WND Melts Down Over ‘Black National Anthem’ At Super Bowl

WorldNetDaily — no fan of black people, given its longtime emphasis on race-baiting over crime issues — was predictably unhappy that “Lift Every Voice And Sing” would be sung at the Super Bowl. Joe Kovacs complained in a Jan. 22 article:

Outrage is erupting in the wake of the NFL’s announcement the so-called “black national anthem” will be featured at Super Bowl LVIII next month, in addition to America’s actual national anthem.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” will be performed by Andra Day, the Grammy-winning R&B singer, and will be played alongside “The Star-Bangled Banner” [sic].

The “black national anthem” was sung at last year’s big game by Sheryl Lee Ralph, while Mary Mary performed it in 2022 in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020.

“The NFL has announced that the so-called ‘Black National Anthem’ will be performed at the Super Bowl,” said Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA on X.

“Of course, in reality, the black national anthem is performed at every Super Bowl, because The Star-Spangled Banner is the anthem of ALL Americans. The effort to create a ‘black national anthem,’ and a ‘black Independence Day’ in Juneteenth, is part of a wider project to divide Americans up by race.

Let’s get back to the days where Whitney Houston showed ALL Americans how to sing about and celebrate this country,” he concluded, attaching a clip of Houston singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1991 at Super Bowl XXV.

Neither Kovacs nor Kirk cited anything in the song’s lyrics that could possibly spark the “outrage” Kovacs claims is out there; Kovacs merely quoted mostly anonymous right-wing reaction.

A Jan. 25 column by Larry Elder spouted the required talking point: “The national anthem is also the black/white/Asian/Hispanic national anthem. It is the national anthem of every citizen.” He then whined further:

As for the black national anthem to be sung at the Super Bowl, what’s next? How about playing the University of Michigan fight song? What happens if at least some players reject the narrative that blacks remain victims and consider the singing of the black national anthem at the Super Bowl divisive?

The first player, white or black, who takes a knee at the Super Bowl during the “black national anthem” will immediately have the league’s bestselling jersey. As Nike says, “Just do it!”

Mychal Massie — who had a massive freakout over the song last year, ranting that “the pushers of the so-called anthem hide behind a Christian hymn is dishonorable and morally opprobrious” calling for expelling supporters of the song from the country, going on to sound like a white supremacist (despite being a black man) by accusing black people of having a “penchant for out-of-wedlock children, violence, and supporting Planned Parenthood by giving them money to murder their children” — melted down even further in a Feb. 5 column, smearing the song by trying to link it to communism:

It’s fitting that the Circus Maximus of sporting events, i.e., the television audience viewing the Super Bowl, would be chosen as the target audience for social reprogramming. This hybrid paleo-cultural reprogramming is intended to further reduce malleable minds that embrace the heretical lie there exists such a thing as crayon-color skin. A heresy, I might add, that argues the summon bonum is only that which elevates the causes of the crayon-color people.

It was bad enough when the public was subjected to product commercials. But, in recent years, a nexus between exploitation, the Super Bowl and so-called Black History Month has been has been discovered by cultural Marxists. This year promises to be even more of a spectacle.

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This brings me to the detestable idea of playing a bogus crayon-colored national anthem before the game begins. These demonic morons cannot have it both ways. The fact they overlook is if they’re to recognize the hymn “Life Every Voice and Sing” as their national anthem, then they’re embracing communism.

The hymn has its origin in 1900. It was co-opted in1917, exactly during the time that Russian dictator Vladimir Lenin and W.E.B. du Bois (who bore striking similarity to one another) were advancing communism into every country with melanin-dominant people. Lenin applauded du Bois for his genius ideas of turning “colored peoples” against “non-colored peoples.”

Most people who will be singing that make-believe anthem haven’t any idea they’ll be signaling their support for the boot of neo-communism on their throats. They’re to shortsighted to realize what living under Marxism and following communist propagandists has gained them nothing but misery.

However, Massie cited no song lyrics he deemed even remotely offensive, let alone “communist.” Massie again demanded that anyone who likes the song be deported or put into the equivalent of a concentration camp:

It seems reasonable to understand that in order to have a national anthem, you must first have a nation. A national anthem is the official song of a nation or country.

These people, in their rush to claim something they believe will elevate own inferiority, foolishly dismiss definitions and reality. But, I have a solution.

My solution would be that all Americans who truly love America and who want to work and contribute to our nation should openly condemn those who do not. I further advocate if these crazies want a color-coded national anthem – put them on ships back to Somalia or some other hole. No return permitted.

Of course, we could just section off a piece of California and let the lunatics name it whatever their heart’s desire. Let them start their own government, their own system of currency, their own justice system, etc. Let them govern it however they see fit. But, they would never be permitted back to the rest of real American [sic].

WND also published a Feb. 6 column by Dennis Prager calling the performance of the song “destructive” and evidence that “he Left seeks to destroy America as we have known it. Playing two “national anthems” has no other goal than disuniting Americans.” He cited no lyrics of the song that purportedly support his interpretation.

After the game, WND republished an article it stole from Fox News with the headline “Super Bowl LVIII black national anthem ignites anger.” But that was not the headline Fox News put on it; it noted only that the anthem “causes stir on social media,” and the word “anger” appears nowhere in the article itself.