Posted on 02/12/2023 8:10:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
This year’s Super Bowl will feature the singing of Lift Every Voice and Sing, otherwise known as the black national anthem, before the start of this year’s game.
The song will be sung before the U.S. national anthem.
According to Mashable, “If the Super Bowl is your introduction to national treasure Sheryl Lee Ralph, welcome. The veteran singer-actress is set to take the Super Bowl stage Sunday to perform what is known as the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” She’s joined by country singer Chris Stapleton singing the national anthem and R&B star Babyface performing “America the Beautiful.'”
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That’s it! I’m out! (Again!!)
Will they make all the white people leave the stadium until this “anthem” is over or just get on their knees?
One nation under God does not sing 2 national anthems
I haven’t watched more than a few minutes of any stupid bowl since the late 80s. Only because someone else had it on.
I was wavering but I’m out. I change some sparkplugs instead.
I have not watched an NFL game since the kneeling crap began....”Welcome to the party pal!”
These people could urinated on the American flag on the 50 yard line during half time, and these sports geeks would still watch it.
“R&B star Babyface”
Homie is 63 years old........time for a more current nickname bro.
Oh Darn, my wife is out of town at a funeral and I have to clean house. I really hate to miss it. /s
“ James Weldon Johnson, Chair of the Florida Baptist Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, had sought to write a poem in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. However, amid the ongoing civil rights movement, Johnson decided to write a poem which was themed around the struggles of African Americans following the Reconstruction era (including the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South). “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first recited by a group of 500 students in 1900. His brother J. Rosamond Johnson would later set the poem to music.[2][3][4]
After the Great Fire of 1901, the Johnsons moved to New York City to pursue a career on Broadway. In the years that followed, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was sung within Black communities; Johnson wrote that “the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country.”[2][5]”
Let’s be really inclusive. How about playing China’s anthem……first can stand for the Black NATIONAL Anthem, sit or take the knee for the Star Spangled Banner, then stand again while The March of Volunteers fills the stadium.
Why stop there? Why not also sing various Indian songs? And how’s about a Puerto Rican independence song too? Well, maybe they’ll do all that next year.
Side note to CC27: Thanks for posting this. It gives me another reason to not watch the Super Bowl. It’s a nice day in my neck of the woods. I believe I’ll hit the bike trails instead.
Yet many people will throw their money at people who hate them.
If the nfl is deliberately trying to divide the races they’re doin’ a helluva job.j
Are blacks a separate nation from us? That’s essentially the premise of segregation.
So how can there be a “Black National Anthem”???
The NFL can DIE.
Mexicans will want their anthem, ALLA EN EL RANCHO GRANDE, DONDE YO VIVIA.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoK_xTlw6DU
THE NFL STILL SUCKS!
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