nonsense is this?

I am done with football.

[Texas resident]

I just heard on the radio that there is now a black news network on I Heart radio. News in the black perspective.

And they gripe about segregation.

[M Kehoe]

M Kehoe plans not to watch.

5.56mm

[Psalm 73]

"NFL plans to play Black national anthem before Week 1 games"

I love the theme from Shaft!

[longtermmemmory]

next thing you know, these exemplary students of history will demand a separate league. (because of unity etc.)

[BatGuano]

(no more tax breaks. No more subsidies for anti-americans)

I would like to add, “BUILD YOUR OWN DAMN PLACE OF BUSINESS!”

[Texas resident]

It’s no longer football.

[yesthatjallen]

I wish that were true.

I know a guy who's well aware of what's going on in major league sports and he rants and raves all the time but in the next breath he talks about his teams and the excitement of going to games.

Fan is short for fanatic and sports fanatics can't be reasoned with.

Owners know they can make concessions and most fan(atic)s will say, 'Thank you sir, may I have another'.

[Lysandru]

I confess to a certain morbid curiosity on how ESPN punks could manage to ruin the viewing experience in watching a foreign sports league.

[kenmcg]

I am fed up with the NFL, Nascar and the rest of the scum that want to tear down our heritage. Boycott!

[Avalon Memories]

So the blacks have their own “national anthem” along with insisting on many forms of de facto segregation. Why then don’t they all move en masse to Africa where they would presumably feel more at home? By the way, I refuse to capitalize the first letter of black like so many writers are doing now simply because the NYT decided that’s the latest way to appease blacks.

[Dacula]

They are called negro nursery rhymes.

“”””What exactly is a black national anthem..do they rap it?””

I think it is in ebonics, yo.

[kenmcg]

...and we should stop the flyover of the military before games F’ em.

[TexasM1A]

They should play “F@%k da Police”, that all that seems to matter to these people.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I confess to a certain morbid curiosity on how ESPN punks could manage to ruin the viewing experience in watching a foreign sports league.

By talking constantly about BLM and wokeness and bringing guests in to discuss social justice. All while covering a game in one of the least diverse countries in the world.

[map]

It sure does, but no NFL anymore for me. It’s over.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What if fans don’t stand? Better yet, what if fans don’t show up?

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Only the black nationalists/supremicists will stand. The people who won't stand for the Black Nationalist's anthem, won't be there to not stand.

[Avalon Memories]

Thanks for the link. Never heard it before. It sucks.