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NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: Report
The Washington Times ^ | July 15, 2021 | Victor Morton

Posted on 07/16/2021 4:55:17 PM PDT by ebb tide

NFL to play Black national anthem before all major 2021 games, events: Report

The NFL reportedly plans to play the so-called Black national anthem before all its major events in the upcoming season.

As part of a doubling down on its politicking from last season, America’s biggest professional sports league will play “Lift Every Voice And Sing” before all “tentpole events,” according to a report in Front Office Sports.

The site reported, citing unnamed league sources, that those high-profile events will include the NFL Kickoff Game on Sept. 9, all playoff games including the Super Bowl, and the league’s college draft.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will not replace the national anthem, but instead be played in addition to it, according to the report.

However, those tentpole events are usually the only ones in which “The Star-Spangled Banner” makes it onto the TV broadcasts.

Meaning that every time the league pipes the national anthem into America’s homes this season, it’ll be accompanied by “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Front Office Sports explained.

This leaning in on political demands in a politically polarized nation stands in contrast to most other major professional sports leagues, even the NBA, which is removing most of the on-floor social slogans.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; didyousearch; goodell; nfl; obamasfault; postedseveraltimes; wokeness
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

No they are getting the blacks to hate whites and have ben for decades

They are making whites wary of blacks in general because you dont know what you’re going to run into, you have to assume worst case scenario


41 posted on 07/16/2021 5:36:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well I’d sing an anthem to Derrick Henry because he is, after all, the “king”. But I’ll mock the wack national anthem “Lift Every Voice And Sing” to scorn.


42 posted on 07/16/2021 5:44:36 PM PDT by Theophilus (Dems fear fear. Christians fear God. )
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To: ebb tide

Don’t care I never ever watch the crap


43 posted on 07/16/2021 5:47:52 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ebb tide

I wonder what the Asian-Pacific Islander National Anthem is? And do the latins have one, too?


44 posted on 07/16/2021 5:48:21 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ebb tide

45 posted on 07/16/2021 5:55:02 PM PDT by JPG (Think carefully because you can't unjab the jab.)
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To: VanShuyten

Beat me to it but I will add White National Anthem before NHL games and Dominican Republic Anthem before MLB games.


46 posted on 07/16/2021 5:57:48 PM PDT by ClaytonForester
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To: The Free Engineer

They can triple down and build bathrooms and drinking fountains that say “Colored” on them.


47 posted on 07/16/2021 5:59:52 PM PDT by JMS
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To: ebb tide

Amd I thought I could not care any less about the NFL


48 posted on 07/16/2021 6:00:32 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ebb tide

Interesting

Not the Black American Anthem.

Instead. The Black NATIONal Anthem.


49 posted on 07/16/2021 6:01:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: The Free Engineer

I wonder how many non-black people/players will kneel? This is ridiculous. Should we play the Mexican National Anthem, too?


50 posted on 07/16/2021 6:02:35 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: ebb tide

I’ll be watching F-1, IMSA or IndyCar races,thenkyouverymuch. Eff the NLF!


51 posted on 07/16/2021 6:05:02 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: ebb tide

So the “major” events are just a few?

I got idea the other day that this was EVERY game.

Still, I don’t like it.


52 posted on 07/16/2021 6:10:14 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: hsmomx3

It would seem the NFL has a death wish. One would think the billionaire owners were smarter than that.


53 posted on 07/16/2021 6:26:39 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: escapefromboston; All

I had came to the conclusion that it was not a good thing to watch young men exposing themselves to the risk of CTE. I had quit watching boxing many years before and concluded the NFL was similar. These two sports are sort of like watching gladiators. Best not to encourage.


54 posted on 07/16/2021 6:37:09 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Secret Agent Man

A “black national anthem” doesn’t make people “wary” of blacks. It makes them sick and tired of them.

I can only hope that Americans are smart enough to realize that this is exactly what the chicken-fried mafia types like HRC pushing this want.


55 posted on 07/16/2021 6:45:27 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

All the kowtowing to blacks makes people wary. Because it doesnt fix anything it makes more and more demands and they as a group only get angrier and angrier.

This appeasement bs is kowtowing.


56 posted on 07/16/2021 6:46:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Bookshelf

African-Americans make up about 13% of the USA population and are behind the biggest minority in the USA Latinos & Hispanics!!! And...the African-American population is inter marrying at rapid rates across the entire USA!!!

Does any American remember the bias against Italians, Irish, Polish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Asian, Orientals, etc. Not many..why...intermarriage..,period!!! Each year the number of “pure” African-Americans diminishes through widespread intermarriage!!! The Democrat Party is destroying themselves!!!


57 posted on 07/16/2021 6:48:42 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

They are just trying to divide us that is all


58 posted on 07/16/2021 6:50:18 PM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Enlightened1

Why ?

Why does any normal, red-blooded citizen of the United States still support the National Fraud League ?


59 posted on 07/16/2021 6:52:16 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Secret Agent Man

Oh, I think you are right that there is an aspect of wariness. I see it as coming from the CRT more, however. Blacks are acting out violently in response to this, and people notice.

The “anthem” pisses off Americans, as it takes away one of their favorite entertainments. It may also cause some disconnect in blacks, like publicly doing something to your sister, since that is what it looks like.


60 posted on 07/16/2021 7:00:03 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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