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NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games

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Who comes up with this stuff? I think the NFL is just trying to tank its attendance and earnings, by stuffing in as much politics as possible.


The NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games

(CNN)The NFL plans to have the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" -- known as the Black national anthem -- performed live or played before every game in Week 1 of the NFL season, a source familiar with the league's discussions told CNN on Thursday.

The news was first reported by The Undefeated, which is owned by ESPN.

According to the source, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" will be played before "The Star-Spangled Banner." This will begin with the nationally televised first game of the season, which is on September 10, when the defending Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, host the Houston Texans.

The song also will be played during the full slate of those Week 1 Sunday afternoon games, during Sunday Night Football and during the two ESPN Monday night games, the source says.

Additionally, the source says that the league is working collaboratively with players to recognize victims of systemic racism throughout the season. Among the items being discussed with players are adding names of victims on helmet decals or jerseys patches, as well as educational programs and storytelling (such as additional PSAs about the victims and their families).

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson, according to the NAACP's website. Johnson's brother John Rosamond Johnson set the poem to music in 1899. It was first performed in 1900 by a choir at the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida -- where James Weldon Johnson was principal -- as part of a celebration of former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

Apparently, it will be played before the US National Anthem. Go figure.
 
They play Ebony and Ivory before every game I think I could handle it. If it's going to be like I'm afraid it is they can count me out.
 
Is this whole thing meant to give white people a chance to "take a knee"?? :doh
 
Why does this bother you?

Myself, I couldn't care less what anthem they play. It would be better if we just stopped with the anthem at pro sports events. Save that for the Olympics.
 
Who comes up with this stuff? I think the NFL is just trying to tank its attendance and earnings, by stuffing in as much politics as possible.


The NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games



Apparently, it will be played before the US National Anthem. Go figure.

What a bunch of crap. Are we going to play the asian national anthem too? Black National Anthem, and uh which country is that? The attacks on the country, the flag, now the national anthem is just anti American BS. If you don't like America move somewhere else.
 
Who comes up with this stuff? I think the NFL is just trying to tank its attendance and earnings, by stuffing in as much politics as possible.


The NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games



Apparently, it will be played before the US National Anthem. Go figure.

White folks gonna kneel? I wasn't aware black americans had a national anthem, You mean black Americans don't celebrate the Star Spangled Banner? That's the country's national anthem.
 
I'll be surprised if this latest decision doesn't cost ticket sales and viewership. But the NFL is weak. Do they not know who their audience is made up of?
 
Is this whole thing meant to give white people a chance to "take a knee"?? :doh

Exactly! It's like toppling your inner Christopher Columbus statue even though you aren't Italian or Spanish.
 
What a bunch of crap. Are we going to play the asian national anthem too? Black National Anthem, and uh which country is that? The attacks on the country, the flag, now the national anthem is just anti American BS. If you don't like America move somewhere else.

Heaven ****ing forbid we have a bit of unity, yeah?

The NHL plays the Canadian and the US anthem at games with teams between the two countries. If the NHL can handle two songs, the NFL can handle two songs.

For ****'s sake, some people get so triggered by inclusion.
 
Who comes up with this stuff? I think the NFL is just trying to tank its attendance and earnings, by stuffing in as much politics as possible.


The NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games



Apparently, it will be played before the US National Anthem. Go figure.

It'll be cool if they play this version.



(Yeah, yeah...I know they got the title wrong. This is a different song. But it's better than that boring Lift Every Voice and Sing.)
 
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Is this whole thing meant to give white people a chance to "take a knee"?? :doh

It's probably meant for you to sit on your ass with a beer in your hand like you do for the national anthem.
 
What a bunch of crap. Are we going to play the asian national anthem too? Black National Anthem, and uh which country is that? The attacks on the country, the flag, now the national anthem is just anti American BS. If you don't like America move somewhere else.

Jingoism usually is bolstered by folks easily duped into worshipping symbology over actual people.
 
Heaven ****ing forbid we have a bit of unity, yeah?

The NHL plays the Canadian and the US anthem at games with teams between the two countries. If the NHL can handle two songs, the NFL can handle two songs.

For ****'s sake, some people get so triggered by inclusion.
We are one nation. We have a national anthem. That is unity. Playing a "black" national anthem as if there's a separate black nation is what is divisive.

This is just stupid kowtowing to a guy who thinks the 4th of July is "Celebrate White Supremacy Day".
 
Heaven ****ing forbid we have a bit of unity, yeah?

The NHL plays the Canadian and the US anthem at games with teams between the two countries. If the NHL can handle two songs, the NFL can handle two songs.

For ****'s sake, some people get so triggered by inclusion.

Even when cons are in charge of the government they still rebel against everything. There is no pleasing them.
 
We are one nation. We have a national anthem. That is unity.

:lamo

Right. Because you treat anyone who isn't a Trumpists like a genuine American, fellow citizen. Right.
 
Heaven ****ing forbid we have a bit of unity, yeah?

The NHL plays the Canadian and the US anthem at games with teams between the two countries. If the NHL can handle two songs, the NFL can handle two songs.

For ****'s sake, some people get so triggered by inclusion.

It's the whiny violin of sadness.
 
Wonder if the NFL will also have segregated concession stands for Week 1 as well
 
What a bunch of crap. Are we going to play the asian national anthem too? Black National Anthem, and uh which country is that? The attacks on the country, the flag, now the national anthem is just anti American BS. If you don't like America move somewhere else.

The '60s are calling, they want you back, since that's when the whole "America, love it or leave it" thing died out.
 
Who comes up with this stuff? I think the NFL is just trying to tank its attendance and earnings, by stuffing in as much politics as possible.


The NFL Plans to Play the Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games



Apparently, it will be played before the US National Anthem. Go figure.

At the end of the day, who really gives a **** what music they play before the game. This is like going to a rock show and complaining about about what was played in the arena between the opening act and the headliner.
 
Heaven ****ing forbid we have a bit of unity, yeah?

The NHL plays the Canadian and the US anthem at games with teams between the two countries. If the NHL can handle two songs, the NFL can handle two songs.

For ****'s sake, some people get so triggered by inclusion.

They're in full victim mode. "It's gonna be played first!"
 
This isnt going to make anything better. If players continue to kneel during the anthem I expect fans will remain seated during the other song. The only thing this will accomplish is drive the wedge dividing the fans from the players deeper. Goodell is deystroying the league.

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Thank goodness the Grammies and the Oscars are over - although I suppose this same politics could show up in next year's event.

It's only a matter of time before it shows up everywhere, including on the back of milk cartons.
 
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