Posted on 02/13/2023 7:13:06 AM PST by Red Badger
While fans universally praised country music artist Chris Stapleton over his beautiful, tear-jerking rendition of America’s national anthem, plenty of people remain sharply divided over the inclusion of the so-called black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” for the first time in the Super Bowl’s long history.
To be sure, the performer sang admirably, and the critique lands squarely on both the NFL for forcing this racist, divisive song in the heart of a sports contest as well as the woke ruling class that seems immorally focused on skin color.
“The performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at Sunday’s Super Bowl marks the first time the Black National Anthem has been performed on-field at the NFL’s championship game,” Yahoo! News reported. “Actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph belted out the song prior to kickoff on Sunday.”
The internet immediately went berserk, calling out the NFL for capitulating to the woke mob as well as featuring a song meant not to unite, but further divide. It’s also blatantly redundant, as this country already has a national anthem – one that is meant for everyone.
Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial candidate and rumored 2024 Senate candidate Kari Lake earned props across the conservative space of Twitter for refusing to stand for the song.
Ironically, but not accidentally, the fake outrage mob pounced against Lake for defiling their sacred song (as of two years ago) but for years demanded everyone accept Colin Kaepernick and other millionaire black athletes kneel against their supposed oppression.
Twitter comments went absolutely nuts.
Lavern Spicer said: “The Black National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. The White National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. The Mixed National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. If you live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, your National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner.”
“Spoiler Alert: The people pushing the “Black National Anthem” aren’t trying to unify the country, they’re trying to divide it,” conservative account ALX said
“My “black” National Anthem is the same anthem I’ve been singing since I was a child. The same one children of all races have been singing. My National Anthem never needed a color. Do they want racism to die, or do they want to keep finding ways to divide us all?” a user rhetorically asked.
James Lindsay, long an opponent of woke identity politics, clearly outlined the issue, writing, “There’s no such thing. This is a mid-level provocation with the goal of starting a dialectical fight about how it is a real thing and the concept of “American” isn’t suitable to describe Americans. It’s an attack on American identity using race.”
Another user stated that “[h]aving a black national anthem is just another way that Democrats keep us divided.”
And conservative commentator Nick Adams blasted the actions, saying. “This song is disgraceful and disgusting. There is NO SUCH THING as a “black national anthem. This is the most egregious escalation of racial division since the Civil War. My expectations for the NFL were already low, but this is a whole new level of woke stupidity.”
Yahoo! News observed what fans have slowly been seeing creep into their television sets and stadiums has been a slow burn. While the Super Bowl featured the divisive song for the first time ever, it began its operations in 2020 after the controversial death of George Floyd. Yahoo! wrote:
The historic performance was the first time the song has been performed in an official capacity on a Super Bowl game field. Two years ago, Alicia Keys first performed the ballad during a pre-recorded Super Bowl broadcast. In 2022, singer Mary Mary gave a performance of the song from outside of the Super Bowl stadium in Inglewood, Calif., notes Billboard.
See the video performance below:
VIDEO AT LINK..............
Featured image: Screenshot from embedded Twitter video.
If you aren’t black do you have to stand?
I see nothing in those lyrics that I find offensive.
For me, black history in the US starts with the Casor lawsuit of 1654, where Anthony Johnson, a former indentured servant who had worked off his indenturement and become a wealthy freeman had John Casor working for him as an indentured servant.
Casor’s indenturement, having expired, wanted to work with a Robert Parker, Johnson’s neighbor.
Long story short, Johnson filed a suit in Northampton Court for the return of John Casor, and won with the court finding that Johnson (a black man) owned Casor (a black man). It was the first instance that a court in the colonies held that one man could own another.
For 15 years, based on the Casor case as precedent, only blacks could own blacks as slaves. It wasn’t until 15 years later that a law was passed allowing native americans and whites to own slaves.
So let’s all celebrate black history. Slavery, pioneered by blacks, for blacks, in the US.
he has veto power ... and didn’t use it ...
Hey!!
You can’t call them midgets anymore.
You just can’t Toss that out there.....
I didn’t hear any kind of request at all. I suppose it’s technically possible and they just didn’t broadcast it on TV but that would be odd. From what I saw they just started tossing out the music. No fanfare, no intros, no requests. Just the tunes.
It is INTENDED to divide, not unite. If we cannot stand at the same song, salute the same flag, love the same sets of standards, we are not united. We are UNtied.
It is their strong suit. You are welcome.
STOP WATCHING THE NFL!!!
The first year of Roger Goodell's commissioner-ship, I wrote him a letter and predicted that he would preside over the destruction of the NFL and its image. He seems determined to prove me correct!
Imagine the reaction if somebody hacked into the stadium’s system and replaced “Black National Anthem” with “Dixie”?
NFL Fans Bitterly React To Inclusion Of “Divisive”
Black National Anthem At Super Bowl
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Life is ever changing and has since the world began. It will
continue until we die of some cause or other. People forget
what this land called North America was like when Columbus
sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492. It will continue changing for
each until the end of times . JMO
DEI.
Millions of lolzz for your eruption
What any beer swilling nor racist wants to know is why is his (fake) Blondie
#### a coal burner and who cuts Patrick Mahomes sidewalls. I
Truly massively abhor such racism and am just saying
There is ONLY one National Anthem.........PERIOD
This song causes division........PERIOD
If you’re saying you want racial quotas on football teams then I don’t agree with you. Pick the best players, regardless of race.
Also, if the leagues allow biological males to play on girls and women’s sports teams, it will ruin girl’s/women’s sports.
Like Kwanzaa, more made-up bullshit.
I think it’s unfair that the Asians didn’t get their national anthem.
That was funny.
Also relevant
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