Posted by The original poem over 120 years ago that would later be adopted as the Black National Anthem was really a soft prophetic warning of the downfall of this two faced nation. Had the leaders of America acted on this prophetic poem, truly understanding the pain that gave birth to it, it would never have had to become an Anthem. We would be glad to only have one anthem. But America got worse ever since that poem was written, particularly during the dark war years from the late 1910s to the late 1940s.
I respect Stephen A Smith bringing attention to the tone deaf outrage against the singing of the Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl not long ago. Because of who he works for and the diverse audience he serves, he had to appear balanced in his criticism of those who have this dismissive anger.
However, he then scolded our community because there are too many of us who claim “racism” without evidence. He was specifically addressing those of us who were outraged at Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News journalist who is now a conservative Podcaster and show host on Sirius XM, and a long time acquaintance of SAS. He was brave enough to defend her, though I’m sure many in our community took umbrage to that. But that’s not that big a deal.
Though I certainly agree many of us sometimes do cry racism too loosely in a way that diminishes its power, I find the tone deaf dismissiveness of our horrific history to be more problematic.
We wouldn’t have so many who holler “racism” if our people weren’t destroyed by those who used the full weight of the government and Big Business to crush us after stealing our labor and properties. Which is worse: crying “racism” with no violence, or being racist and destroying properties and lives, never restoring any of these horrors? I think wiser people know the answer.
Before I continue, this post is not written in a spirit of anger, but in a calm, rational and rightful indignation. No one is saying that every non black person who hates the Black National Anthem is racist. At best, many are just woefully ignorant of what really happened to us in history. At worst, some of are truly hateful of us simply because of the color of our skin, and the “nerve” of us to continue to seek financial justice for what happened to us. To expect us to make the distinction is a tall order, but we’ll do it anyway.
I find it rather peculiar that it’s acceptable if a white man declares a national anthem, but it’s disgusting if a black man declares one. It’s ok if they do it, but it’s a problem if I do it, as the song goes.
For those who hate this Anthem, did you know that the federal, state and local government bodies were actively involved in keeping us as a permanent underclass after so called slavery ended?
Did you know they were never got reparations? Our median incomes and net worth have remained relatively flat ever since. After being “freed,” we were just tossed to the streets with no income or savings. And they deliberately kept us in that state, even when we tried to pull ourselves up. What kind of sick society thinks a people can recover from that?
Did you know that the government was either a silent or active partner in supporting Jim Crow terrorism and destruction of our Black Wall Street cities around the country from the 1860s till the 1960s?
Did you know that our median incomes and net worth have been suppressed by design ever since the 1860s?
Did you know that between 1880 and 1925, we actually built an infrastructure against all odds that could have restored our generational wealth? But the federal, state and local governments systemically supported and silently endorsed the destruction of our efforts, and even encouraged the racist violence against our people to keep us “in our place?”
This country basically gave us the middle finger and told us to “get over it! You’re free and equal now” despite never restoring what they destroyed. That’s gaslighting at its worst.
So the anger against the Black National Anthem means nothing if you didn’t know all this, and if you don’t do your part to restore what was taken from us.
if all those who hate the Black National Anthem would learn and act on the truth of what happened to Black Wall Street in Tulsa and elsewhere, and understand that we NEVER got financially restored and are owed overdue reparations, then we’ll keep the Black Anthem to ourselves
Babylon is falling, United States of America, because America never atoned for its past horrors against our community. Most Americans not only are ignorant of Black History, but also the dark history of all the wars in the 1900s that were directly or indirectly engineered by America.
By this country’s own principles of macroeconomics, the nation’s elite said a healthy economy has to always maintain a 5% unemployment rate so that they could suppress wages. Guess who they chose to be sacrificial lambs to this love of money? It is no accident that our people have been kept in these economic doldrums perpetually.
But now, the powerful demons who created this system are circling like vultures to destroy it and give power to the Far East. As of this post, our borders are being quietly invaded by sleeper cell agents from the East, not Latin Americans. Do you not think this is divine justice against this country, the most horrific massacre machine mankind ever created?
A nightmare will unfold here once that the transfer of power to the East is complete. If only America would repent and do right by those it victimized in the most cruel way, then it can avoid this dreadful fate. But as we see with how utterly dismissive America was regarding the simple singing of a harmless Anthem at the Super Bowl, it is a stiff necked, ignorant and heartless society, both left and right, liberal and conservative. So it’s downfall is locked in, just like her ignorance of its true history is locked into them.
Links:
We’re mad about the “black national anthem”? Really Megyn Kelly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ma4zU6MH4E
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” Performed by Andra Day at Super Bowl LVIII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUH82QSG7GY
[Some of the civil rights movement video clips came from here:]
Police Brutality During the Civil Rights Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IrjXz6IHDA
Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK’s Famous Montgomery Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBm48Scju9E
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEo7SZeUE9E
BLACK WALL STREET Durham, NC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lPMvHlNVsw
The lost neighborhood under New York’s Central Park (Vox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsWYOZ8iqM
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