Posted on 07/05/2020 5:56:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is now being reported that the NFL will be playing “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song that has been called the “Black national anthem,” before all NFL games in Week 1.
This is a high-risk, low-reward move by the NFL. There are countless problems with this strategy to appease the woke mobs, and it would be difficult to overstate just how foolish and dangerous it is.
First of all, a “Black national anthem” can only exist if there is a broad acceptance of the notion that black people, as a racial category, share a common identity with other sovereign nations. Additionally, defining a separate “Black national anthem” to be played alongside the America’s National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” presupposes that the latter is insufficient to alone represent black Americans as it represents all others.
These are insane propositions that would, until recently, have been unthinkable at any moment of my life. This is the same National Anthem was played in 1936 Olympic Games when Jesse Owens proudly accepted gold medals on behalf of his countrymen, of all races, in Berlin. His broad smiles and the American flag that fluttered over him vexed his Nazi hosts who insisted that race was fundamental to one’s national identity. America, you see, represents something much nobler than that. It represents an immutable truth, rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief that we are all created in God’s image, and one that Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized as our national creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
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I'd put up with a lot of BS, but no more....
I'm gone...Goodell can KMA
Despite all the patronizing, politically correct behavior wonder if Goodell understands reality. The people at the core of BLM would love nothing more than to roast Goodell on a spit and feed him to the dogs.
Despite all the patronizing, politically correct behavior wonder if Goodell understands reality. The people at the core of BLM would love nothing more than to roast Goodell on a spit and feed him to the dogs.
That's what they're betting on. People will get fired up and boycott for a bit, but eventually will cave.
IF we don't maintain the boycott the Left wins.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=kpPEZuw_i6g
Jericho Green on this anthem (WARNING -Language)
NFL are thugs and cowards.
The NFL, NBA and NASCAR are a thing in the past, to be read about in history books. To drive past the crumbling stadiums and venues that housed their sports.
How can you, or anyone, doubt it anymore? They are a separate nation.
All that's left is working out the details.
And that's after they've eaten shit and died.
THE ONLY WAY WE, OUR SIDE, IS GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN THIS STINKING, ROTTEN, WICKED NATION IS FOR US, OUR SIDE, TO START STAYING HOME AND NOT ATTEND GAMES, BUY THEIR JUNK MADE IN RED CHINA, NOT WATCH ON TV. WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR POINT!!! WE SPEND OUR MONEY ON THIS CRAP AND YAP ABOUT IT, BUT WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. IT IS TIME TO DO JUST THAT!!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND DO IT NOW, OTHERWISE, WE NEED TO JUST SHUT UP BECAUSE WE AREN'T GOING A DAMNED THING BUT YAP. TIME TO DO SOMETHING!! PLAN AND DO!! MAKE A DIFFFERENCE!!! DON'T BUY. DON'T GO. DON'T SPEND. DON'T BACK THEIR CRAP. MARCH ON THEIR CRAPPY SITES AND CRAPPY STATUES. DON'T WATCH THEIR STINKING TV SHOWS OR GO TO THEIR WICKED CRAPPY MOVIES AND MAKE THEM MILLIONAIRES!!! MAKE THEIR BALL PLAYERS MILLIONAIRES!!! TIME TO REBEL AGAINST THEIR CRAP!! TIME TO STAND UP. OTHERWISE FOLKS, WE'VE LOST OUR NATION.
Our first step is to get right with our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ!!! Because without Him, we lose!! Don't think so?? Don't believe in Him?? Do so at your own peril!! THAT folks, is truth!!
Roger Goodell is such a tone-deaf @ss. Hasn’t he done enough to destroy the NFL?
The only sound he’s going to hear is that of SILENCE as TV sets all over America are turned OFF when it’s Football Sunday, Monday or Thursday.
KAEPERNICK FOR NFL COMMISSIONER!!!
Jay-Z is already pretty much running the NFL.
I’d love to boycott them, but I also lost interest in the mid-80s. I was stationed overseas for 8 years. I always knew the scores before I could see the games so I lost interest. It never came back. I’d like to boycott the NBA too, but I’ve never been interested.
All I can do now is ridicule anyone who wants to keep watching them.
Will blacks have their own drinking fountains and bathrooms in the stadiums?
Welcome to “Separate But Equal”.
They lost me when the players started doing those idiotic, junior high grade celebrations in the end zone. Half of them wouldn’t be qualified to operate the drive up window at a McDonalds.
dead, dead, dead, so is NASCAR.
If they are a separate nation, where is their land? South Side of Chicago?
If I want football games, I will buy one of those vintage NFL teams vibrating field things with the figures that move all over randomly.
I don’t see me getting one of them either.
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