The NFL Clown Show with the so-called "black national anthem"

The level of divisiveness continues, from the NFL to big corporations to the Democratic Party.

MLK holiday, black history month, and the even dumber juneteenth that is now a national holiday (a day that has no meaning outside of black slaves in Texas being informed by a Union General that Lincoln freed them), to reparation demands, now this.

We have ONE National Anthem, screw the NFL, and the rest of the dividers.


I would trade Juneteenth--an actual historical event--with "Kwanzaa" every year. Into perpetuity.
 
The level of divisiveness continues, from the NFL to big corporations to the Democratic Party.

MLK holiday, black history month, and the even dumber juneteenth that is now a national holiday (a day that has no meaning outside of black slaves in Texas being informed by a Union General that Lincoln freed them), to reparation demands, now this.

We have ONE National Anthem, screw the NFL, and the rest of the dividers.


We have (had?) a glorious nation. Beautiful. Two oceans, mountains, plains, desert. Great, hardworking, independent people. A founding document like no other in the history of humankind.

That said.

Objectively, our National Anthem sucks. As a piece of music, it sucks.

It's unsingable for the average singer, in terms of range.

The part we sing--verse one--is a word soup that is really a single question: which flag is flying? That's it. It's pertinent to one battle in one war. It's not about our founding, our beautiful people or land. It's about one man peering through the dark and asking--in too many words--"which flag is flying"? The question is answered in the next three verses, but nevermind--we never sing them.

We should have a different National Anthem but never will. So we're stuck with our sucky one. Oh well.
 
We have (had?) a glorious nation. Beautiful. Two oceans, mountains, plains, desert. Great, hardworking, independent people. A founding document like no other in the history of humankind.

That said.

Objectively, our National Anthem sucks. As a piece of music, it sucks.

It's unsingable for the average singer, in terms of range.

The part we sing--verse one--is a word soup that is really a single question: which flag is flying? That's it. It's pertinent to one battle in one war. It's not about our founding, our beautiful people or land. It's about one man peering through the dark and asking--in too many words--"which flag is flying"? The question is answered in the next three verses, but nevermind--we never sing them.

We should have a different National Anthem but never will. So we're stuck with our sucky one. Oh well.
It might help to know the history…

 
If you read my post you would know that I do know the history
Oh, I did read it….and the anthem isn’t meant to be a pop song….it’s a ballad of love of this great nation.

Did you hear Chris Stapleton do it for the Super Bowl? It was moving…
 
It was moving not because of the song. It was moving because of the singer.
The artist can only do so much with any particular song…Now granted, Stapleton is very talented, but the love for his country made the song come to life…
 
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Always been fond of this one.
An anthem should make you feel something.

Lol, I like Frank Marino, especially his live rendition of King Bee…but no….

Maybe you feel nothing, because you don’t have any respect for the country…?
 
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