Maher’s right - ONE national anthem is the right numbers.
Here’s the truth about the black national Anthem...
REPUBLICANS WROTE IT.
https://aapo.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/a-black-republican-wrote-the-naacps-national-anthem/
A BLACK REPUBLICAN WROTE THE NAACP’S NATIONAL ANTHEM
Source: National Black Republicans.com
NAACP’S NATIONAL ANTHEM James Weldon Johnson (1871 – 1938)
Every time the NAACP sings its national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, it honors a black Republican, James Weldon Johnson. This inspirational song, which was also adopted in the 1940’s by millions of black Americans as the Negro National Anthem, was written in 1900 by Johnson in collaboration with his talented musician brother, John Rosamond Johnson, to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
The NAACP itself was founded on President Lincoln’s 100th birthday, February 12, 1909, by white Republicans who opposed the racist practices of the Democratic Party and the lynching of blacks by Democrats.
And it wasn’t written as as anything political or nationalistic. It was written simply as a hymn. It’s been in Baptist hymnals for decades.
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