“An Attack On American Identity”: NFL Fans Bitterly React To Inclusion Of “Divisive” Black National Anthem At Super Bowl

American Tribune ^ | February 13, 2023 | Staff

[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.

[cgbg]

We are not headed to a “race war” since many of the traitors are white.

We are headed to a world where the elite rules with an iron fist and use race and climate change and national security as excuses to put a boot on our face.

[NWFree]

I was pleasantly surprised cause I thought she was a rapper

I didn’t even have to turn it off like I usually do

[discostu]

Not really. Way back in 1919 the NAACP declared it the “negro national anthem” because of its “cry for liberation”. Which to me isn’t very different than declaring the Cowboys “America’s team”. In the end it’s a pretty song, with a nice message, that really doesn’t have to be color based at all and isn’t in the original text. So in the end what we got was:
a patriotic country song
a kinda patriotic black gospel song
and a patriotic folk song

Really, not a big deal.

[Red Badger]

what’s the largest non-white group in America?

Latinos...............

[MayflowerMadam]

“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.”

You’re not even close to the meaning of the song. You’ve bought in to the left’s crap. If you believe this, then you’re good with their corruption of the word, “gay”, and the meaning of the rainbow.

They steal good things and make them bad. They’ve done it with this old hymn written by two black brothers (not “bros”) and sung in white churches for a century.

[discostu]

Yeah. What I see was a demographic spread of “target audiences”. They didn’t put any demands on anybody, they didn’t introduce any of them. Just “here’s some songs, enjoy what you like”.

[NWFree]

“ Maybe we can add “La Bamba” as the “Brown” National Anthem, “

Now there’s a song we can have fun with! Lol

[glorgau]

This why I don’t watch these silly events anymore. All the politics that get injected.

Just play the game and maybe a show or something for half time entertainment.

[lastchance]

Wait till certain people grasp it is a hymn written by the president of “The Colored Republican Club”. It will lose the moniker of “Black National Anthem” right quick.

[momincombatboots]

Nice post! Did they sing that? I have often considered statistics show Biblical Christianity is found more frequently with blacks.

[lastchance]

It is not a racist song. It is a beautiful hymn. That it has been hijacked to those who use it for political ends does not make it racist. It was written by a black republican.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Do they want racism to die, or do they want to keep finding ways to divide us all?” a user rhetorically asked."

There is NOTHING rhetorical about that question. None. Why would the author add that incorrect modifier?

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸nailed it in a tweet...

The only thing that can unite America forever is creating separate national anthems for each different ethnic groups. I demand each one be played before every game, especially the Superbowl."

Yes, three hours of every separatist, divisive ethnic national anthem would be great. Followed by five minutes of football.

[I want the USA back]

Thanks for the correction. I see it’s not a racist song at all. Damn the left for corrupting something beautiful!

[I want the USA back]

Thanks for the correction. I see it’s not a racist song at all. Damn the left for corrupting something beautiful!

[Toespi]

Why not just play “MARCH OF THE VOLUNTEERS” the Chinese National Anthem. It’s much shorter, and conveys the same message.

Stand up! Those who refuse to be slaves!
With our flesh and blood, let’s build our newest Great Wall!
The Chinese Nation is at its greatest peril,
Each one is forced to let out one last roar.
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!
We are billions of one heart,
Braving the enemies’ fire, March on!
Braving the enemies’ fire, March on!
March on! March on! On!

[Varda]

Yup, complaining about this is like going to a KKK meeting and complaining that there are racists and FBI agents there.

[JSM_Liberty]

“Nice post! Did they sing that? I have often considered statistics show Biblical Christianity is found more frequently with blacks.”

They just sang the first verse, nothing objectionable in it that I can find.

“Lift every voice and sing,
’Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening 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 ’til victory is won.”

[US_MilitaryRules]

Right up there with the Whitney Houston’s version.

[Red Badger]

What little bit of show we watched, she looked ANGRY and SULLEN, as if she was not happy to be there and hated the audience.................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here is an informative and interesting history of the hymn. Well worth reading.

History of Hymns: "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

By C. Michael Hawn, Discipleship Ministries

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) received degrees in literature from Atlanta University in 1894, with a master of arts in 1904. He had a versatile career as a writer, teacher, diplomat and lawyer, becoming the first African-American to pass the bar in the state of Florida. His diplomatic posts took him in 1906 to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, and in 1909, to Corinto, Nicaragua, where he served as the American consul.

His most prominent leadership role was as the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a position that he assumed in 1920.

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He was an educated and accomplished man who wrote an inspirational hymn, no doubt. But that doesn't warrant using his song as a separatist hymn at events.