Lift Every Voice and Sing is a lovely Christian song.
Getting triggered by something like this is what we mock the Libs for.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that hymn. I’ll have to Duck Duck Go it.
I think you're missing the point, which is that by declaring this the "Black National Anthem", and worse, having it performed at a game, is utterly racist and divisive.
Perhaps we should rebrand the Star Spangled Banner as the "White" National Anthem, and see how that goes. Maybe we can add "La Bamba" as the "Brown" National Anthem, and "Tiánmì mì" as the "Yellow" National Anthem.
I mean, as long as we're going to have separate anthems for "black" people, it would only be fair to have one for every other "color" too, no?
At English Rugby FA Cup playoffs, the tradition is to sing “Abide With Me” before every match. Its amazing to see 89K people singing it.
I’ve attended Rugby tournaments around the world, and the Brit expats (who tended to be conservative/traditionalists) often would lead the crowd singing various hymns during the matches (or at least they did 20 years ago - haven’t been to many since)
It would be fantastic if they started singing Christian hymns being all football games.
Not anymore. It’s “The Black National Anthem” now.
If it goes like this we will need New Anthems for:
1. Latinos 2. Native Peoples (one for each tribe )3. Chinese,4. Japanese, 5. Irish, 6.Canadians, 7. Haitians, How about for Gay people too? Disable? Ex-Soldiers? Children? Women? We could spend the first hour of the superbowl playing all the many anthems.