Used to sing it in church almost once a year
There was just a beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner before the Vikings game by a black singing group with a few horns. There were very few players kneeling but of course the camera focused on them. Some players with locked arms. Showed one black staffer saluting the flag. I didn't catch their singing of Lift Every Voice And Sing. I think they maybe relied on the league version that was played earlier. I have ZERO problems with them singing Lift Every Voice before games. The kneeling during the anthem bothers me but whatever.
I absolutely can as long as they don't show a bunch of players with masks emblazoned with BLM. BLM is NOT a good representation of black people. It's divisive and has had a horrible effect on race relations.
Problem is there is nothing inherently “good” with a movement/party that can truly never stand for anything, or anything good either, without borrowing or stealing from someone else.
And there is no way for a person to prove they arent a racist.
i can. because i believe black lives matter. and thats what i believe the patches and shirts represent. you choose to want to believe that BLM means an organization. millions and millions dont think BLM is an organization it is a belief. stop thinking of the letters BLM meaning a very small organization and start thinking it is a very large believe system and you will get over your fear
i think you know the answer to this one. it does go both ways. But if you are trying to compare the effects of the two have to be kidding right? there is nothing that can compare what racism has done to black people. why are you scared?
So if there was a group of black people that wanted total segregation from white people, and a group of white people encouraged them, are they all racists?
You can look it up like anyone else. This is pretty old news
BLM is an organization that proudly proclaims its belief that all black Americans should receive a guaranteed minimum income and “free” healthcare, schooling, food, real estate, gender reassignment surgery, and abortion; bring an “an end to all jails” as we know them; disrupt the traditional family; demand reparations on behalf of foreign nations; and form a “global liberation movement” that will “overturn US imperialism [and] capitalism.”
Maybe that is the problem. Anytime anybody dares suggest to the black community how to improve their situation, they get shouted down. Black people are the ONLY minority that needs special attention - that “should” be a clue.Nothing like the white dude from the Dakotas (I think anyway) defining what is and isn’t good for black people.
Maybe I'm missing your point. But the negro national anthem can be traced back to the NAACP in early 1900s. I can't tell you the exact date the song referred to by the OP was adopted as the alternate black national anthem. You can probably find all kinds of information on the internet. IF I am missing your point I apologise but I am not going to bother posting a bunch of links for something that's been old news with the NFL since July
Honesty here. I have a handful of relativity close relationship with black Americans and if my kids were young enough to need guardian if something happened to the wife and I, one couple in particular would be that. So my point is we're close AND respect each other. So if I disagree with things, does that make me racist when I would trust a black couple to be charge of raising my kids??
Now that I know... thanks for the clarification.... your question (understand it anyway)... I would say no there is no DIRECT connect between BLM and what the NFL has done or the patches that ksu and maybe more wore Saturday.
Nothing like the white dude from the Dakotas (I think anyway) defining what is and isn’t good for black people.
The problem enters in when people give money to BLM and it supports something totally different than what most people think. BLM has turned in to nothing more than the Occupy Wall Street movement. Rich people and cops bad. Anarchy good. IF black lives truly mattered they would start in inner city neighborhoods policing all of the black youth killing each other. ONE neighborhood in Chicago did that. HOORAY for them!! They turned back a "BLM" march and as one mother put it, "all you people do is march in, stir up trouble and get our black babies killed. Get the hell out of here and go back to where you came from".
The white dude is not "from the Dakotas" and the white dude has a black niece and nephew. AND the white dude is the godfather of that niece. So F you whitey.Nothing like the white dude from the Dakotas (I think anyway) defining what is and isn’t good for black people.
National commentators generally from left leaning networks have dubbed it the black national anthem. The NFL ran video footage non-stop of people in BLM masks while the song played pregame today. Last night a Fox Sports telecast focused in on the BLM logo in the outfield fence of the Twins stadium and paired it with some awkward testimony from their announcers. I'm sorry. I've watched what BLM protestors did to black owned businesses and public property. I can't support their actions. NOBODY in their right mind believes that black lives don't matter. The problem is that the actions of the BLM movement have done more damage to race relations and black people IMO than anything we've seen in decades. All they did was justify prejudice. It makes me sick. I'm the proud godparent of 2 great young black adults. NOTHING good came from those protests. NOTHING.
Your last full sentence is wrong. It's not an either or. AND plain and simple, IF you're innocent, when a policeman tells you to do something you do it.
