I am not a fan of professional football and seldom watch if ever but when blacks, who hate this country, move and establish their own nation, they can play any damn song they want. As long as they stay in America seems to me our national anthem should not have to endure hate competition.
The NFL Fumbles the National Anthem
Editorial of The New York Sun
When football season starts September 9, it will be with two national anthems — the “Star Spangled Banner” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The NFL hopes this will advance its political goals. We have a hard time, though, seeing the adoption of two national anthems, one for white America and one for black America, as a unifying démarche celebrating “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
It’s not our intention to disparage either song. “The Star Spangled Banner” was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, when our flag was illuminated by rockets over Fort McHenry. “Lift Every Voice” was written in 1900, by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson went on to lead the NAACP and become a Republican activist, backing Theodore Roosevelt for president. His song became the informal civil rights anthem.
Neither do we intend to belittle the NFL’s aspirations to be a force for equality under law. Our football teams are generally privately-owned, for-profit companies, with their own First Amendment rights. If they want to use — or merely permit — their players to protest for the NFL’s, or their own, political causes, we don’t see where the rest of us have any business to tell them otherwise. It’s a free country.
To the degree, though, that the NFL aspires to be a force for inclusion and unity, it strikes us that the introduction of a second national anthem is a step backward. Are players going to stand for one anthem and kneel the other? If there is something actually wrong with the lyrics of our national anthem, our instinct would be to change the words, rather than to sing two anthems at the same event.
As it happens, the third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner has a couplet — “No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave” — that is sometimes cited as offensive. But if it’s the whole anthem itself that offends, how is two anthems a solution? Congress could enact new lyrics. Or the League could simply have its anthem-singers skip the third verse.
That’s what Whitney Houston did when she sang what may be the most brilliant rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” ever sung — particularly when she hit that high note that coincides with the last word of the phrase “land of the free.” What is important is that we have a national song that unites us all behind the American idea — that “all men are created equal” that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . .”
After the death of George Floyd, President George W. Bush issued a statement declaring that “America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity.” He suggested that we “have often underestimated how radical that quest really is.” Our own view is that it will be easier to pursue if we fight as one nation, not two — and all sing one national anthem.
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It is one thing to, as Mark Levin suggests, be a Marxist and it is another to support one but the effect is basically the same except for the aggregate numbers.
I have many liberal friends who either ignore and/or tolerate those who espouse Marxist views and they remain silent . Yet they were very vocal when Trump espoused capitalistic views and supported those who showed dis-respect for the flag, tolerated de-emphasis of law enforcement, were silent regarding defunding the police and tolerated other acts that weakened and/or divided our nation. If I ignore a crime am I too a criminal?
If I support and read the New York Times, which totally is in bed with Marxism's thrust, am I enabling Marxism to flourish? If I support Black Lives Matter, which was founded by admitted Marxists, how can I duck not being called a Marxist sympathizer. If I support the mayor of New York how can I deny his Marxist background and philosophy.
A lot of Americans don't really know much about who and what they support. The train whistle sounds good/appealing so they hop aboard. I often ask my liberal friends to go into detail about their expressed views and they cannot. They hear a tag line and simply mouth it as being something they believe. Yet, when it comes to hating Trump went on for hours. Why? I believe part of the answer is that the mass media spent 90% of their ink and TV programs being critical of Trump, many, even now, disregard saying anything comparable about Biden and, in many cases, ignore Biden's son, Hunter, and any and all factual evidence. Certainly they have proven unwilling to probe, investigate and reveal.
Levin is not reluctant to brand America's mass media as Marxist flavored. After all, students have been drilled in Marxist views by journalism department professors for decades. So much of the insane ideas being launched today obviously were bred in the petri dishes of Marxist leaning teachers and Marxist advocate professors. Education today is more associated with indoctrination than free expression.
I dare you to name one significant government agency that has not been infected with Marxist thinking and run by radical theorists. Virtually every nomination Biden makes have questionable anti-capitalism views that have been openly expressed.
Levin seems to have let the cat out of the bag and, lo and behold. when viewed from his perspective and held up to light the mice have taken over.,
Our current president's rule by executive order(s) is filled with deranged thinking which are direct attacks on our constitutional form of government which was formed to serve "we the people." The constitutional dictates did not come from an al powerful, dictatorial and distant government.
The three branches of our government were designed to put restraints on each other. Congress has allowed the Oval Office to rise beyond what our "founders" envisioned. Congress abdicated its authority and the vacuum was filled when a strong president chose to use his pen and phone to circumvent.
My liberal friends constantly harped on Trump as a dictator but ignored Obama and have not uttered a peep about Biden. They attacked Trump by employing deceit and lies yet tolerate Biden's licentious behaviour. One, in particular is giddy over the prospect of Trump being found guilty of criminal theft but ignores Biden's potential money laundering and selling of his office and other perfidious alleged acts.
Then we come to Stacy Abrams who has enriched herself by lying and AOC and her merry gang of anti-Semites and thieves.
And:
“I give you my word as a Biden” was Joe Biden’s response to other world leaders when questioned if America is back and a phrase I personally never...
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The constant drip of a drop of water eventually can corrode and penetrate even steel.
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