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This world is just insane.
I'll bite.
What the hell is a "black" national anthem?
So now this ignorant identity, race politics just keeps going further and further off the rails. How you were born continues to be the most important quality of anyone's life. To hell with the concept that we are one nation and although we have different backgrounds we are all unified as one people, one nation. We strive to focus on the things we have in common and what unifies us. The national anthem brings us all together as one country.
Nope... that isn't good enough for race-baiters. How you were born is the only thing that matters and differences must endless be pointed out and emphasized. Everyone comes together to watch a sport? Let's make sure we point out all of our differences and divisive issues at the game. Let's invent some new national anthem... only for blacks. Does that mean an "Asian anthem" is right around the corner, a "Latino" national anthem, a "female" national anthem, a "LGBT" national anthem... etc.
As I said at the beginning what is a "black" national anthem? Did they make up a completely new song?
People are just insane now. This stuff is just so old.
There's a black nation in the United States? Where is it?
Sports should not be involved with politics. I really hate that everything that is supposed to be entertainment now is now political stunts. Why not just play China's national anthem right after? And heck, let's throw in all socialist countries anthems right after.. Sports is supposed to be a distraction from all the crap going on in the world, now we can't even have that. Since the NFL support communist groups like BLM, can they all get taxed like 80% because that's what they're supporting? The rich getting taxed into oblivion...
I've never heard the anthem, please tell me it's not a rap
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It's bullshit in every possible way. These decisions are never about justice, it's about Wokism and Woke Culture which is looking forward to divide people by race even further, to categorize people. To create angry black victims and woke guilty whites towards one common enemy: America. The same people who sing the motto of caring about black lives are the ones who are in majority control of cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit, where black on black crimes are high and poverty sky-rocket but they do nothing about it. Only when a white person slaps a black person in the face; New York Times, USA Today, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, Coca Cola and other woke companies like NFL jump to action to pretend to care while dividing the country even further for their own common goal.
These are the people who benefit from racism and it's idea and stress, so they keep it on life support and keeping it relevant.
None of these decisions are independent. They all are on the same table. Period.
I feel sorry for my some of my fellow Americans for being such simple-minded fools.
"Commitment to social justice"? Okay, I suppose people can have good-faith disagreements about how best to resolve the problems plaguing the country, but how is singing another song going to help anything? I question why fixing massive social problems is really the purview of a sports league anyway, but you spend a quarter of a billion dollars to improve conditions for the race that makes up the majority of your playerbase, and what you come up with is... singing?
Not "setting up programs to enhance community or familial cohesion". Not "funding trade schools and other education programs to provide job training and combat the school-to-prison pipeline". Heck, not "overlooking minor criminal histories to help people get a second chance". No. Singing. That's what's missing here.
And you do this in the name of "antiracism". You want to get rid of racism by being more racist. Way to challenge stereotypes about intellectual inferiority there, NFL.
I think we should stop with the nonsensical tradition of playing national anthems at sporting events, with the exception of international tournaments or the Olympics where the team playing is like “Team USA” or whatever. It’s simply not the appropriate venue for it, and that goes for any country. We don’t do it at concerts, often at the very same stadiums with the same huge crowds... what’s the difference? We don’t do it at smaller entertainment events like the movies or the theater. Sports, music, cinema, and plays all have one thing in common: they all have absolutely nothing to do with government, politics, the military, patriotism, America or whatever country you’re in, nor should they... so why the anthem? It’s not meant to be disrespectful, it’s just genuinely not related and it isn’t the time or place for it. If you play it at a parade on the 4th of July, totally appropriate. National Team/Olympic competitions, I get it. I mean, there’ll be an NHL game in Tampa, they play the US anthem but everyone on the ice is Canadian, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, etc... so it’s not for the players, it must be for the fans then. Did the fans request this? I just don’t understand how this all became a thing, it’s kinda wild. I’m not offended by it or anything, I’m just saying it’s completely unnecessary to the point of the entire event we’re attending, and if it’s going to be a point of friction we might as well skip the whole thing. As far as the Black National Anthem... all due respect, but I gotta be consistent and say it’s not the correct venue for anthems. Within the context of “there will continue to be anthems at sporting events despite what WhiteSteve thinks about it”, I’m happy for anyone who’s happy about it, but I know the NFL too well to think that was done with any sincerity, I know Roger Goodell just wet a finger and stuck it in the air to see which way the public opinion wind was blowing.
We have a black national anthem? For what nation, Wakanda? Are African Americans not Americans or what? I know everyone used to sing that in church and all, but I didn't know it became "the black national anthem."
No, I don't agree with this social justice propaganda BS to push more demoralization onto the masses and cause more division among people. It's stupid and no one who watches football cares about this horsesh*t. I don't even care if we have the real national anthem or not; just keep politics out of things!
Since the majority of the NFL is black, I understand why they’re including it. However, the bigger question is…why is the national anthem necessary in the first place? What has a show of patriotism got to do with professional sports or any sports? It’s a tradition that never made much sense to me.
How is the original one racist? Which line or word in the Star Spangled Banner is so filled with inequality and hate that the ENTIRE song needs to be replaced? And how is the replacement song "Widely Recognized?" The first I've heard of it. Can players "take a knee" during it? This just sounds like the NFL trying to get a ratings boost for their drug taking, spouse abusing narcissistic players. Any way they try and sell it I am still not watching overpaid children play for criminal corporate companies after already selling their "talents" to said companies.
Their new business strategy seems to be making as many extra efforts to alienate (turn away) millions of fans, best solution at this moment would be not to play anything at all, and just focus on their job, to be a football organization, not morality police, justice warriors, or anything else... people turn on football to be entertained, watch football, not be lectured, whether directly, or indirectly.
Part of a $250,000,000 "investment" towards social justice? That's probably the worst investment in the history of investments- that money is going straight into buying some grifter a bigass mansion, and the rest into some PAC. Pats on the back all around- they just cured perceived inequality by paying off con artists and dividing the nation!
I'm Hungarian, why don't they play the Hungarian Waltz before every game too?
This is what we call first world problems. We're debating stupid bullshit that doesn't matter while our infrastructure in this country descends into 3rd world conditions.
Lol what a waste of money. The people who tune in for the sport itself won't care, and the people who DO care about the 'social justice messaging' will say it's "not going far enough". When you try to get in bed with the woke mob, you end up making endless concessions with nothing to show for it.
Blacks already got their Juneteenth, now we need this too? Whatever. The NFL is a private organization, so they can do whatever they want. Why does the NFL need to even play the National anthem anyway? It’s not a government event. I quit watching sports years ago. Too many tattoos, long dreadlocks, spitting, and showboating to suit me.
SMH. We don't have 2 national anthems -- one for black people and one for white people. We have ONE national anthem for ALL PEOPLE of all races!!
Why are the SJWs always trying to divide everyone? It's really sickening. I don't think ALL of these people have malicious intentions, but I'm kind of starting to believe that SOME of them do! There are some evil folks that just want to intentionally cause conflict and destroy America.
We have s national anthem for everyone. Playing one that’s for one race is exclusionary and panders to racists. The NFL is also pushing false political and social narratives when most fans simply want to watch games rather than indoctrination.
I would have an issue with it if it was a National team, but to my knowledge the NFL is just a private "football" confederation so they could play baby shark at the beginning of a game and I would not give a shit as they do not represent the nation
I remember when sports brought us together.
I enjoyed being at sports bars to watch your team. When your team would score you would all be jumping up in celebration with people of all races that you didn't even k ow personally. But that didn't matter. Once the game started every one was your buddy.
Watching sports was an escape from the chaos of the world.
Once politics were brought into sports those good times are gone.
It actually does the opposite of what they want. It promotes making everyone seeing Black people as "different" instead of equal. The act actually perpetuates racial division instead of promoting racial equality.
I am for it. Who cares? Only stupid people get angry angry about stuff like this. If you don't want to hear the song, come late to the game or stuff napkins in your ears. :)
America Love it or leave it. The very thought of a black American anthem is racist within itself. The US anthem happens to be For every race color and creed. I’ve never heard of anything so selfish and ego centric in my life. Hi say boycott the NFL and put them out of business. Ever since they’ve been pulling this crap I have not watched a single game. Will never again as long as this is the way they want to be.
As an African American I want to clarify some misconceptions based on ignorance I have seen. 1. I do not think having the Black national anthem played is going to do anything to improve race relations but it’s nice to have that representation. 2. The United States national anthem “The Star Spangled Banner” brings up slavery which is why African Americans don’t really feel patriotic singing it. 3. That’s why we took up the song “Lift Every voice” as our national anthem.
Besides the fact this is obviously a ploy for some stupid points boost on a corporate graph. This is sad, they are replacing the American Anthem with one that represents only a Race. I see this as no different than playing a song representing White pride in place of the American Anthem.
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