The following report is by The National Desk (TND):
Super Bowl LVIII will feature a performance of Lift Every Voice and Sing, dubbed the “Black national anthem,” alongside performances of the Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful, the NFL announced Thursday.
Performing the song will be RnB singer Andra Day, who is best known for her triple-platinum song “Rise Up.” Posting the news on social media, Day shared her excitement at “performing the anthem” at the event.
“Peace & Blessings!!! Performing the Anthem at the SuperBowl yall! Grateful! Thank You God,” Day told her more than 300,000 X followers.
In 1919, the song was dubbed the “Negro national anthem” by the NAACP and went on to be commonly called the “Black national anthem,” NPR reported. Columbia professor Shana Redmond told the outlet the song aims to fill in gaps in the unifying message of the Star-Spangled Banner.
The National Anthem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ was missing something — was missing a radical history of inclusion, was missing an investment in radical visions of the future of equality, of parity. ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ became a counterpoint to those types of absences and elisions.
She said.
The song’s lyrics reference the biblical book of Exodus and invoke themes of escaping from slavery to freedom.
“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.”
The lyrics read in part.
“Lift Every Voice” rose in popularity in the wake of the Black Lives Matter riots in summer 2020, later becoming a part of NASCAR and NFL events, NBC News reported. Miami University professor Rodney Coates told the outlet he attributed the song’s rise in popularity to “pandering.”
“It’s blatant pandering to public sentiment,” Coates said. “It would be a publicity stunt.”
Others say they find the song divisive. Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake went viral in 2023 for remaining seated during a performance of the song at Super Bowl LVII, Fox News reported. The move earned support from several Black Republicans, who argued “we have one national anthem, it’s THE national anthem.”
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson in 2023 argued the song should be made “illegal.”
“What a repugnant, degenerate thing to do to separate the national anthem by race,” Johnson said. “Is there a white national anthem? I’m sure not many people would be happy with that being sung.”
The NFL has been mired in racial controversy in recent years as players and coaches use their platform to advocate for their beliefs. Jerod Mayo, the new head coach of the New England Patriots, sparked a flurry of online discourse this week after he discussed racism during his opening press conference.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:26
Clearly these RACIST losers can’t see that, blinded by their hatred and envy, and self-love. That’s all this is about at it’s core: envy. But, by performing this stupid and racist tune alongside the National Anthem, once again demonstrates the times in which we are living in. I have not watched the Stupor Bowl – the national holiday for Americans who idolize and are ensnared by pleasure – in many, many years, and this year will prove no different.
[3] A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both. [4] Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? Proverbs 27:3-4
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I get a funny feeling that this is only the start and more will added to the point where just all the anthems alone will take up and additional 2 hours added for all the special poptart theatrics.
personally, i think men in tights is ridiculous.
even if its robin hood. sheesh!
they might aswell just turn it into the 8 hours olympic games opening ceremony. why delay it any longer lol
Soon, this bread and circus scene in America is going to crash and be no more!
Going woke is another ploy to bring down the economy, and boy is it ever so working!
The question is: how many people are finally going to wake up and see that it’s all a distraction designed to keep the people asleep and obsessed with something that won’t mean anything within a few minutes let alone a few years?
A lot of people have woken up and are boycotting the NFL which is great; others on the other hand, they love their NFL idols and they’d rather die than part with them, and the global elitists are saying “they’re a bunch of morons and knuckleheads, destroying their nation will be a breeze.”
I’ve only seen ONE Super Toilet Bowl and that was in 2006 the Colts vs. the Bears, and I was SO BORED!!!
The Colts “won” (it’s all scripted don’t be fooled) and they make some wishy washy claim of Jesus helping them win – Pffft whatever.
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Timothy 3:5
How can people sit and watch this without getting so mind-numbingly bored and restless? They’re bewitched, literally, by their idolatry and occult symbolism that especially happens during the halftime shows, also, Super Bowl is actually Superb Owl as this is a set up arranged by the illuminati occultists who worship Satan with this 40-foot owl statue at Bohemian Grove.
The more you know.
Parted company with the professional sports garbage long ago, & even before being saved I could see the rip-off & crass merchandising involved. Why pay through the nose to be mocked & disrespected by people who could care less about anyone but themselves? And the same thing goes for Hollywood, Nashville etc. How could that help my family? Let alone my country.
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That whole ‘peace & blessings, y’all’ makes me want to puke. It has nothing to do with the peace & blessings coming to redeemed saints, even in this wicked & still wrapped in corruptible flesh…and they only USE the Bible, not believing it, to their ends & the service of the god they truly seek & slavishly serve: Satan. It’s an insult to any of the race of mankind of any shade of skin, quantity of melanin.
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It’s of the sick Romish antichrist HU-MANI-TEEEEEEEEE forced conformity thing, with her Pax Romana, & her global sorted & initiated cronies and harlots. (I always picture a big, fat, docile, not-so-bright manatee every time that I’m forced to endure some rally-the-idiots ‘spirit of humanity’ propagandist or ‘influencer’…. Alex Jones, the White Rose…) Deceitful. Wicked. Evil. Vile. Craft. Blasphemous.
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Truly despicable….and ‘deplorable’.