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Denver shocked as singer opts for 'Black National Anthem' over 'Star-Spangled Banner'

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Can't say I'm in favor of this. The National Anthem is for ALL Americans, isn't it? Just curious what anyone thought.
JohnA

70 responses // Denver shocked as singer opts for 'Black National Anthem' over 'Star-Spangled Banner'

  • I hope her point is well taken.
    radiovolume
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  • BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM????

    Are people blind to the fact that racisim is kept alive by acts exactlly like this. if we as a people continue to make a point of referring to things as specifically black or white oriented than all we are doing is adding distance to the race divison.
    if a white person had sung the lyrics to the confederate national anthem their would have been a massive public outcry all the way up to al sharpton and jesse jackson. it ridiculous,,,if you are asked , and agree, to sing the national anthem then sing it don't use that moment for your own personal reason. so can have her 15minutes too bad it's for something that brings more negative attention to race relations.
    bigstretch
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  • what was her point?????
    bigstretch
    1 response to this
  • I remember the hubabaloo when Steven Tyler just added, the home of the Indy 500, while singing for the event. People are sensitive of what they view as tampering with national symbols. The flag, the national anthem, national holidays such as the 4th of july, and national monuments. I don't think that reverence is misplaced but I wish more of it were atached to the actual constitution and founding principles of the nation as well.
    ocanada
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  • She's a racist. There's no way around this one.
    J_Jammer
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  • I guess I get what she's trying to do. Now that I've read the article and given it more thought, I would guess that she's trying to say that she no longer feels like a black woman who happens to be in America, she feels like an American who is black. So, in merging the two songs, she's showing that her black America is now a welcomed part of mainstream America and she's expressing how she feels about it. Once, again, I'm just guessing.

    I don't agree with her approach, but that's the most sense I can make out of this.

    And contrary to what some people think, racism is going to be here whether or not we (or any other minority group) create songs, networks, or whatever to cater to us. What we do, in that sense, has no bearing on what people choose to think of us.
    Nyx
    • Nyx
    • 3 months ago
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  • Two things, 1st - I've been black for quite some time now and I wasn't aware we had our own national anthem. I must have skipped that weekly world dominance / overthrow whitey meeting. 2nd and of most importance, this is a FOX NEWS story! You know the same photo doctoring, terrorist fist bumping, blacks use forks and napkins just like the rest disinformation - discrimination organization.

    Where some questionable stories should be taken with a grain of sodium. Fox News stories should be taken with the BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS.
    eldamon
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  • The national anthem is not a white song is it? It seems the song she sang was a black song?

    Not a good choice, especially since it was a surprise to everyone.
    shadowtrekker
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  • the focus of the story is that she was supposed to sing the national anthem and she surprised everyone by singing the black anthem, so the question should be .... what was her point?
    shadowtrekker
  • The “Black National Anthem” was never created to be a song of superiority over any other race. Rather it was created to counter the history of self-hatred imposed on the black race. It was created to unify blacks back when racism had a much stronger presence than it has today. I don’t think Marie meant to sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (originally a poem by Harlem Renaissance writer and activist James Weldon Johnson) to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner in an attempt to “replace” the national anthem, as Brown asserts. I think Brown is assuming that Marie is suggesting that Black America is superior to the United States of America. That it takes precedence over “normal” America.

    I think the reality is that she, like everyone, has a personal relationship with her Nation. And just like gays, and perhaps Jews, or Latinos, or other marginalized cultures, Marie cannot help but think of that relationship as anything else but that of a black woman in America.

    African-American history is American history. This was not an act of racism. The concept of the confederacy, however, does connote racism. So I believe if a white person had sung the Confederate National Anthem, it would be a wholly different act, and therefore should be received very differently.
    Thejordans
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  • So.

    What's your point?

    I LOVE Lift Every Voice and Sing!

    There is no concensus that this anthem is the "Black National Anthem." However, it is an anthem commonly sung in this Nation. Unless she was contracted to sing the Star Bangled Banner, she was not out of bounds to sing any of this Nation's anthems.

    Now, remove your hats, put your hand over your hearts, and "Sing a song rife with the lessons our dark past has taught us......" After all, slaves, the genocidal victims of imperialistic native slaughter, the survivors of Jim Crow domestic terrorism, and the descendents of interned Japanese Americans are not the only intended students who should still be embattled and embittered by the dark and dastardly history of America's terroristic past.

    What you frightened occidental European beneficiaries of the conquests and terrorism of the Americas are never going to enjoy is forgiveness and redemption of your parents crimes on your own terms. The beneficiaries always wind up accountable to the descendents of their ancestor's victims at some point in the history of every empirical act of hegemonic colonialism. Just ask the Empire of Great Britain, the Empire of Japan, or the Empire of Holy Rome.
    96thdayofrage
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  • Come on people, we are smarter than this. Don't get caught up in a salacious title. National anthem - the song the defines and represents a "nation". Where is Black Nation, when was it created and when did it adopt this particular song as it's anthem?

    She may or may not have made a poor choice of songs for this particular event. If THE national anthem is expected it probably should be performed or at least performed before any other song is sung.
    eldamon
  • what are the lyrics to the song?
    iOw
    • iOw
    • 3 months ago
  • Shes racist, there is no arguement about it. As long as specific colored organizations exist, so will racism.
    dmass5
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  • bottom line is that the song is not the national anthem which she was supposed to sing. i doubt she wants blacks to rise up and kill whitey.

    and i0w:

    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 hast brought us thus far on the way;
    Thou Who hast 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.

    *this song has never been for me because of the word god in it but i never remember it saying god that much.
    donkeyfly69
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  • Yeah, aside from the God bit, the actual lyrics of the song ring very true about this sweet lil country of ours. Granted, if it's widely seen as a black power thing then that's outright racism on her part. She was also hired to sing the national anthem which means she, technically, should have (although I'm a big fan of intelligent rebellion). I dont know, hands firmly tossed.
    iOw
    • iOw
    • 3 months ago
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  • I have to admit that I find this ridiculous and she deserves the backlash she receives.
    udosean
  • "So what is more important, for one to be treated as an equal member of society, or to be able to maintain one's sence of entitlement due from victimhood. Or is it just whichever is more convient at the moment."

    You can afford to ask something that offensively ridiculous, only because you are the lily white male beneficiary of everything that has brought so many so much pain. You really ought to enjoy that while the Occidental AmeriKan Empire is yet standing. After all, that's your privilege and, right now, your prerogative, white JohnA.
    96thdayofrage
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  • Go ahead, sing a Black Anthem, and drive America into the morass of hatred and murder that Africa is cursed with due to ethnic conflicts. In Nigeria the Igbos hate the Yorubas, the Yorubas hate the Igbos, evryone hates the Fulanis, and then we have the Ijaws, the Cross River people, and of course the Akwa Ibo people cannot be trusted. America represent a chance for us all to leave these tribal prejudices behind. Rise up and grasp the opportunity offered. Or remain, mired in your past! Protesting injustice is admirable. Making a mockery of a country trying to achieve unity and greatness is not.
    MoonLoon
  • Does anyone know what the Asian national anthem is? I'm also curious as to what the Unemployed, Middle-Aged Technical Support Technician National Anthem is.

    I vote for 'Guerilla Radio'.
    necrotized
  • JohnA and MoonLoon, I'm confused as to why the Black National Anthem is thought to be racist. Or maybe I'm assuming that's what you're saying, when you say that singing the Confederate National Anthem is just as disdainful as the Black National Anthem.

    The Black National Anthem was never about exclusion of any race. Unity of the black race is not at all about the exclusion of whites. The Black National Anthem was always about positivity, and seeking equality.

    I honestly don't know why the Black National Anthem is so offensive to people. What is this message being conveyed to non-blacks that I am not picking up on?
    Thejordans
  • yes there is a BLACK national anthem i know its hard for some pple to digest....so...save your paranoia.....I used to sing that in my church for years..Does that make my whole congregation and myself racist for singing a black american unity song? hilarious to think of such a thing... I will say... she shouldnt have sang it then...yet i still do not see this as an Issue...but to thinks its code for "kill whitey" ..is ridiculous!
    lulu81
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  • This is why I am starting to hate black people.
    brocker
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