When football season opens, if it does, we’ll be hearing two national anthems. (Readers of a certain age may remember one of them; it went with the deprecated American nation we all grew up with.) The NFL will be playing the “Black National Anthem” before “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
Why would one nation have two national anthems? Answer: it wouldn’t.
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
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Present day SLAVE exploiters protesting slavery of 150 years past.
All those jerseys & other PROFITABLE toys are made by SLAVES for pennies.
You do realize there were MANY Black slave owners pre Civil War.
Kaepernick is actively engaged in and profiting from SLAVERY.
And ye shall be JUDGED as ye judge others.
Cannot live by your own proclaimed values.
Believe in Something, Even if it means HAVING TO PAY YOUR FACTORY WORKERS.
Every American needs to be reminded that the Nike brand was built on the backs of foreign slave children. They have some damn nerve claiming that they hold the moral high ground.
Every person purchasing Slave labor produced goods is actively engaging in Slavery. Just because you are not there personally, you are a Slaver. NIKE, APPLE, both notorious Slavers.
So “Socially Concerned” NIKE is paying ALL of it’s overseas workers $15/hour now? Hmmmmmm?
Someone PLEASE contact NIKE’s overseas factories and inform the Workers they are ALL going to be paid MINIMUM $15/hour … USD.
WITH medical, dental, vision, vacations, maternity leave, pensions and 401Ks. Time and a half for work over 40 hours and on Sundays & holidays. ALL RETRO-ACTIVE to Date of Hire for ALL employees Past, Present, & Future.
NIKE — another one of those Socialist MEGA Rich monsters that wants to “engineer” YOUR life.
Mar 2, 2020A report published Sunday by an Australian think tank revealed that as many as 83 internationally known brands – including Nike, BMW, Apple, Sony, Google, Lacoste, and Nintendo – have active ties to factories where evidence suggests the Communist Party has shipped Uyghur Muslims to engage in forced labor.
Sportsball? No thanks.
Sunday is too valuable to waste sitting around like some fat drooling marshmallow and cheering for people who hate your guts.
If it were humanly possible to spend less of my time watching pro sports I would. It’s hard to get below zero, but I’m working on it.
JWM
If the NFL actually plays this year, it will be the fourth season in a row I’ve tuned it out.
I think Canada has two national anthems for awhile. Ireland and New Zealand also.
I am called to put my foot down once more. To Malcolm and the comrades who feed the pyre: The man who floated the notion that the NYTM’s 1619 issue was a declaration of war. The man who keeps repeating “I wish I didn’t have to own a gun.” I won’t ask why. Yes, history is being written as a constant flow. “The Night They Drove Dixie Down” is still being confused for an anthem for the ‘The Lost Cause”. I say read from your enemy before you pull the trigger as they have been reading you. Fasten your seatbelt and put on a mask. Prosperity for the next 16 billion wether we share it with them or not!
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Happy 5th to all!!!! We are still here!!!
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Roger,
The examples you give make my point exactly – they have two “national” anthems because of divided sovereignty and internal bifurcation; they aren’t really one nation at all.
That we will now have two national anthems in America shows that we are no longer one nation either. What once was a grand and stately family home is now converted, in dilapidated disrepair, into a boarding-house for transients.
Jim,
My! I’m sure as well that all the children will be above average. I can almost hear “The Internationale” playing in the background.
Of course, for those whose “national anthem” is being added to top of the NFL repertoire, the best shot at prosperity they’ve ever had (note, for example, the fabulous prosperity of the players themselves) is right here in the capitalist USA — where earlier this year, employment for blacks etc. reached its highest levels ever.
As for that “pyre”: looking around, the only flames I see are coming from torched cars and businesses in Democrat-run cities, and from the great bonfire of American heritage, tradition, and unity now set ablaze by our modern True Believers.
Of course the “1619 Project” is a declaration of war. (A war on our traditional culture, at the very least — and soon, perhaps, to be much more.) One side wants to defame and destroy a great nation; one side simply wants to cherish and preserve it. If you want a war, then you shall have it, but it is a grotesque slander to suggest that those who love the America you and I inherited are the ones who started it.
It might be worthwhile to by a ticket just to take a knee and walk out.
You requested respect. Introducing the hot button “slander” and the distracting pointing a finger at your twisted view of the “first strikers” is way out of bounds. I suggest no such thing. Adding fuel to a fire is not starting it. Pointing out your propaganda for what it is… complete distortion of reality to prop up “The Lost Tycoon” as a noble ambassador of Capitalism is my right and duty. Why you continue to drone inharmoniously behind a curtain of Patriotism is beyond comprehension. Your freedom to express is your right and an obligation. I won’t continue arguing in public with you. As a Friend you won’t have to worry. Neither a commie or weaponized am I. Just keep in mind in the evolution of revolution the side you are on gets blurry when you ask yourself “the forgiven or the forgiving?” There is good reason for Planned Parenthood. CU ‘round the campus.
Jim, I’ll confess that I have trouble reading you. When you speak of “feeding pyres”, and “pulling triggers”, it seems, I think, that you are making a charge of instigating hostilities.
Have I misread you? If so I apologize.
Do I “drone inharmoniously behind a curtain of patriotism”? Perhaps I am not so subtle. Could it be that I just mean what I say?
I, for one at least, will hear NO National Anthem or a “National Anthem” from the NFL. Never and never again. Who’s on board with that?