What tha what 😲?

[BlessedVeteran0305]

I never even knew something like this existed. Am I the only one that is clueless about there being a “Black National Anthem”?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nfl-play-black-national-anthem-210923979.html

[Katsaregood]

Nope, you are not alone. Since I don’t wach the news or follow sports it wasn’t until reading a different thread on TBH that I ever heard of such a thing.

[okiepighunter]

Smh

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Sorry forgot to add the link.

[Dusty Britches]

While the song was written long ago, the "new" ideology repurposed it during the lockdowns and it's purpose is to divide our country. It is one of many reasons sports fans have walked away, viewership is way down.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Seems like you are right about that.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Glad I’m not the only one that didn’t know about it

[Danno]

Another year not watching my Cowboys :-(

[lovemylegacy]

Did not know till about a week ago.....who knew?

[coker737]

It’s BS

[tminc]

Capitol BS

[jerp]

Just a little history - that song has been around since 1900. In 1919 the NAACP started calling it the "Negro National Anthem". (there was no official national anthem until 1931) Nothing at all wrong with the song but there is only one national anthem. Singing two versions just further divides us. "Lift Every Voice" is actually in some Protestant hymnals. The lyrics:

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land

[imyomama]

Just a little history - that song has been around since 1900. In 1919 the NAACP started calling it the "Negro National Anthem". (there was no official national anthem until 1931) Nothing at all wrong with the song but there is only one national anthem. Singing two versions just further divides us. "Lift Every Voice" is actually in some Protestant hymnals. The lyrics:

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land

well that won't last long ... too many mentions of God , prayers ,and father!

[Benno]

If I played in the NFL and kneeled or stayed in the locker room for this anthem, would I be condemned or praised?



Come on Nike deal!