Posted on 06/25/2020 7:36:34 AM PDT by knighthawk
A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”
Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.
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I’m surprised it’s not The Youngbloods, Get Together, but I guess they have way too much hate for that.
Blatantly anti-American act.
The first US national team in any sport that I will openly root against.
Indeed. May they have a long losing streak.
The “Native Americans” came over on boats
or walked across ice bridges to Alaska
From CHYNA/Asia
They should go back too!!
Appropriate Disney Theme Park tune for the looney tunes soccer team that little attention is paid to.
It’s not patriotic it’s a commie anthem.
At least if an organization chose something like the theme from The Untouchables or Peter Gunn (instrumentals containing a lot of latent power imagery but no lyrics) it might make some sense. But no.
Oh, I forgot. Just what are their core values? They certainly don't align with the Conservatives'.
Pro sports had better shape up or they'll go the way of Aunt Jemimah.
You understand they are using the Anthem as a stepping-stone to the ultimate goal, getting rid of the Constitution.
Kate Smith is dead and maligned.
Woody Guthrie’s “freedom highway” was said to obviously mean the road to socialism.(review in the Commie rag Monthly Review,posted online May 1, 2011 for a book by Will Kaufman, Woody Guthrie, American Radical , 2011.)
Here are a few lines:
“Soon he was writing a regular column, “Woody Sez,” for the People’s World and later the Daily Worker, both published by the Communist Party USA.” and ... he told Daily Worker readers that “I seem to have been born a shade pink...
Over time, Guthrie became closer to Communist Party activists and began a serious but frustrated study of Marxism. He had trouble with the more theoretical material, and once scribbled a note in his copy of Lenin’s Theory of the Agrarian Question, wishing that he could “make all the thoughts of Marx and Engels and Lenin and Stalin and Wilkie and Roosevelt and Earl Browder fly down and roost in my brain.”
But despite his difficulties, Guthrie was committed to infusing his work with Marx’s critique of political economy—in his copy of Capital, he wrote, “Will memorize contents in a week or so.….
.... despite the aw-shucks persona, he took his political learning seriously and was moving toward a sophisticated analysis of social reality. More than simply portraying the squalor and brutality of life under capitalism, Guthrie sought to expose the real dynamics of the system and give voice to the experiences of all sorts of human beings caught up in its vast productive apparatus.....
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No thanks. We can do without Commies and their songs.
Do not get spun up this is a BS league they are what is called a development league. In other words this league is for people who either never made it to the pros or in some case never made it into college soccer. Often times the players are former high school stars. We tried to build a developmental team locally for the Marines and local high school kids to be seen by college coaches. We applied with the UPSL and were accepted but could not get local financing. All that is required was $5K per year for fees and travel expenses. NPSL falls below the USPL which is way below the USL and MLS. If they have 100 fans they are considered big league LOL!
‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’
Obviously, this lyric would be anathema to a mindset that requires kneeling and submission — like a slave.
Yes. School children (including the ones who are 20-30 year old "children" physically) will replace Kumbaya and Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore with Communist songs.
Hey, what can it hurt? Under a replacement for the American Flag singing folk songs?/s
Hard core commie...
I prefer this version by Claude King
This Land of Yours and Mine
Claude King
I have seen the warships on Manila Bay watched the sun a setting on the way
I’ve sailed the seven seas I’ve crossed the Great Divide
There’s nothing like this land of yours and mine
There’s nothing like this land yours and my land
From the New York harbor to the Frisco Bay
Up to Mississippi cross the wide Missoury
There’s nothing like this land of yours and mine.
But I really like the chorus to YOUR’E A GRAND OLD FLAG by George M. Cohan.
I guess “America, The Beautiful” would be a bridge too far! SMH
Yup. We have delved into this POS song and woodie before. I always hated this song.
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