Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

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I think I'm starting to get it now. There won't be any countries left...except for one, and it won't be a Western nation...

Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”


Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”


“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.

Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro also commented on the change.


“From our beginning, we have developed a culture of inclusion and acceptance at Tulsa Athletic,” he said in the press release. “We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community. We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way. The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”

The club encouraged fans to sing the song “if they are comfortable.”
 
I think I'm starting to get it now. There won't be any countries left...except for one, and it won't be a Western nation...

Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”


Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”


“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.

Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro also commented on the change.


“From our beginning, we have developed a culture of inclusion and acceptance at Tulsa Athletic,” he said in the press release. “We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community. We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way. The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”

The club encouraged fans to sing the song “if they are comfortable.”

Will the team object if people Kneel during the playing of the number, in honor of police officers who were unjustly persecuted by Black Lives Matter? Men like Officer Wilson of Ferguson or the Baltimore 6 who were persecuted and found innocent in the death of Fred Gay?
 
I think I'm starting to get it now. There won't be any countries left...except for one, and it won't be a Western nation...

Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”


Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”


“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.

Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro also commented on the change.


“From our beginning, we have developed a culture of inclusion and acceptance at Tulsa Athletic,” he said in the press release. “We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community. We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way. The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”

The club encouraged fans to sing the song “if they are comfortable.”

Will the team object if people Kneel during the playing of the number, in honor of police officers who were unjustly persecuted by Black Lives Matter? Men like Officer Wilson of Ferguson or the Baltimore 6 who were persecuted and found innocent in the death of Fred Gay?
I doubt he knows.
 
Meanwhile in Chicago a 13 year old girl was shot in her home by a stray bullet while dancing with her mother. But I'm sure removing the anthem for the sake of "inclusion" will stop the carnage of blacks in the cities.

White liberals and BLM don't get it. Blacks don't need or want all these pointless gestures that do nothing but divide people.

 
I think I'm starting to get it now. There won't be any countries left...except for one, and it won't be a Western nation...

Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”


Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”


“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.

Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro also commented on the change.


“From our beginning, we have developed a culture of inclusion and acceptance at Tulsa Athletic,” he said in the press release. “We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community. We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way. The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”

The club encouraged fans to sing the song “if they are comfortable.”
wow, just another reason to never watch soccer
 
Leave the national anthem alone.
Play your stupid soccer and leave politics to politicians.
Stupid morons.
Don't mix sport with politics.
It's a tradition that we play the national anthem before every game in all sports.
If you don't like it move the fuck out of this country.
 
I like the idea of team doing as they please.


Its really up to the owner of the team to determine what he will tolerate and what he will forbid from his staff.

After all, he's the one who signs the pay checks, and he will be the one who suffers if the fans don't like the product.
 
I think I'm starting to get it now. There won't be any countries left...except for one, and it won't be a Western nation...

Soccer team ditches national anthem for this patriotic song

A semi-professional soccer team will no longer play the U.S. national anthem before matches and instead will be replacing it with Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”


Tulsa Athletic, of the National Premier Soccer League, announced Wednesday that in order to create a more inclusive environment it will change the song. The team said it decided on making the change after reviewing the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”


“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner' lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values. While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the team said in a press release.

Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro also commented on the change.


“From our beginning, we have developed a culture of inclusion and acceptance at Tulsa Athletic,” he said in the press release. “We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community. We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way. The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”

The club encouraged fans to sing the song “if they are comfortable.”
Hopefully the Tulsa team will lose every game it plays
 
I wonder if the players had any say in the matter? Anyway the management made it clear that the league is no longer a sport but a political tool of the international left. Too bad for the players.
 

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