Why is the Black National Anthem Causing Such a Stir?
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- Why is the Black National Anthem Causing Such a Stir? Did you hear Andra Day's performance at The Super Bowl? Karen Hunter & Tyler Merritt discuss.
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They created this two-tier society and Black people said "Ok, we can do our own thing"... Now they are offended....😂😂😂
I agree with Karen it’s a hymn for US!!!
We don't need a fatherless national anthem
The people complaining it's divisive don't know the words of either anthem. The national anthem, the full version is divisive.
It bothers people because contrary to Ben Carson's belief, Black people were not immigrants and even though Nikki Haley and Tim Scott think that America was not a racist country, it, in fact, was, and is an extremely racist nation.
Our pearls are our pearls... we must treat them with care.
Go ahead and sing. Just dont be in your feelings when someone takes a knee for it.
IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
I think they would take offense to anything representing black empowerment.
Same
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You ain't lyin'!
Always!
Our song BLACK, is more connected to America the Beautiful!!!!!!
The same people who have an issue with the black anthem have never said anything about the confederate flag? If there should only be one song in solidarity then there should only be one flag!
Those lyrics could easily be applied to America as a whole
Why is the Black National Anthem causing such a stir?
Because anything that focuses exclusively on Black people angers and scares them folks.
They need to ask themselves why.
Yup. Even deeper, the song subtly and steongly alludes to us being the Israelites and is a plea to our people that when God brings us out of captivity that we don't forget these times and that we don't depart from God, returning to sin.
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How DARE we ruin the enjoyment of the nation's biggest sporting event by reminding them of the sins of their past...even though they expect the on-field descendants of the victims of those sins to stand for THEIR anthem!
right...
It shouldn't be sung at those games! That's our song!
It’s a public reminder of their atrocities against humanity.
Because the TRUTH hurts... 🤬
We've been neglecting or deferring our unfettered expression for too long.
Because it sheds light on our value, as children of God!!! No demonization in the song!!!
They always complain about Black folks and our culture being in the vicinity of sports accept never once have I heard them complain about the number of Black men on the field/court.
you better say that.
That song is not only a song of freedom for us, but a reminder to them of their atrocities and racism towards us. They want to bury all reminders of the past. We won’t let them!
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Preach!
She’s culturally appropriating an electronic microphone
Those atrociities started with Africans selling other blacks into slavery.
It's a hym you clown 😂
Because they are offended about everything black
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But will turn around and copy us in a hot second and act like they didn't
No offense to the brother, but I am so tired of the thinking that we have an obligation to plea for others to see us when they consciously choose not to. There is ample opportunity for anyone who really wants to learn and really wants to know to find out. No, we do not need to constantly perform and display all that is ourselves for others to "learn", and hope that they acknowledge our humanity. It's ok for any people, and yes for the black collective too, to just have something of ourselves for ourselves.
Yes!!
Sing it loud and proud. God bless 🙏🙏🙏 Beautiful
I sent the lyrics to a white friend of mine and we did a compare/contrast with the national athem, especially the 3rd verse.
He was anti black national athem before he saw the lyrics.
KAREN and GUEST: Listen, these Caucasians are offended not by the song, nor its lyrics, but they are offended by whom the song represents and for the people that it includes. Remember, DEI? They would rather listen to the 3rd verse of "O say can you see" and I say like Miss Sophia in the Color Purple...HELL NO! I can't see sizzle! LOL As a retired music educator, I think I've just about heard Caucasoids say a little bit of it all! Think of it this way, they're offended "FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!" Let that sit...
We share enough of ourselves. Some things we should honor enough to keep to ourselves.
Down by law should be the national anthem!
Oh my! I completely agree with Karen. It's ours. I don't give a good care what "other" folks think about it.
Who honestly cares what "Wentworth and Buffy" thinks!
Why must we always look for their approval!
I agree with you also Professor Hunter.
This is Our Song
White FRAGILITY on full display
Fragile? Over what? A song that's clearly meant to cause division between the races.
Fragile? Over what? A song that's clearly meant to cause division between the races.
@@pam7500 Like the division of the Star-Spangled Banner?
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave..."
Songs aren't dividing us. The Republican effort to gerry-mander the black populations political power out of exsistence is!
Right. America has always been divided. I think I heard Karen say in another episode that we have been in a cold war since the civil war. I'm a 35 year old white man working to understand my whiteness. Singing the Black national anthem is beautiful. There's nothing wrong. White people are just used to dominating the culture.
@@pam7500 🤨🤔 how is a song that has existed since Jim Crow causing division?
I agree. Our experiences are being commercialized. This is a betrayal of our cultural.
It’s a beautiful song
To hear the last verse of the Negro National Athem hits my very spirit ♥️ I felt the ancestors!!!!!! This is a conversation we need, and yes, we need to sing it loud and proud!
It's a black thing and we totally understand!!!
I haven’t sung it since I was in Elementary school. I don’t think this generation knows it.
They need to know it!
@@tnhankins1 My wife is a black genxer or older millennial, lol, I get confused...anyway, they had to learn it at her private school but junior high.
Come on Mrs. Karen? We built this country so why can't we express ourselves in public?😊
This
This is our song of history, it includes us, which the national anthem doesn't. I think at every opportunity it should be sung. And she sang it beautifully.
I don't think that's what she is saying. But why are we putting our stuff out to these people to get booed. I feel so bad for Andrea.
I Think It Was Done Beautifully!!!!
😊 🇺🇸 God Bless America
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The Sickness gets Sicker Daily! 😎
I'm 60 and I remember growing up in Newark NJ, we sung it every morning after reciting The Pledge of Allegiance. It strange the NFL has been having the Black National Anthem since 2020 and now it's a problem. I call it a BS rant by the right.
For too many Americans, including many elected officials & members on boards fained ignorance is bliss. It also goes back to not wanting to fully understand & experience American history which includes injustices done to Native Americans, Black Americans & Asian Americans.
And yet there's only a Black National Anthem. Not a Native American one, not a Chinese one. Haven't seen anyone pushing for either of those to happen. Why is that?
Karen, do you remember Jill Scott's version?
❤ thank you for sharing this! History is History. Too much history is suppressed or hidden from all. Please keep teaching all of us. I appreciate you
It's a song about encouragement and upliftment to a group of people that have been subjugated and enslaved and oppressed on the same soil that so many consider the free world, people booing only gives more awakening to how destructive and prevalent anti Black racism has been and still is.
I'm going to learn it and teach it to my little nephews. Very beautiful song
Yes it is!
Yes please do that, I play it for my kids every morning before we start homeschooling. They know how to sing it and if we go to an event and sing it they are loud with it!
Simply racism has never and will never go away, so so sad 😟 😢
This anthem is for us only and it is to unite us, not them.
Wonderful analysis. Love your enlightening. Thank you.
The full version of the Star Spangled Banner is hateful. Americans need to know their history.
Sadly, we will never be able to rationalize their performative offense to lift every voice and sing.
Francis Scott Key composed an anthem that could sum up today' gun-culture and hawkish tendencies. Some of the song' verses are racially vile. By contrast, James Weldon Johnson wrote an anthem that celebrates an enduring, resilient spirit. No mentions of bombs or rockets; instead we are encouraged to appreciate and enjoy our freedoms and humanity thru the awesome power of our American voices. This is a very different vibe. Its a more mature, humble celebration. Uplifting, positive, not war-based bragging. It makes maga mad, because it tells on them and "the dark past" they want to restore in America: that's that "again" part in maga...
It has nothing to do with being offended with the song. It's a beautiful song. It has to do with the united states national anthem is for every American not one group of Americans. Just like other countries have a national anthem to show pride in their country. Imagine if all of the different ethnic people in this country had an anthem that was sung before every sports game or like we used to at school after saying the pledge to allegiance. Imagine how long would that take?
I went to an NBA game Thursday. Nobody seems to have a problem with it. The young lady played with a saxophone. Most people were standing. But I know everyone wasn't happy. They want to take people of color from books but they can't take away our voice.
I have heard the hymn sung at several sporting events professional , college , etc and churches it was written 1899 not new release! Perhaps the uproar is because it was song at the Super Bowl with worldwide coverage & sung in conjunction with the anthems written prior to 1899
Also, calling it The Black National anthem triggers due to the a bit of Black history is being revealed via the words of the poem/ hymn.
@@reneetrotter4214but that’s not even the name of it tho. That’s the crazy part. That’s just what WE call it as a nickname. Lift every voice and sing is the name.
My Black grandma that’s 88 and was born in the south had tears began to form when that song began!! I had to grab a tissue 4 her to cope!
@@reneetrotter4214White Americans will not understand the pain that we’ve all experienced from their actions against us since we’ve been bunched up together like collard greens!!
Keep VOTING DEMOCRAT.... PLEASE.....im loving how the diversity is affecting our Hood.....
Chicago.....by 2025. Predominantly Hispanics.... Thanks Democrats. 😊
I absolutely think it should be there as well
Let us not forget that the Black National Anthem was a direct response to objections to Blacks singing the National Anthem. Those objections continue to this day. They want us to wallow in despair with our desirous noses plastered up against the window of exclusion. How dare we continue to thrive let alone outshine.
Oh, please. There have been many blacks to sing the national anthem. Get off your soap box.
This is not correct, with all due respect. It was not written in direct response to blacks singing the national anthem. It wasn't even a song, but a poem or more of a prayer, having lots of religious implications and cries about the mistreatment of the American Negro, and he had Dr. Washington and even President Lincoln in mind when he penned it. The NAACP adopted it and asked Johnson to write music for the freedom piece.
They are offended because it’s showing unity amongst Black people. And also because it’s pretty much establish for Black people. It’s the same thing plugging these people now that was plague in their family members before. Jealousy, envy and hate. Versus jealousy, and it turned into envy and then.
Anyone in their RIGHT mind would love the black national anthem. It speaks of freedom, liberation, and hope for tomorrow. Without the racists raising their heads and voices, you would think this song could speak to us all. Their anger, is an indication of their guilt (a hit dog, will cry out). Hopefully God, hears their protests, too...
Those who are complaining about LEV&S likely never listened to it nor do they care that it is a hymn, a prayer. The lyrics mean nothing to them. It's the Blackness. The same Blackness that is acceptable running, playing with a ball, dancing, singing or otherwise being athletic, entertaining or serving. Though acceptable for entertainment purposes, that Blackness is not supposed to have thoughts, feelings or needs; not ever welcomed to actually speak on them unless that speaking profits "the masters". This frantic clinging to whiteness dictates that the plantation model remains in full effect and is not violated. Without it, they don't know who they are or what to do. We are still treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. Many of their objections, suppositions and muddled dixieland-ish statements make no sense which leads us to their real sore spot - the Blackness!
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Well said.
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It was refreshing to hear your take on why we shouldn’t sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at sporting events.
They act like the original doesn't have a dark take😅
Mahomes doesn't identify as Black. He just doesn't.
he's Black. He just is.
What ? There's a 'black' national anthem ? To replace the Star Spangled Banner ?
I'm Not Standing for Shit If it's not For The Most High
I love it!!!!! ❤
Good morning, when are you going to restock your products? They are just mad because it's OUR SONG!!! Many don't want to see or hear anything that's going to uplift BLACK PEOPLE!!
next week. Shutdown the sight to re-code for better customer service and facilitating returns. New drop is coming end of the month. Stay tuned. And thank you!
Amen 🙏
@user-kg7ws1mn6q excuse me, but I'm not looking for a song to uplift me. The question is, Why do folks get pissed when it's sung?
IT IS OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. They will either destroy it like Tulsa or exploit it like our music.
@56Norman - Exactly! That’s exactly how I feel. The song is precious to me and to many of us. It means nothing to them. As with anything that is precious and dear to you, you should want to protect it; you don’t want just anybody handling it. Especially because - as you so correctly stated - others will only try to destroy or exploit it.
I continue to hope that one day we will be able to truly value that which comes from us without having to have it validated by white people. BTW, I feel the same way about Juneteenth, which I have been observing since back in the 90s. I didn’t need white people to know about it, approve of it, or anything else. Maybe one day we’ll learn - when we have something of value, it’s probably best that they _not_ know about it.
@@dinibell - I agree with you here.
It might be claimed by some blacks but, it isn't a national anthem!
From my understanding they started using the song during civil rights movement
It should be shared😀
I see your logic on this Karen. I can rock with your logic, if the event was put on by us, only !
Karen, Friends & Fans, I posted the following long comment on another YT channel where white folks were going off on the song, so like you, I gave them a sampling of the lyrics and some history.....
To all you people saying this song is divisive and racist, I say take a moment to read the words of the Star Spangled Banner, in particular the 3rd verse. You should also read the history of the author: "Key was a slave-owner with anti-abolitionist views, and in this verse he mentions slaves and their role in the battle - on both the American and British side."
African Americans have been singing this racist song all our lives.
And how about, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,
of thee I sing," which was written in 1832 and served as the first national anthem until 1930s when Star Spangled Banner replaced it. Blacks had no liberty in 1832.
In case you forgot, the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that all slaves are free occurred in 1863. The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was in 1865. However, another 100 years of unequal segregation, share cropping, mass imprisonment and chain gangs, and racist, demeaning, disenfranchising Jim Crow Laws, and years of uncivilized inhumane, evil reign of terror by KKK that included decades of lynching of thousands of mostly black men, but also black women and children-- all until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and the passing of the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Affirmative Action of the 1960s, just a mere 60 YEARS AGO.
YET, WE SANG YOUR RACIST SONGS THAT EXCLUDED US AND WE STILL SING YOUR SONGS--SO EXCUUUUUSE BLACK PEOPLE FOR WANTING A SONG THATS UPLIFTING AND REFLECTIVE OF OUR HOPE & FAITH FOR THE FUTURE.
Lift Every Voice and Sing was written around 1900 by James Weldon Johnson as a poem to commemorate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator. It was later set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson. Then around 1917 the NAACP started referring to it as the Negro National Anthem during the time the Great Migration began, 1915 - 1970. It is said to be the largest migration when thousands of African Americans fled the new slavery called share cropping and chain gangs, and the terror and lynching of the Jim Crow south to the North, Midwest and West filled with HOPE & FAITH:
"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."
You should Google it and read the lyrics. It is a beautiful song that gave us strength to carry on, and it later became known as the Black National Anthem.
Before you abuse, criticize and accuse, TRY to walk 400+ years in our shoes!!!!!!
Whether you know it, believe it, accept it or refute it--America's greatness is because of the free labor of African slaves who created the wealth that built the country, and MANY institutions and white people STILL benefit from it. And, our demands for change, and our demands for rights created a country that others flock to. We made the USA live up to it's beliefs and values it espoused for hundreds of years, "We the people...." and ALL the immigrants, Asians, Hispanic, Indians, European, Africans, Caribbeans, benefit from the USA enslaved and emancipated black's fight and our wins.
"Facing the rising sun
of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won."
Thank you ❤
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Awesome...I love this...preach❤
In Canada our song has changed to "home on native land".....
In America, nothing has or will change. This anthem was written in the early 20th century as a cry for acceptance in America during Jim Crow. They didn't sing this instead of the nat'l anthem of the country that they were 2nd class citizens in, but rather as their rallying cry for freedom, justice, and hope that things will change. You can easily look up the lyrics--it was adopted by the NAACP as a poem and music was written for it. Blacks were fighting and helping America win their wars and coming home to their south and getting lynched. This song addressed their disappointment. Just go read the poem.
University of Nebraska in Lincoln had someone sing the Black national anthem and the local news was asking attendees what thought about it. Shock to them everyone was ok with as long both anthems were sung and they were curious about the Black National Anthem 😊Just like the Superbowl the media was trying to be a mess stared😒
Yeah, you made that up
Thanks for the black national anthem , i wont be back to this post,
I missed the opening; however, as your guest said, "IT LANDS IN US DIFFERENTLY" and I felt that Brother when you said it.
They wouldn’t have an issue if it wasn’t called “The Black” National Anthem
They're the same folks who complain about political correctness and the cancel culture, theyre phony and they're hypocritical in so many ways
Many hate us and anything that is exclusively ours. The beauty of that song is that the writers sprinkled it with references to show that we are Israel and it honestly is the perfect song for our people and our currnet plight.
Yall notices how the NFL announcers presented the Song to the national audience! THEY WANT CALLED IT THE BLACK NATIONAL ATHEM THEY CALL IT A PRESENTATION!
Lift every voice and sing,
'Til 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 'til 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 died.
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,
'Til 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.
Thank You
That’s honestly beautiful and honestly a bit less war mongery than the American National Anthem. I mean it was written during a siege, or more at the end of it. I mean it seems to almost romanticize war in the lyrics “the rockets red Glare, the bombs bursting in air”. As far as I’m aware it was only written because the flag was still flying at the end of the siege.
They should have let Jill Scott sing her version.
Oh yes! They would have lost it completely.
I bet they would crap in their panties
Her a song is fire!
Their heads would have exploded!😂🤯
Yes indeed!!!! But y’all know they’re mad at her!
Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song from the civil rights era. But now that we as black people have equal rights what's the point of a national black anthem?
do Black people have equal rights?
As a Caucasian man, I don't personally know of anyone who finds the song offensive. The song itself is fine. The issue is, why would or should there be a second national anthem? Using that line of reasoning, we should have a national anthem for each ethnic and/or racial group in America.
Love the song. Embrace the song. But it's NOT a national anthem.
Since "Nation" is the focus. The citizens of the country, of course, have multiple cultural dynamics, yet citizens are nationalized. I vote for one anthem. Otherwise, to be inclusive, every ethnicity needs to publish a song. 🎵 🎶
Professor Hunter I attended Brooklyn Junior Academy and I was taught Lift Every Voice before the Star Spangled Banner. I am grateful for the education and knowledge I received. Thank you BJA!!!!
2:10 agreed for the same reason! Was just telling my husband my feeling about this. I don't want our stuff out here for these people to ignorantly crap on.
It is what the song represents that has some folks so Shook Up ....
And the fact that it is for black People exclusively and they (white racist folks) can't relate and therefore can't understand...
But the song (National Anthem) that represents them is the song they want to represent everybody, but wasn't meant for everybody..
Not to mention the third verse that they don't sing ..😳
It's like them telling black folks to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and when we do and prosper in the process they can't take it ...
Instead of just letting us be and let us live our lives,
through jealousy,
you want to come in and kill us and burn our shit up..
But for some strange reason have an issue when we we protest and some shit my catch fire...
Well actually, the NAACP adopted it for the beauty of the words being written in a manner that other oppressed peoples could identify and they have, as many cultures around the world perform the song. And with the NAACP being an interracial organization speaking out for all 'colored' peoples, it wasn't considered "exclusively" for black people only.
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Maybe. But the song was excluively written for black people. There's likely a big reason none of the other stanzas seem to get performed. They have biblical references designed with the intent to show that blacks are the Israelites. The song is written about our coming exodus from captivity, the "chastening rod" of slavery, and a plea to not return to sin that we won't depart from God again when we return to Zion.
That song in it's entirety is not meant for everyone regardless of what the NAACP may use it for.
So if every ethnic group in this country wrote and sung a song that they call their national anthem what would you think about that? Would you stand for all of them? Or would you be what you call people racist for not standing?
@@jamesj3352 ... I don't call other people racist for not acknowledging the
Black National Anthem, they have that right ...
I thought this country was built and stood for the rights to be free and live the way you wanted..
I call racist to those that won't allow people to live free in this country and try to make others conform to their way of thinking...
For example I have the right not to stand for the national anthem and hold my hand over my heart if that's what I want to do, but to others that would be looked down upon, look at all the hell Kaepernick took just for kneeling..
But by the same token if others wanted to call me racist for not standing for the national anthem that's their right as well ...
So if every ethnic group wanted their own national anthem they would have that right living in "free" America ...
But if you want people to respect you and your ways then you have to also in return give that respect..
@@dwayneparrett7133 so explain to me how the national anthem don't represent everyone? When it's about the people that sacrificed their lives for this country. And that includes all races that were lost protecting this country.
While I get and do understand both of your points of view I'm kind of with professor Hunter on this one. It still feels a bit like pandering when we lease our sacred institutions to these public spaces for spectacle.
I learned this song as a little boy. At church in Harlem I remember hearing my mother play the piano. And sing this song. I went to church on Lenox Ave in Harlem. Williams Institutional Church.
There’s a black rapper who quizzes people about the Bible, posted a response about LEF&S he has a problem with it. I guess he didn’t listen too well.
I dont usually Disagree with Karen, but this time I do. This was very prevalent for us at our HBCU...Nofolk State. We had to learn it if we didnt know it already. It was needed and should continue
did I say we didn't need the Black National anthem? Or...did I say it was OURS and shouldn't be sung at the Super Bowl and other non Black spaces? (I think I said the latter).
It Threatens their existences. We singing our song appeals to our ancestors and the experiences we indured. Their songs appeals to their Ancestors , by us not Hailing their lineage and spirits were breaking or have broken their spell.
Our... national anthem....also states.... Where free men shall stand....
2nd or 3rd versus....
Absolutely
He is not black, he considers himself Biracial only.
Actually it was a poem first -- created for James Weldon Johnson's students - he was a principal/teacher at a school in Jacksonville, FL -- 500 recited it in 1900 at an assembly. Theme of the poem dealt with the struggles that Blacks had during the Reconstruction period - since Exodus is the basis of liberation theology, no doubt that entered the equation. Didn't become a Hymn until John Rosamond Johnson composed the music for the words. That happened after they both moved to New York. In 1917 the NAACP started promoting the song as the Negro National Anthem.
If this country wasn't so full of hatred, I'd say sing what makes you feel good. I think someone should write a new song for the times we are living in so the haters can sing that. This country isn't elevated to a level to sing a song about hope. Stop giving this country our best and see what happens.
Because some hate everything about us!
They're reacting according to the Hermès Principle of Polarity...When the light exclusively SHINES on us, they'll always feel compelled to throw SHADE...
I agree 💯Dr. Hunter.
Why waste this glorious song on audiences that choose not to appreciate it. We don’t need their understanding or approval to give this anthem importance. This was a compromise with the NFL so they did not have to give our players and couches their due.
I couldn't agree with you more..
On Feb. 12, 1900, the students of the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla., where James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)-the poet and novelist who would go on to become the executive secretary of the NAACP-was the principal, gave the first ever performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the song that would become known as the Black national anthem, as part of a celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Charles Henry Alston (1907-1977), artist, ‘James Weldon Johnson-Author, Diplomat, Public Servant,’ National Archives at College Park.
“My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercise,” Johnson wrote in 1935.
“I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us, and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored schoolchildren.
“Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it, they went off to other schools and sang it, and they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country. Today, the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used.
“The lines of this song repay me in an elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children.”
As Johnson intimates, the song quickly spread after its original performance. It was endorsed by Booker T. Washington in 1905 and became the official song of the NAACP in 1919. Since then, it has remained a beloved cultural touchstone, sung in schools, stadiums, and churches across the country, and performed by everyone from Kim Weston to Gladys Knight to Beyoncé.
“What are we to do with the ugliness that comes with loving a country with soil rich from the bloodshed of those who shoulder the trauma of its creation-from the pillaging of the land to the enslaved bodies that toiled atop it?” wrote Gerrick Kennedy in Didn’t We Almost Have It All. “The answer for Black people was to make their own anthem, and that’s why for the last century ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ has been our rallying cry for liberation and a lasting symbol of Black pride.”
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.
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Thank you!
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🟪🟩🟧REPUBLICANS ARE THE KKK PARTY
🟩🟩🟧Decent Republicans, are frustrated
and embarrassed, with their Party’s 60 year long association with the racist KKK.
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🟪🟩In 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, signed the historic Civil Rights Bill. The bill integrated facilities for everyone: (restaurants, water fountains, hotels, bars, public hospitals, theaters, front seating on public buses, public schools, libraries, public restrooms, taxi cabs,
front seating on passenger trains, public swimming pools, front seating in courtrooms, housing, medical care, employment, public colleges, parks and even public cemeteries and sections of prisons, believe it or not!
Blacks traveling on Greyhound and other bus services, were forced by law, to take rear seats when crossing over from Northern to Southern states, prior to the passage of the 1964 Civil Right Bill.
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✅✅ Until the late 1950s, black department
store shoppers in many parts the south, were forbidden from entering dressing rooms to try on pieces of clothing, for fit. Before that, the rule was: buy as is, with no returns or exchanges, for people of color.
🟧 Jewish stores were more accommodating.
Up until the 1960’s, the few black police 👮 👮♀️
officers in the racist south, were taunted and abused and they were not allowed to make arrest of whites, they could only call white officers for them to possibly make arrests.
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🟩🟧 Because of continuing Republican racism, nearly 90% of black Americans 🇺🇸 have voted Democratic for more than a half century. Jews, Catholics, Latinos, American Indians, college educated, advanced college educated, organized labor, youth and college voters, LBGT, and working class Americans, all vote heavily for Democrats.
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🟧🟪🟩A study by Gallup research, found that women with college degrees, are more likely to identify as Democrats.
Women with advanced college degrees, are even more likely to identify as Democrats.
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🟧🟪 The Republican Party Issued A Formal Apology To Black Americans in 2005, for the many years of Playing The Race Card. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehnman, issued a formal apology to Black Americans via the NAACP. The apology was given for the many years that the Republican Party engaged in race-baiting and other racial tricks in order to win elections. A Harvard educated attorney, Mehlman traveled to the NAACP’s Convention in Milwaukee, to deliver his message. Among other things, he promised a friendlier relationship between his party and black Americans. But, other Republican officials were not pleased that their party had issued an apology to black people. Chairman Mehlman was soon let go of his position and Republican Party racism against blacks continued.
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🟪🟧 Ronald Reagan and Racist Republicans, Fought Like Hell To Deny A Fellow Republican, The Reverend Martin Luther King, A National Holiday
Republican President Ronald Reagan and longtime racist Republican Senator Jesse
of of North Carolina, both argued against the passage of a MLK national holiday bill.
Senator Helms was especially vicious in his actions, he created a fake 300-page document, in which he accused the Reverend King of being a Marxist and a Communist.
New York Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, declared the document to be, “a packet of fifth.” He then threw it to the floor of the Senate and stomped on it.
The MLK holiday bill, soon had the growing support of Americans.
But, in a last attempt to support racist Senator Helms accusations, Reagan falsely hinted again, that the Reverend King, whose family were ‘legacy Abraham Lincoln Republicans,’ may have had Communist ties.
The veto-proof bill eventually passed and President Reagan signed it.
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✅✅ THEY ARE AMERICAN HEROES...🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Reverend Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He and the Reverend Jessie Jackson, were shot at once and beaten twice while marching in the racist conservative South, for civil rights.
🟪🟪 The Rev.Jessie Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in a White House Ceremony in 2,000. It was hosted by President Bill Clinton, in recognition of Rev. Jackson’s many years of fighting for racial social justice in America. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🟧🟧Rev. Al Sharpton, marched in the racist South for 25 years, with Jewish Rabbis, liberal college students and others, to fight against
Southern racism.
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🟪🟩🟧According Presidential Historians, Barack Obama, is the 12th ranked President ever and Donald Trump is ranked at only number 42.
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🟪🟪 VIDEO LEAKED OF REPUBLICAN
GROUP BRAGGING ABOUT WRITING VOTER SUPPRESSION BILLS
May 13, 2021 Democracy Docket
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The dark money group Heritage Action, associated with the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, was caught on a leaked video bragging about their role in writing the series of voter suppression bills that have passed in states across the court over the last few months. The video was recorded at a private meeting with high dollar donors in April, and published by Mother Jones.
In the video, Heritage Action executive director Jessica Anderson brags about the group’s work to “quickly and quietly” get voter suppression legislation passed in key swing states, as part of the group and the GOP’s promotion of the Big Lie and continuing efforts to limit ballot access after Donald Trump’s loss. Heritage Action’s work, according to Anderson, includes recommending provisions to be included in legislation, providing state legislators with information and language to help draft proposals, and sometimes even writing the bills themselves before feeding them to local representatives. In other cases, “we have a sentinel, on our behalf, give [the legislators] the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from the bottom-up type of vibe,” Anderson said on video.
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🟪🟪 TILL THE 1960’s, TEXAS CONSERVATIVES FORCED BLACKS AND LATINOS TO TAKE LITERACY TEST TO BE ABLE TO VOTE
Blacks and Latinos attempting to vote, often were told by election officials that they had gotten the date, time or polling place wrong, that they possessed insufficient literacy skills or that they had filled out an application incorrectly. Black people, whose population suffered a high rate of illiteracy due to centuries of oppression and poverty, often would be forced to take literacy tests, which they sometimes failed.
Voting officials, primarily in Southern states, had been known to force Black voters to “recite the entire Constitution or explain the most complex provisions of state laws,” a task most white voters would have been hard pressed to accomplish. In some cases, even Black people with college degrees were turned away from the polls.
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🟧🟩 White America Built Their Wealth On Welfare
🟧🟩How Decades Of Welfare Policies Lifted
Up The White Middle Class And Largely Excluded Black Americans
WELFARE IS AVAILABLE IN 34 COUNTRIES.
Far more white people have benefited from US welfare programs over the years, while black people and other people of color have been denied them in various ways, multiple historians and researchers tell Business Insider.
The coronavirus pandemic exposed the underbelly of American inequality in many ways, with people of color disproportionately likely to be laid off, and to be on the financial brink.
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🟢🟢 Just how awful of a scoundrel do you have to be, in order to get kicked out of two funerals?⚰️ ⚰️
A person could live 10 lifetimes and not know of anyone to be kicked out of a funeral, yet,
Donald Trump has been kicked out of two:
Barbara Bush's and John McCain’s.
They told Donald Trump that, a three-legged, one-eyed, parasitic, malnourished, wet, stinky, toothless, mangy, arthritic, flea infested, homeless dog, 🐕 living in a dingy dirty alley, with mouth tumors, ankle spurs, dog syphilis, tick bite paralysis, Ebola disease, and drenched in self urine, would absolutely be more welcome, than the ex-Prez.
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You’re welcome!☺️