NEWS & OPINION ROUNDUP (2 JULY 2008) THE "BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM" EDITION
2 July 2008
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Denver’s City Council president is getting hammered with hate-filled messages in response to Tuesday’s surprise performance of the “Black National Anthem” by a jazz singer during a city event. You can contact him and let him know how you feel: Michael B. Hancock - Councilman District 11 - 303-331-3872 michael.hancock@denvergov.org Fax: 303-331-3874 More from Michelle Malkin - Moonbattery has more - Slapstick Politics has lots including the video…
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And, uh…where, exactly is “Black” on the map? I’ve looked and looked…can’t find it.
Keep looking, Obama will show us Jan ‘09
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I happen to very much like, appreciate and enjoy both singing and hearing sung,
“Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won”
I have often scheduled it for singing in patriotic or “God and Country” meetings, etc.
But. It is not a substitute for the National Anthem, which includes the verse so infrequently sung,
“Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
Neither song need stand in conflict with the other. Each has its own proper place. I do regret that “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” is somehow known as an exclusively “black” song, when its lyrics should be singable by every true American, and I regret as well the idea that the Star Spangled Banner is soehow viewed by some racist bigots (on both sides of an arbitrary skin color divide) as the “white” National anthem. That such a view persists only serves the purpose of racial bigots of any and all skin tones.
What people, standing in sight of long-desired liberty, could not embrace the song,
“God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD,
True to our native land”
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