The NFL recently announced it would play “Lift Every Voice and Sing” alongside the national anthem at all of its big games, making permanent its 2020 Black Lives Matter tributes. No one has to worry about the racism of the black national anthem. Like Juneteenth’s relationship with July 4th, this act would likely lead to the eventual usurpation of the black anthem over the national anthem. Powerful lawmakers proposed a bill this year to make the black national anthem - “Lift Every Voice and Sing” - the nation’s “hymn.” It wouldn’t necessarily replace the anthem, but it would stand as equal to the Star-Spangled Banner. This year, a petition was started to change the anthem because it promotes elitism and racism. In 2017, the California NAACP demanded the state dump the Star-Spangled Banner. These reasons are why some Americans want to replace the national anthem. It’s disrespectful and it does not speak for Black Americans,” she told an interviewer.
“The third verse speaks about slaves and our blood being slang and pilchered all over the floor. When Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry wanted to defend her “protest” of the anthem, she cited this racist verse for why she should show no respect for it. That (based) verse is now highlighted to argue the anthem is racist.
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O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave An unsung verse of the anthem is considered “racist.” It reads: Its author, Francis Scott Key, was a slave owner. The media fawns over every athlete who takes a knee while the anthem plays and hates anyone who does join in the protest. The height of patriotism is now protesting the anthem during sporting events. The good news is that the regime and its lackeys don’t particularly like the national anthem anymore. We’re left pretty much with the Star-Spangled Banner and the Pledge of Allegiance. Most white Americans don’t have Confederate ancestors, and most of them don’t know these songs. There are great rebel songs - such as “Dixie” and “I’m A Good Ol’ Rebel - but those are too region-specific. The Battle Cry of Freedom is all about crushing the rebellious South, for instance.
Historic American songs - such as the Battle Cry of Freedom - aren’t passed down well, and many of them smack of triumphal liberalism. Well, maybe if you discount Toby Keith’s jingoistic ditties about putting a boot in a terrorist’s ass and worshipping the troops. But even with the American Right, we don’t have our own songs. It is the national anthem after all people should know it. The Star-Spangled Banner - for all its kitsch and association with sports events - is arguably the one song nearly all Americans know. There are very few shared songs in America, outside of a few pop songs.
Parents protesting Critical Race Theory in their children’s schools have also sung it at school board meetings. The Trump supporters locked away in a DC jail are not the only ones to embrace the Star-Spangled Banner as their protest anthem. A song that right-wingers may have scoffed at as the anthem for the Empire of Nothing now represents the resistance to the Empire. Liberal elites prefer the black national anthem over it, and its “problematic” nature is increasingly noted. But increasingly the national anthem is associated exclusively with the Right. The national anthem may make for an odd protest song for Americans incarcerated by the government represented by said tune. To voice their protest, they belt out the Star-Spangled Banner from their jail cells every night. Several January 6 protesters remained locked up without just cause in a Washington D.C.
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