The NFL is planning to have “Lift
Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” more commonly known as the Black
National Anthem, played or performed before all of its first week games
this season, the ever so woke sports network ESPN gleefully reported recently.
The network cited a source supposedly familiar with the plans and said that the
song will be played prior to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” ESPN added that the
league is considering putting the names of victims of police brutality on
player uniforms. In days of yore, national anthems were explicitly a vehicle to
unite a nation’s people through their shared history and pride in their
country.
There is as of yet no word on if
and when the league plans to play the “Yellow,” “Brown,” or “Red” National
Anthems. Nor has the NFL announced plans to play “National Anthems” of
atheists, pangenders, Catholics, bisexual mulatto transvestites, or of
middle-class agnostics who were born on Tuesday afternoons during the month of
May. These oversights, too, must be redressed if the nation is to finally live
up to its erstwhile promise. Right?
A question for you, though, one I
haven’t seen elsewhere. What would happen if I, or any players, took a knee during
the Black National Anthem? Would I/we be considered principled and
courageous, or would we be excommunicated from the Church of Woke, shunned and
vilified? Or worse? Why?
Land of the free? Home of the
brave?
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