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The black national anthem is devisive. amirite?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Wtf is the black national anthem
by Anonymous8 months ago
Wtf is devisive?
by Commercial-Story-9728 months ago
That means things are "device-like",… maybe..?? :)
by hadley218 months ago
How stupid people spell "divisive"
by Efficient_Eagle_62798 months ago
No becuz it doesnt matter
by Anonymous8 months ago
I still do🙋
by Anonymous8 months ago
"It'S n0t A eNgLiSh PaPeR!!1!1!" No, but I still have to read it and it should still make sense.
by Anonymous8 months ago
What if they just believe that's how it's spelled? I'm not going to spell check every single word that I type, just in case I've been misspelling the as Zimplogulon
by Anonymous8 months ago
I'm sorry, what is the black national anthem? Not from the US so I've never heard about it before
by Anonymous8 months ago
Yeah I just found out about it through socials, I was watching the Super Bowl last night and it wasn't even shown on the channel I was watching. Just the US Anthem
by roobyazmin8 months ago
The song was performed for the first time in 1900, not long after it was written. The NAACP dubbed "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the Black national anthem in 1919, more than a decade before "The Star Spangled Banner" was named the national anthem
by Anonymous8 months ago
List a single lyric in the song that mentions race
by Available-Aide-34498 months ago
The title.
by Anonymous8 months ago
The title is "Lift Every Voice and Sing", don't see how that's racial
by Available-Aide-34498 months ago
Why did you lie like that unprompted
by Strong_Aside94398 months ago
Lift Every Voice And Sing Where race?
by Anonymous8 months ago
I refuse to listen to it. Go away
by Anonymous8 months ago
I refuse to listen to the national anthem. Get all propaganda out of sports
by DowntownRegister8 months ago
And yet you still speak on it, explains a lot
by Available-Aide-34498 months ago
only for black people Good for them
by Unakuhn8 months ago
I'm black and I have to admit, I must have missed the memo on Lift Every Voice becoming our separate national anthem.
by Smart_Cartoonist8 months ago
I'm tired of people forgetting to fill me in on these things. I never find out about it until drama starts.😭
by Anonymous8 months ago
It was written by the NAACP leader in 1900 and promoted by the NAACP as the Black national anthem since 1917.
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's because they are a divisive organization and not an advancement organization.
by MaleficentPositive768 months ago
I'm curious where you grew up. I'm black and they always sung it at graduations and important events. I'm honestly surprised this Super Bowl is the first time ppl have heard of it. Some of us really are living in different Americas, I guess
by Anonymous8 months ago
I grew up in Queens NY and we sung it at church and events. No one called it a black national anthem ever. Not church, not school. Is there some other meaning behind joyful joyful too?
by Smart_Cartoonist8 months ago
Is where we join to ask what is going on? I'm lost lmao
by Anonymous8 months ago
I don't even watch the game but that just sounds so dumb. Why would we want a national anthem for just a race?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Waltzing Matilda isn't the Australian national anthem?!
by Marta118 months ago
Not officially!
by Wild_Advice_12148 months ago
Did they even call it by that nickname at the Superbowl? Or is it just another manufactured controversy the right-wing media made up to sow division in an election year?
by Anonymous8 months ago
which is something they do every year What did they do in previous years?
by Anonymous8 months ago
America the Beautiful, which I think they still played this year and last year too.
by kemmerashly8 months ago
Sing another song than the national anthem. They have a halftime show with music like every time.
by Wild_Advice_12148 months ago
Why would we want a national anthem for just a race? You do know it's not an official thing right? Maybe if you are an 80 year old black person there's a pretty good chance that the Star Spangled Banner makes you want to puke. And on the flip side, there's a song your people loved so much that it became your unofficial national anthem. And not like last year. For generations. What's the problem with that?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Much agreed. I'm Asian, and I see it as against all common sense that there is a so-called black national anthem. We have one national anthem. Pandering to specific minority groups doesn't help anything, and it sure as heck doesn't bring people together. Where is our Asian American national anthem? Or the Mexican-American National Anthem for my wife?
by Anonymous8 months ago
My 13-year-old son heard that song the other day for the first time. He said it's an ass song. He was completely correct.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Come on bro you know this. The Mexican American National anthem is "Living la Vida Loca"
by Public-Interview8 months ago
When did it replace "La Bamba"?
by mantekristian8 months ago
Ricky Martin is Puerto Rican
by Anonymous8 months ago
Asians and Hispanics haven't experienced enough repression in the U.S. to get their own song. Wait your turn! /s
by Anonymous8 months ago
those millionaires are the only color that matters in this world. Green.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Sure, then those millionaires should play and not black people. It seems like anytime black people are mentioned people Hitler particles instantly activates.
by Anonymous8 months ago
wait.. they are only 13% of the population.. Need to get reverend Sharpton in there and fix this immediately.
by Anonymous8 months ago
We stand for the national anthem This always kills me, when all the kneeling stuff was in full effect, my Uncle used to rail about it all the time, so every time we'd be together and watch a NFL game together, and they'd do the anthem, I'd ask why he was sitting for it, apparently it only counts if you hear it in person.
by vhuel8 months ago
Divide and conquer….. what do you expect??
by Alone_Carpenter8 months ago
He's also imposing a name that was coopted by people who want to "other" the song rather than embrace its message.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Did you hear them say that one time during the Super Bowl? Or did the call it something else? Like the title of the song!
by elouise598 months ago
Yeah, it seems pretty ironic to me. Undermining what people have been fighting for for 60 years and separating black people seems very counterproductive.
by Anonymous8 months ago
This opinion is not that unpopular.
by Creepy_Ad8 months ago
Blame Roger Gooddell. This was his idea for appeasement after the George Floyd riots. The players union was like 'Um... whatever'. Nobody wants to be the one to remove it now, so there it is.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Oh no, they sang a song at the super bowl... ? Look I get it, some people are threatened anytime something involves black people, like two guys at my work who get their panties all scrunched up over this. But they're stupid babies so they don't matter.
by Anonymous8 months ago
When did we start pretending Lift Every Voice, a song taught to literally everyone over a certain age in elementary school music class, is the "black national anthem?" I grew up in a mostly black neighborhood and I've never heard of this until, what, a year ago.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I had never heard about it referred that way either until my friend's racist cop husband came over to watch the Superbowl yesterday and scowled at it.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I've always wondered what it's like living under a rock
by Anonymous8 months ago
a song taught to literally everyone over a certain age in elementary school music class, You got a source for that? Because I had never heard of it until the last year or two when everyone started talking about it as the black national anthem.
by Deep-Telephone-72508 months ago
They don't teach a lot of things about black people in school. Your lack of education doesn't change the reality of the world
by Anonymous8 months ago
Brown person checking in, agreed.
by Anonymous8 months ago
It still is though, check the rules. You fit in just nice
by Unakuhn8 months ago
Too late, already checked the rules, place doesn't apply to me. It applies to those pretending to be something they're not.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Divisive*
by Theajacobs8 months ago
🤷♂️
by Anonymous8 months ago
If it's so important, why do they only play it at the Super Bowl? Why not play it before every NFL game? Oh, right, because it's just performative.
by Michel828 months ago
It was no problem until maga chuds got all snowflake about it.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I find your spelling divisive
by pierce918 months ago
If you are a Black person who is a US citizen you are on team America and the Star Spangled Banner is your anthem. People identifing with their race/culture/ethnicity first and not with their nationality, is how countries fall apart. United we stand, divided we fall.
by Anonymous8 months ago
That issue could be solved by not performing either. It's a football game, not a preparation for war. There's no need to push this patriotism onto people anymore at this day and age when we are there for entertainment
by Prestigious-Zone8 months ago
There was a time when we could set aside our differences and unite under the fact that, no matter how much we disagreed on, we at least all shared our nation. The symbols of the nation represent each of us. If you don't like it, you can work to make it better. The anthem and the flag are unique to us. If we can't AT LEAST have that in common, then nothing else will unite us. And we are a divided nation beyond repair.
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's a national game that brings the country together, why wouldn't you sing the national anthem? It isn't reserved for war, it's a celebration of the nation
by Altruistic-You8 months ago
It's unnecessary to inject patriotism into a domestic sporting event
by Anonymous8 months ago
Why? The sporting event is on a national level. It's about bringing the country together. Why would you think celebrating the country you live in is only necessary when you're "versus" another country?
by Altruistic-You8 months ago
It's a sports match, not about bringing the country together. Not everything has to have America injected into it
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's an American sport with all American teams and heavily American ads. I don't think "injecting America into it" is applicable here. It's like saying you added water to water
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's patriotism for patriotism's sake. I love America but I don't need ostentatious displays of it. This is a hill I'm willing to die on but I understand if people expect more displays of patriotism during sporting events because it's all many people have known.
by Anonymous8 months ago
A sports match played by who? Who can compete in this sports match? It's not about "injecting America". I'd say the same for any sporting competition played at the national level in any nation
by Altruistic-You8 months ago
Anyone can play football from across the globe. It's not limited to Americans. I think the only sporting events where national anthems should be played are where countries face off against each other, like at the Olympics. Not many other countries have their national anthem played for domestic league matches. I think it's an unnecessary tradition.
by Anonymous8 months ago
As a foreigner, I enjoyed the national anthems at American sporting events. In finals of local sport competitions we also sing the anthem. It unites. Which is the issue - y'all want to divide.
by Anonymous8 months ago
In Scandinavia and Europe we are being prepped for another world war, patriotism is seen as needed again maybe? I think America usually get the world war update a few years behind us Europeans test it in early access?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Really? You are? I've seen a few things, but can you tell me what's going on with that?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Failure to adequately patriotize a culture will ensure it's demise, Comrade. The death of America or Ukraine or Palestin or Fernando Poo are existentially real possibilities. Borders and treaties are whispers across historical context.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I asked my Mexican in-laws where their anthem was.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I think it is divisive to people who are offended by the consideration that the meaning of all patriotic american symbolism is not sacred and has to be monitored for disrespect Its not meant to be divisive at all. In the spirit of our american pastime, give these fellow americans the benefit of the doubt and join in and try to understand where it comes from and what it means rather than what makes you feel left out about it.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Did they play this last night? Nationally televised? If so, I missed it. Seems like a dumb idea tbh.
by Baumbachgabe8 months ago
Bringing back segregation in the name of "quality".. lol. So dumb
by sherwooddickins8 months ago
What are you talking about?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Ah yes, lift every voice and sing - so devisive [sic]
by Known-Double89538 months ago
Every life matters
by RelationRecent8 months ago
lol I want op to list the lyrics and give a play by play on how each line is divisive. lol
by Anonymous8 months ago
The fact that it's a separate one to the regular anthem.
by osborne928 months ago
"regular"
by Known-Double89538 months ago
The Regular National Anthem 🇺🇸
by Anonymous8 months ago
Actually, the parts that are supposed to be offensive we don't sing.
by Creepy_Ad8 months ago
The fact that it exists to contrast itself from the actual national anthem is the divisive aspect…
by BarracudaWeary20628 months ago
Lol
by Anonymous8 months ago
Having anything separate is by definition divisive?
by Anonymous8 months ago
OP isn't saying that the song is itself lyrically divisive. He's saying the existence of a separate ‘black' national anthem is by its nature is divisive. I completely agree. I'm from the UK so I don't really have a dog in the fight, but I hate our national anthem. I hate the monarchy and I'm from a city that boos it whenever it's played at sporting events (Liverpool). I somewhat understand why African Americans would not feel represented by the US national anthem, but having a second one is only going to cause more issues for your already extremely divided country. The whole concept of national identity itself is divisive anyway, and is going to become more and more redundant as time goes on and the world becomes more and more connected. Do what we do in Liverpool; forget about jingoistic nonsense and boo the US anthem.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Exactly.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I suppose it's ableist against the mute community. But I don't hear them complaining about it.
by Known-Double89538 months ago
If you're looking around, looking for the feedback of the mob, waiting to see if it's ok to laugh at this joke. Yes. It is.
by Anonymous8 months ago
So we should have another national anthem for another group? You know that's why the civil war was fought right? The one where 600k+ mostly non-black people died to make sure the US was "for all of us"?
by Patient-Tea2198 months ago
Wow 600k vs millions and 400 years of slavery. How stunning and brave
by DowntownRegister8 months ago
So we should change the national anthem because the current one sucks nuts
by Agile-Comedian34468 months ago
This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
by Agile-Comedian34468 months ago
A truly American song by a truly American patriot.
by Agile-Comedian34468 months ago
Perfect
by Cold-Analysis8 months ago
There is a better option already with America the Beautiful.
by ebonypfeffer8 months ago
Well, technically, the current one wasn't written with the intention of being one, and most countries had theirs written specifically for that, so it would.make sense to write one, but the US likes to segregate themselves from the rest of the world so keeping the current one is more culturally accurate.
by Anonymous8 months ago
That's why we don't sing the whole song because people do know that part of the song is insensitive to some people.
by Creepy_Ad8 months ago
I agree. If anything race relations have gone back 50 years. In the "spirit of inclusion" everything has become more segregated. I believe it's by design.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Because bigots are whiny morons, yes.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Slot.know what else is decisive? The burning of Black Wall Street and the destruction of black neighborhoods. Yet those things still happened. What a tone deaf take.
by Old_Log8 months ago
Did they also play the "regular," one, just curious?
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's oK, just don't call it the "black national anthem".
by Anonymous8 months ago
I can imagine the announcers. "Wow what a great rendition of the national anthem, now please remain silent for the ….ummm…. Other national anthem."
by Anonymous8 months ago
It was written by the NAACP leader in 1900 and promoted by the NAACP as the Black national anthem since 1917. It's okay to call it what it is meant to be.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Settle down Matt Gaetz.
by EasyFriend92168 months ago
"Segregation is good" "Separate but equal" Yeah ok buddy
by turcottedarrell8 months ago
I'm not American?
by ZookeepergameThat8 months ago
It isn't needed. Hockey doing a white one would be seen as very racist.
by Alternative_Pie_7838 months ago
Sounds about white
by Kristopher038 months ago
Don't think this is unpopular with most rational thinking people, singing (or any form of performance) about how you're different while wanting to be treated the same as everyone is just a super level of dumb
by Electronic_Heat8 months ago
God forbid, one thing not be about white people. JFC
by Optimal_Craft8 months ago
Right
by Anonymous8 months ago
Anything they can do to keep us divided and arguing
by Consistent-Elk54908 months ago
Not any more than the first national anthem (im sure your aware of how anything from hundreds of years ago might be seen differently from a black perspective) as soon as the second song plays i feel so divided 😢
by Anonymous8 months ago
They really shouldn't allow seniors online unsupervised in those nursing homes.
by Jayden248 months ago
The Star Spangled Banner is worse. Look up the full lyrics.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Let's just go to a no anthem policy for sporting events.
by nestor048 months ago
Black Americans were once considered property. When our country did start recognizing that they're people too they only counted as 3/5 of a person. They literally had to fight just to be considered people! Instead of focusing on one group having their own anthem, maybe you should focus on how fortunate your people were compared to others...
by Angela178 months ago
The regular old national anthem is also devisive. It injects a divide on basis of nationality. We're all God's children, but patriotism creates unnecessary conflict between nations.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Then what national anthem would you accept?
by Kendranitzsche8 months ago
It's not a black national anthem.. we African Americans have no nation of our own.
by Full-Calligrapher6958 months ago
You African-what?
by Then_Host46058 months ago
As the old saying goes you can always go back. Didn't think so
by Anonymous8 months ago
They got brought to America on slave ships, I suggest you get over it or pay reparations
by Terrible_Employee1308 months ago
Black people's existence is divisive to you people. Everyone is acting like the black national anthem just came out of a vacuum. As if black people just decided they should have a different one for no reason at all. Please take 5 minutes to think about why there might be a separate song they decided to call "the black national anthem" and please actually think about it. As a hint, it's not because we just really like the song. Like seriously, 250 years of slavery, 100 years of legalized segregation, it's only been 60 years since, but you wonder why black people might have some separate cultural norms?
by Anonymous8 months ago
lol, or maybe it's because an election is coming up and they need something to point to and say republicns are racist and 'we're on your side' until it's over and we never hear about this crap again.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Still divisive tho.
by Ok_Cantaloupe8 months ago
What do you mean "you people?"
by fermin298 months ago
The OP isn't asking for a white national anthem
by Kendranitzsche8 months ago
He's imposing a title that was co-opted by people who want to "other" the song rather than embrace its message…because it celebrates something that OP can't relate to…when in fact, you can relate to and celebrate anything positive. There's no ownership except in your mind.
by Anonymous8 months ago
It's not that at all. It's just pretty unfair that I'm not allowed to be a happy proud white American because everywhere I go someone like you is trying to shame me for something I had nothing to do with a long time ago. I'm really sick of hearing that what I say doesn't matter because I'm white, I can't watch that because I'm white, I can't listen to that because I'm white, I can't eat that because I'm white. Isn't that racism? Telling me I can't do something because of my color? Where's the line?
by Anonymous8 months ago
Fr
by Agreenholt8 months ago
I'm against any "national anthem" being played. It's weird and cultish.
by Anonymous8 months ago
Outta curiosity OP, are you aware of ALL of the national anthem's lyrics? Also, fb is not bringing us together, sorry.
by Anonymous8 months ago
I'm sorry I'm cracking up at the last line "the national anthem is for all of us" 🤣😂🤦🏽♀️ Yea, ok
by Great_Violinist22228 months ago
Using the same argument you could say sports teams are offensive as they don't represent diversity and inclusiveness.
by BusySquare74808 months ago
it's only divisive with idiots that hate freedom
by Anonymous8 months ago
Don't sweat it. A country star will cover it here any day now then your soul and the soul of this nation can be healed.
by Maxine298 months ago
What's divisive is your take on the black national anthem. Black people have been enslaved, discriminated against, and forced to live in a separate culture full of poverty and outlandish incarceration rates. And you are upset about a song.
by Anonymous8 months ago
What's "uniquely American" about sports finals? You know other countries have sports teams that go through brackets leading up to one big final "we win the sport this year" game, right? Like, football is even adapted from other preexisting sports. Most of the foods eaten at sports games are adaptations of foreign cuisine. This country isn't that special, bro.
by pcremin8 months ago
One day, I really feel like society will figure out that true integration isn't possible until we create a single unified culture that we can all agree on. We have to see everybody as our people, not just our diaspora.
by javon338 months ago
lol unified culture, how gross and boring.
by Jayden248 months ago
National anthem? Isn't this a Black racial anthem if anything? What nation recognizes this as a national anthem?
by Main_Acanthisitta7088 months ago
The only Black National Anthem I know of is The Dipset Anthem.
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