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:
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Featured image: Screenshot from embedded Twitter video.
The NBA sold out to the CCP ages ago. Ditto for NHL. What, you suspend your critical survival instincts to watch and support these outlets just so you can wear a jersey and drink beer on the couch? Geesh. GTFUp!
https://poets.org/poem/lift-every-voice-and-sing
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson - 1871-1938
Lift every voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
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.
I didn’t see it and if they play it at any game I attend, I’ll take a knee.
I no longer watch the NFL, or MLB. I never watched much NBA anyway. And after many decades of watching UK basketball, I don’t watch them anymore either after Calipari took a knee during the National Anthem some time back.
People gripe too much. Really it was in a block of “America” type songs along with Ragged old Flag and America the Beautiful, nobody introduced as any kind of anthem. Really the only people who made a big deal about it are the folks complaining. It’s a pretty song, deal.
What dumb ass allowed this stupid shit to happen? Name or names!
Let’s work on division and destruction of a country. Yah... That’s a genius choice.
Who are the morons involved approving, doing and pulling off this crap.
Actual names and positions with what companies.
Well between that and the GINORMOUS EV push and the no talent half time (anyone know what that was?) the game itself was not bad. Lucky for everyone the NFL apparently plans to expand it’s ‘dei’ 🐎💩 even more. Could some one remind them that a certain group is over represented in the nfl? Like 58%-42%. Approx.....
I wasn’t watching. I refused to have my TV showing a racist song that fosters the idea that one group of people is responsible for another group’s massive failures.
Lift Every Voice and Sing is a lovely Christian song.
Getting triggered by something like this is what we mock the Libs for.
and it is a Christian hymn, here is the third verse
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
How did fans react to the pregnant lady doing a half-assed strip club routine at half-time?
You couldn’t be more wrong
You for one welcome your woke overlords. May your chains rest lightly upon you.
And don’t worry, while you’re sitting on your ass we’ll do something constructive about this trend.
The American Indian national anthem is coming . . .
You remind of the Jews celebrating the anthem at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Dumb people never see it coming.
“I refused to have my TV showing a racist song that fosters the idea that one group of people is responsible for another group’s massive failures.”
What makes you think that a Christian hymn is a racist song?
LOL! In my group the questions were 'is she pregnant' and 'did she just have a baby?' and more in general, WTF is this?
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
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Cuck…deal.
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