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-Great Cultural Revolution

NFL fans show the proper disdain for the so-called ‘Black National Anthem'

2024-02-13

[American Thinker] That the NFL went all-in for Black Lives Matter makes sense, given that almost 60% of pro football players are black. It even went all-in for playing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before games, including yesterday’s Super Bowl. It’s a lovely hymn in its own right, but there’s a problem: It’s billed as "the Black National Anthem." That’s why Rep. Steve Cohen, an uber-woke House member from Memphis, later tweeted out his disappointment that Super Bowl fans insisted on there being only one National Anthem. Tweeters soon set him straight.

The Star-Spangled Banner is America’s national anthem. This isn’t a traditional position. This is per American law, passed in 1931 and codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301(a). There is one United States of America and one legal national anthem, which applies to all people regardless of race, creed, sex, etc.. Long ago, America’s sports teams began the tradition of playing the anthem before games began.

Per the statute, when the flag is displayed, and the anthem is sung, people in attendance at the event should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart...

Although the law is never enforced, Americans who are not leftists voluntarily abide by it. They don’t salute kings or queens; they salute America’s symbol and the song that celebrates it.

But then there’s that hymn. As I said, it’s a very nice hymn celebrating God and liberty, and the melody is lovely. It is an essentially American song.

The problem is how the left is using it. By focusing on its title as "the Black National Anthem," leftists are essentially saying that Black Americans are a nation within a nation. There is, of course, no such thing. Even playing it at the Super Bowl right before the National Anthem itself isn’t going to make it an actual national anthem. Instead, it just takes a beautiful piece of music and makes it divisive.

To give you a sense of that divisiveness, you only need to look at the tweet from Rep. Steve Cohen, who was elected out of Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, like the NFL itself, has a population that’s around 60% black. That population may explain why Cohen saw fit to pander at an almost unimaginable level:

Posted by:Besoeker

#8 Yeah, but that was a SNL worthy skit.

As is most of pro-sports.

Should have had Limp Bizket sing it.

Being lectured about religion by a godless NGO right off the bat had me muting commercials.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-13 18:08

#7 I "watched" it with the TV on and the sound OFF while reading a book. Every so often I would look up to see if the game was still playing and what the score was -- watching the TV constantly was pointless because the game was constantly being interrupted by commercials and the like.

I doubt I will bother next year, though this year would have been a good game to watch without all of the interruptions (overtime drama and all that).

Posted by: magpie 2024-02-13 17:13

#6 Yeah, but that was a SNL worthy skit.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-13 15:43

#5 Tucker - Putin was 198 million views on X last I looked.

Posted by: KBK 2024-02-13 14:38

#4 They just announced on CBS this morning that 143 million people watched making it the most watched TV show ever. They were gloating. No doubt Taylor Swift helped them to accomplish this feat. Gag me with a spoon.

Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-13 11:21

#3 It’d be interesting to see what happens when someone takes a knee while that’s being played

Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2024-02-13 08:51

#2 No doubt it was the arrangement, because I found “the Black National Anthem” as sung at the Super Bowl uninspiring and insipid.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-02-13 02:38

#1 "Divide and conquer."

Google - The Latin phrase “Divide et impera” is as old as politics and war. The divide your enemy so you can reign approach is attributed to Julius Cesar — he successfully applied it to conquer Gaul twenty-two centuries ago (no typo). But he wasn't the first, nor the last, to implement it.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-13 01:39

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