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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The NFL can go away now and forever.
It hasn’t mattered to me since the mid 80s.
Lives Matter!
If you need a color
in front of those words
YOU are a racist
Separate but unequal.
I am taking a knee before I turn off the TV...
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,”
BINGO.
Roger Goodall and the NFL can kiss my ass and go to hell.
Amen.
Goodell is in a bubble- no one else really cares what they do anymore. At this point, every time he changes course on a decision, he looks ridiculous.
The NFL has jumped the shark. Who cares we have bigger fish to fry. Right they are going draw people back with this virus crap really. And the black America anthem.
The dueling anthems give spectators an opportunity to take a knee during the fake one.
The NFL, “ The National F@@@@rs League” can now, and forever, get f@@@@d!
Doesn’t matter anymore.
Any American who watches one minute or spends one dime on the NFL is co-dependent traitor.
And so the balkanization of American begins.
I just started watching again last year after 2 year boycott.
I used to spend lots of $ on the NFL.
A game with my family every year.
NFL Sunday Ticket. NFL Game Pass.
Hotels, air line tickets, restaurants, bars.
Merchandise.
None the last 2 years
I’m gone again.
Goodell runs a very profitable business where the vast majority of the entertainers and revenue generators are black. Don’t expect him a have principles. He will do whatever needs to be done to keep the money flowing and his employees performing on cue.
Such a shame that this is happening to the one sport I owe so much too. Played in college, met my wife there and owe it all to the game I love. I will no longer be watching...for sure!
No. Fans. Left.
I’m done with all “pro” sports.
NCAA isn’t far behind.
F em.
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