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Super Bowl LVIII Black national anthem performance causes stir on social media
Fox news ^ | 02/11/2024 | Ryan Gaydos

Posted on 02/11/2024 6:09:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Andra Day performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem, ahead of Super Bowl LVIII and received a rousing ovation from the fans at Allegiant Stadium.

Day was tapped to sing the song last month as part of the NFL’s pregame festivities. Additionally, Reba McEntire sang the national anthem and Post Malone did "America the Beautiful."

As Super Bowl Sunday arrived and Day sang, NFL fans on social media hurled criticism for the league having the Black national anthem performed. It started early in the day and continued.

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To: Yogafist

“But I guess it’s easier to walk to the box cars than be carried fighting.”

The people are too stupid and lazy to fight for anything. Killing them has been easy for the elites. Hell, give them a donut and they line up for the Genocide Juice.


81 posted on 02/12/2024 5:31:14 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did anyone take a knee?


82 posted on 02/12/2024 5:32:13 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: alexander_busek

The point is to eventually replace The Star Spangled Banner with it, I give it about 20 years before that becomes reality.


83 posted on 02/12/2024 5:42:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: From The Deer Stand

I was hoping for an Indigenous People’s National Anthem. After all, it was the Chiefs playing.


84 posted on 02/12/2024 5:55:23 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We must have national anthems for every race. In fact, let’s just dispense with the game to make time for them all. Let’s just make a day of it. They must also be prioritized so as to not be raciss. Naturally, that means blacks first. Did I say “every race?” Of course I did not mean Jooooows or white people.


85 posted on 02/12/2024 5:55:45 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Never heard of the BLM national anthem - instead of rockets Red Glare, do they substitute Molotov cocktails and riots?
86 posted on 02/12/2024 6:48:08 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: alstewartfan
I wasn't watching the game...but I was sitting in the den with the wife while she was watching. I spent my time on my phone, but I would generally watch the commercials because that's always a hot ticket item during the SB.

Yes, the Jesus commercial(s?) were strange!

Did you see the Volkswagen commercial? It was kind of a history of VW in America, starting with the original Beetle coming off the ship...up to modern VW models...progressing thru various models over the decades. I'm not absolutely positive, but I think they had two women kissing while in the front seat of one of the older models...one of the women in a wedding dress. It was a brief shot of them, so I'm not positive.

Found it..go to about the 1:35 mark...two women swapping spit.

https://youtu.be/BjLzH8qj0gQ?si=dFGyAd3KiR5ezUsT

87 posted on 02/12/2024 6:54:00 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Yes, the Jesus commercial(s?) were strange!


Evil, more like.


88 posted on 02/12/2024 6:56:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I demand that they play the White National Anthem!
89 posted on 02/12/2024 6:58:41 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The migrants pouring illegally across the southern border are hoped to be the cure to the Black Plague infecting the City States


90 posted on 02/12/2024 7:02:44 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: firebrand
That song is not the black national anthem. Someone just decided to call it that. It’s a beautiful song that worships God and is not the slightest bit revolutionary. I wish everyone would just relax about this.

It is, indeed, a beautiful hymn--written before hymn-writing became a lost art--and it's in our hymnal. When we first performed it at our church, I thought, judging from the lyrics, that it was likely inspired by World War I and probably written during the Versailles Conference. However, it was written much earlier.

91 posted on 02/12/2024 7:08:45 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: MV=PY
The Homeless National Anthem

The Trans National Anthem

The Asian National Anthem

The Women's National Anthem

The Short People's National Anthem

92 posted on 02/12/2024 7:19:06 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: firebrand
That song is not the black national anthem. Someone just decided to call it that. It’s a beautiful song that worships God and is not the slightest bit revolutionary. I wish everyone would just relax about this.

I agree. While it was written from the perspective of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom of the "promised land." It speaks to all Americans in that respect. It was written in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, but it can also be seen as respecting all who died in the Civil War and the Revolutionary War:

Come to the place For which our fathers died. 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, 'Til now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

And it states that America is our, all of our American cititzen’s Native Land.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has 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.

93 posted on 02/12/2024 7:38:49 AM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: Fiji Hill

That’s WONDERFUL!

LOLOL!!!

Made my day. ;)


94 posted on 02/12/2024 7:45:15 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: dfwgator

Probably bankrolled by Soros. All I now know is that Jesus might have become an abortionist, chopping off instead of restoring ears, if he lived now, maybe he’d have worn a bloody vagina hat while washing feet.
Sick, sick propaganda.


95 posted on 02/12/2024 7:55:06 AM PST by alstewartfan (Amy Barrett and John Roberts are enemies of America and it's Constitution. )
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To: dfwgator
From a different article on the subject:

"Very very few stood for ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’" Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. wrote on X. "The Negro National Anthem. Not a pretty picture of Super Bowl crowd." Cohen represents a majority-Black district in western Tennessee.

We're getting there!

Regards,

96 posted on 02/12/2024 8:54:50 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: firebrand
I find it totally appropriate. I guess it’s a matter of opinion.

Except that I offered a logical argument for my standpoint. I pointed out discrepancies in the belief that "it's just a song." I explained my position.

All you do is state an opinion - without providing any back-up, any supporting arguments, any analogies - nothing!

Regards,

97 posted on 02/12/2024 12:15:04 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have no issue with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” being performed. It is a fine song.

I have an issue with it being presented as the Black National Anthem and performed under those auspices.


98 posted on 02/12/2024 12:19:49 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Williams

But if you blinked...


99 posted on 02/12/2024 12:23:56 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Karliner

To me it was calling anti-abortion protestors haters.


100 posted on 02/12/2024 12:27:12 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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