The NFL must learn there is only one national anthem!!!

[praguehawk]

There is only 1 National Anthem.

The NFL is pandering if they play more than 1 anthem.

Anyone who stands up for an anthem other than our own needs to be sat down asap.

I am pretty sure it was your ilk that was boycotting the NFL. Why are you even paying attention to the game?

 

[ConvenientParking]

Idea for new national anthem:

 

[83Hawk]

Reagan was open to the anthem being changed to America the Beautiful.

Many blacks are never going to support the current anthem.

(“No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave”) is the sticking point along with the author's personal beliefs. None of us can change how blacks think about it.

Having known many ww2 vets and the scars that war leaves for generations, maybe a none war song would be better.

Over 1/2 of the NFL players are black. Why not just drop playing an anthem?

What a dumb take.

 

[wausauhawk]

The NFL will continue trying to disunite America by featuring two separate “anthems” to begin the Super Bowl. Our country has only one national anthem, which speaks for all its citizens. To suggest otherwise is anathema.

As also happened last year, fans will be asked to stand at attention not just for “The Star-Spangled Banner” but also for “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” long known colloquially as the “black national anthem.”

The affront lies not in the message within the song but in the message sent by when and how the song is to be presented. By pairing it with the national anthem and expecting attendees to stand at attention, the NFL signals that “The Star-Spangled Banner” does not speak for everyone. Rather than respecting a single unifying anthem, the league presents two, one for white people and one for black people, as if the latter were not included in the meaning and grandeur of the first.

This is part of the political Left’s radical racial agenda of national division. Identity politics define people by racial or sexual group membership while immutably characterizing each group and each person within it as either victim or victimizer. Rather than one history in which modern sensibilities demand that black people receive equal recognition, separatism posits that there must be a separate month for black history. Rather than one course of mathematics, the “woke” educrats push a separate black mathematics. The separate black anthem is a musical endorsement of the forces and agenda that are driving deep fissures into our culture and threatening our society.

Even institutions such as the Smithsonian tell us that black people are oppressed by supposed attributes of “whiteness” that include individualism and “self-reliance,” the “nuclear family,” the “scientific method” using “objective, rational linear thinking,” and the “Protestant work ethic” emphasizing (Lord forbid!) that “hard work is the key to success.” To suggest this is to insult black people by asserting that they uniquely lack these qualities.

But the work ethic, self-reliance, rational thinking, and the rest are not congenitally foreign to people who have dark complexions.

When scores of NFL players several years ago refused to stand for the national anthem, their message was based on the misguided notion that the United States corporately was responsible for what was claimed to be a nationwide epidemic of police abusing black people. No data support those calumnies about police, nor did right reason support the condemnation of America as a whole as a racist nation.

The logic of those distorted assessments produced the idea that the national anthem itself is disreputable, or at least is exclusive of black people. This notion is horribly wrong. Frederick Douglass, a great black advocate of emancipation, loved to play “The Star-Spangled Banner” on his violin for his grandchildren, and he argued that the Constitution of the land the song honored was rightly interpreted as a document promising freedom to black and white alike.

The national anthem began being played ritually at sports contests at the end of World War I, and its playing became a universal practice for the NFL as World War II ended. It defies reason to think the song that, for generations, was understood to represent all Americans suddenly, about three years ago, became only for white people.

“To sing the ‘black national anthem’ suggests that black people are separatist and want to have their own nation,” said Timothy Askew, an English professor at historically black Clark Atlanta University, in a 2010 interview. “This means that everything Martin Luther King Jr. believed about being one nation gets thrown out the window.” Askew, who did copious research into the origins of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” added, “I think it is important that African Americans nationally understand that we should be moving towards racial cohesiveness,” but the idea of a “black national anthem” does the opposite.

Askew is right. The NFL is wrong. It’s fine to play a lovely song at some point during the festivities. There’s everything wrong, though, with using it to balkanize a civic ceremony of national unity and pride.

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It must be exhausting being you Rico. You start what, 5-10 threads per day about what upsets you. Chin up buttercup, better times are ahead for you, I can feel it.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

What a dumb take.

What a dumb take.

Dumb take to say it's dumb.

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

It is there and you won't change minds.

It was never an issue until recently.

 

[sabula]

Next they’ll be singing the child molester anthem.

Lying Donnie Sexual Abuser's favorite song.

 

[sabula]

There is only 1 National Anthem.

The NFL is pandering if they play more than 1 anthem.

Anyone who stands up for an anthem other than our own needs to be sat down asap.

Will the "losers and suckers" president stand for both?

 

[sabula]

Typical response of deflection from you as expected.

This is the Super Bowl it's not a revival meeting we don't need to be hearing some BS song.

Play the ONLY National Anthem and move on.

Let's not pander to some "I'm oppressed" group of attention seekers.

"Let's not pander to some group of " I'm oppressed" attention seekers. " Perfect description of the MAGA cult.

 

[sabula]

The civil war ended over a century ago, certain people need to get over it.

We gots 1 National Anthem.

And it was sung right before kickoff in a very nice rendition by Reba. How much of a trying-to-be-butt-hurt snowflake are you?

 

[sabula]

All I saw was a bunch of black sows squealing.

So you walked in on your family at dinner time?

 

[NewVicHawkeye]

Lessons in patriotism from a trumper is like Andy Reid turning to Brian Ferentz on how to move the ball on offense.

Figure out who to root for in the Olympics or when our Capitol is attacked before speaking on this issue ever again.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

It must be exhausting being you Rico. You start what, 5-10 threads per day about what upsets you. Chin up buttercup, better times are ahead for you, I can feel it.

What a dumb take

 

[sabula]

What a dumb take

But... accurate.

 

[Derekd3408]

It's called pandering. He doesn't even believe what he posted.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

It was never an issue until recently.

You would get disagreement. Social media and demise of print news changed access to being heard. Like it or not.

 

[tumorboy]

You would get disagreement. Social media and demise of print news changed access to being heard. Like it or not.

There’s been anthem protests at sporting events at least going back to 1968. Just know folks get all tribal butthurt about it online as u say. Either side. Say your peace and play ball. It’s really not affecting anyone in a significant way is it. It’s a society with too much free time and not enough real problems.

 

[jasonrann]

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

You would get disagreement. Social media and demise of print news changed access to being heard. Like it or not.

This of course explains why hundreds and hundreds of black artists have performed the star spangled banner.

Here's a ranking of the top 10 super bowl renditions of all time. Top 4 are black artists.

Super Bowl all-time national anthems: Ranking best performances from Whitney Houston to Lady Gaga

A look at some of the best Super Bowl national anthem renditions

www.cbssports.com

 

[RicoSuave102954]

It must be exhausting being you Rico. You start what, 5-10 threads per day about what upsets you. Chin up buttercup, better times are ahead for you, I can feel it.

I'm not even remotely close to the amount of butthurt threads that Ciggy posts per day.

 

[ISUBryceC]

I can't imagine caring about this.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I watch the SB game like I do any other other FB game. I DVR it, FF to kickoff, through every commercial, halftime and stop at the final gun. Takes about an hour so I have more time with OP's mom...

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

This of course explains why hundreds and hundreds of black artists have performed the star spangled banner.

Here's a ranking of the top 10 super bowl renditions of all time. Top 4 are black artists.

Super Bowl all-time national anthems: Ranking best performances from Whitney Houston to Lady Gaga

A look at some of the best Super Bowl national anthem renditions

www.cbssports.com

You don't get it.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

You don't get it.

No, it's you that doesn't get it.

This is all engineered.

 

[VodkaSam]

The civil war ended over a century ago, certain people need to get over it.

We gots 1 National Anthem.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Trumpy MAGAs are such snowflakes. You get frightened and bothered by things no one else notices.

NFL is a business. They can pick and choose whatever the hell they want to play. You don’t like, don’t watch it.

Next Super Bowl Sunday you can sit in a dark room all by yourself and complain about a song no one else really paid any attention to, and write more hate mail to Anheuser Busch about Bud Light.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

No, it's you that doesn't get it.

This is all engineered.

I think a lot is engineered. This is one not worth the argument. Key was clearly racist. Most of us never heard the verse 10 years ago. Somethings are worth the fight. Not this one.

Doesn't belong. Time to heal obvious issues. This one is obvious.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

It never ceases to amaze me how the Trumpy MAGAs are such snowflakes. You get frightened and bothered by things no one else notices.

NFL is a business. They can pick and choose whatever the hell they want to play. You don’t like, don’t watch it.

Next Super Bowl Sunday you can sit in a dark room all by yourself and complain about a song no one else really paid any attention to, and write more hate mail to Anheuser Busch about Bud Light.

AB and Bud Light are finished.

When Andra Day and the fat ink blots started singing I left the room to take a shit.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

AB and Bud Light are finished.

When Andra Day and the fat ink blots started singing I left the room to take a shit.

That's because who the end consumers of those products are.

 

[Fan In Black]

the NFL is a dumbass. learn much?