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DONKEY: Black national Anthem Sung At Super Bowl LVIII Criticized

Feb 12, 20246 min
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Speaker 1

This is a miracle, there is no question, and there are problems in this country between police and community.

Speaker 2

Yes, you are a donkey to the latest on that police killing. I'm a black man. Now the new development in the deathly spawshooting rampase man. Yes, that was a really bad day for him and.

Speaker 1

This is what he did, and so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, White supremacist violence, it is always has been the number one threat to office side.

Speaker 2

But I'm also very proud that my wife was a practice club bitch.

Speaker 1

All right, Sonny, please tell me why was I your donkey.

Speaker 3

Of the day.

Speaker 1

Well, Donkey today from Monday, February twelfth goes to Representative Matt Gates of Florida. Excuse me, I'm discussing this, so sorry, Representative Mike Lloyd Chick, Conservative fun date, C J. Pearson and everybody else who had their fruitable looms and a bunch. Because the NFL let andre day perform lift every voice and commonly, uh, lift every voice from sing commonly known as the black national anthem.

Speaker 2

Now night, just like at many a sporting event.

Speaker 1

More than one national anthem was saying, okay, they do it all the time, especially in boxing, if there's a fighter from another country, someone.

Speaker 2

Will do their national anthem.

Speaker 1

I've seen the Canadian national anthem, the Mexican national anthem, saying it happens all the time, and in a sport that has a very high percentage of black players, performing the black national anthem makes sense to me. And Andrea Day performed it last night. Can we hear a little bit of the black national anthem?

Speaker 3

Please come through Andrea.

Speaker 2

With okay now.

Speaker 1

Representative Matt Gaetstan on X they're desecrating America's national anthem by playing something called.

Speaker 2

The black national anthem.

Speaker 1

Mike Leoudschig said, there's no such thing as a black national anthem. We are all Americans united by our great and beautiful Star Spangled banner.

Speaker 2

The Super Bowl is supposed to bring us together.

Speaker 1

Into disgrace that the NFL decided to push the politics of racial division again.

Speaker 2

CJ.

Speaker 1

Pearson wrote on X before Tonight's Super Bowl, as a young black and proud American, let me make myself clear.

Speaker 2

There is only one national anthem.

Speaker 1

There is only one United States of America, and it's for everyone.

Speaker 2

White, black, yellow, and even maroon.

Speaker 1

He said, The less Agenda of division isn't just needless, it's exhausting. Listen, man, have any of y'all ever stopped to think there would be no division if y'all didn't cause it, If they would simply acknowledge the Black National Anthem for what it is, Okay, there wouldn't be an issue. And what it is is a promise of the freedom, liberty, and justice America promised all people under the constitution.

Speaker 2

Okay.

Speaker 1

It was written at a crucial time in American history, all right, when Jim Crow was replacing slavery and African Americans was searching for an identity of their own. Author and activist James Weldon Johnson wrote the words as a poem, which his brother John Rosamond Johnson then set the music. So if you believe in the freedom of all Americans, if you believe in equality for all Americans, if you truly do believe in liberty.

Speaker 2

And justice for all, to lift every voice.

Speaker 1

And sing wouldn't bother you, not even a little bit?

Speaker 2

Okay.

Speaker 1

It was first performed in Jacksonville, FLOYDA, to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Abraham Lincoln, you know him, right. He issued the Emancipation proclamation that freed the slaves. The song was written as a hopeful appeal for the liberty of black Americans.

Speaker 2

It was the promise of freedom.

Speaker 1

If you don't like the song, then you simply don't like seeing black people free.

Speaker 2

How don't expect Mac Gates and Mike Lloyd Chick to notice. But TJ. Pison, you're a black person.

Speaker 1

You have to know this, Okay, lift every voice and sing is so American and it's not something you should look at as anti American if you do, indeed believe that they should be freedom, liberty, and justice for all people. If you believe that, then you should look at this song the same way you look at the National anthem and the Star Spangled banner. Not to mention, Reeba McIntire sang the national anthem, and.

Speaker 2

Post Malone did American beautiful.

Speaker 1

So all aspects of America were represented last night. So I don't understand how come when people from other countries come here and participate in sporting events and their national anthem is saying it don't bother nobody. But anytime black people give some acknowledgement as proud citizens of this country, it's a problem. Imagine Matt Jates, Imagine Mike Lloyd Chick, Imagine Sheese Pearson.

Speaker 2

Imagine y'all simply.

Speaker 1

Said, it's great to see the Black National Anthem acknowledge that the Super Bowl. Think about how that acknowledgement would bring people together. You know, we live in a world full of sheep and folks just be sitting around waiting to know how to feel about things. They literally go on social media and wait to know how to feel

about certain things and events. If you all that simply said, good for the NFL to acknowledging our Black Americans with the Black National Anthem, that would collectively bring people together. But like most things black in this country, you simply tried to write it out of history and tell people that it doesn't really exist. You all could have created energy and rhetoric that caused unity, but instead you decided

to cause division. Please give Matt Gates, Mike Lloyd Chick, and c J. Pearson the biggest ee hull.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

I mean, that's that's just as exhausting as y'all think the less agenda of.

Speaker 2

The vision is in my opinion. All right, well, thank you for that. Donkey Today.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club

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