From WPDE:
NFL to perform ‘Black national anthem’ alongside Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl 58
by JACKSON WALKER | The National DeskFri, January 19th 2024
LAS VEGAS (TND) — Super Bowl LVIII will feature a performance of Lift Every Voice and Sing, dubbed the “Black national anthem,” alongside performances of the Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful, the NFL announced Thursday.
It’s a pleasant but rather dull Christian hymn composed in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and his brother. It’s gotten trotted out a lot by the authorities during the Racial Reckoning, but it’s not as if black people care for it all that much.
Performing the song will be RnB singer Andra Day, who is best known for her triple-platinum song “Rise Up.” …
In 1919, the song was dubbed the “Negro national anthem” by the NAACP and went on to be commonly called the “Black national anthem,” NPR reported.
What should be the White National Anthem played at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas?
Judging from the current tastes of white football fans, such as the 110,000 fans who sing it after every home victory by national champion U. of Michigan, it should be “Mr. Brightside” by Las Vegas band The Killers:
What do they play at Ohio State after they win? Radiohead’s “Creep”?
110,000 people, most of them alumni or students of one of America’s great state flagship universities, shouting a song of jealously and self-loathing to celebrate a triumph is pretty weird. But white people are pretty W.E.I.R.D., which is what makes them artistically more interesting.
