#1 2012-12-06 12:23:56
Here is a story about students right to remain seated during the pledge of allegiance. However, during an interview with the principal, he casually drops a line saying there was also a playing of the African American national anthem. The reporter never asks him about this tidbit, but continues with questions about whether the kids must stand or may sit. What is the African American national anthem?
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#2 2012-12-06 13:15:09
Yes, it's insidious and filled with dangerous lyrics urging blacks to be hopeful about the future. Who knows what the title, Lift Every Voice and Sing, really means?
Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heav'n ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the list’ning 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.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod
felt in the days when hope unborn had died
yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our fathers sighed
we have come over a way that with tears has been watered
we have come treading a path through the blood of the slaughtered
out of the gloomy past till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
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 on the path we pray
lest our feet stray from the places oh god where we met thee
lest our heart 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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#3 2012-12-06 15:05:40
Now That be what the fuck I is talkin bout.
Fuck dat white man's anthem bout war and shit. Dis a good won bout rayshal strife.
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#4 2012-12-06 15:09:27
big black bitch wrote:
Now That be what the fuck I is talkin bout.
Fuck dat white man's anthem bout war and shit. Dis a good won bout rayshal strife.
Is it sock-puppet season?
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#5 2012-12-06 15:18:50
I aint no fuckin sock munkey bitch. what tha fuck you problim
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#6 2012-12-06 15:31:31
big black bitch wrote:
I aint no fuckin sock munkey bitch. what tha fuck you problim
Do tell.
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#7 2012-12-06 16:04:13
That wasn't me either.
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#8 2012-12-06 16:10:54
WilberCuntLicker wrote:
That wasn't me either.
I know who it is. You're entirely off the hook, my dear foot fetishist of the North Country.
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#10 2012-12-06 17:15:22
Taint wrote:
Yes, it's insidious and filled with dangerous lyrics urging blacks to be hopeful about the future. Who knows what the title, Lift Every Voice and Sing, really means?
OK, it's a nice song, but why are they playing it in place of the national anthem at a public school? And, why do they even call it a national anthem?
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#11 2012-12-06 17:35:34
phreddy wrote:
Taint wrote:
Yes, it's insidious and filled with dangerous lyrics urging blacks to be hopeful about the future. Who knows what the title, Lift Every Voice and Sing, really means?
OK, it's a nice song, but why are they playing it in place of the national anthem at a public school? And, why do they even call it a national anthem?
Really? I gotta explain these things? First, to the best of my knowledge, it isn't played in lieu of the US national anthem, although it is often sung along with the national anthem. I may be wrong but my limited experience with having heard it sung one or two times, it was in addition, not instead of the Star Spangled Banner. Second, the name of the song is Lift Every Voice and Sing. It is not titled the Black National Anthem. It is referred to as such because many, apparently, felt it captured the sentiment of the black community as a whole. Plenty of communities have embraced particular songs because they said something about that community.
Now. Class is over. Please have your parents sign your permission slips to attend the field trip to Rizzo's Adult Video World and don't forget to bring hand sanitizer. Also, remember to bring in your report on the video we watched Monday, The History of White People in America. It's due tomorrow. No exceptions. Class dismissed.
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#12 2012-12-06 17:49:49
Taint wrote:
phreddy wrote:
Taint wrote:
Yes, it's insidious and filled with dangerous lyrics urging blacks to be hopeful about the future. Who knows what the title, Lift Every Voice and Sing, really means?
OK, it's a nice song, but why are they playing it in place of the national anthem at a public school? And, why do they even call it a national anthem?
Really? I gotta explain these things? First, to the best of my knowledge, it isn't played in lieu of the US national anthem, although it is often sung along with the national anthem. I may be wrong but my limited experience with having heard it sung one or two times, it was in addition, not instead of the Star Spangled Banner. Second, the name of the song is Lift Every Voice and Sing. It is not titled the Black National Anthem. It is referred to as such because many, apparently, felt it captured the sentiment of the black community as a whole. Plenty of communities have embraced particular songs because they said something about that community.
Now. Class is over. Please have your parents sign your permission slips to attend the field trip to Rizzo's Adult Video World and don't forget to bring hand sanitizer. Also, remember to bring in your report on the video we watched Monday, The History of White People in America. It's due tomorrow. No exceptions. Class dismissed.
This doesn't please me. May I do an independent project on the plight of black people in Canada? I'm thinking of calling it: Snow-Bunnies: The Frost at the End of the Freedom Train.
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#13 2012-12-06 18:15:48
Taint wrote:
Really? I gotta explain these things?
Well, the principal in the article said on video that the class said the pledge of allegiance and played the African American national anthem. No mention of THE national anthem. I wouldn't refer to any song as the African National Anthem for the same reason I wouldn't call one the white or gay or female national anthem. It's not "national" if it only expresses the aspirations of a single group.
For the record, I am against saying the pledge or singing the national anthem at school every day. Every citizen of the US should have the opportunity to say the pledge of allegiance when they turn 18. That pledge should be good until and if they should ever renounce it. Making it a rote recital takes away from its purpose and importance.
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#14 2012-12-06 18:16:43
phreddy wrote:
Taint wrote:
Yes, it's insidious and filled with dangerous lyrics urging blacks to be hopeful about the future. Who knows what the title, Lift Every Voice and Sing, really means?
OK, it's a nice song, but why are they playing it in place of the national anthem at a public school? And, why do they even call it a national anthem?
Africa IS a country, just ask Sarah Palin.
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#15 2012-12-06 18:42:19
phreddy wrote:
Taint wrote:
Really? I gotta explain these things?
Well, the principal in the article said on video that the class said the pledge of allegiance and played the African American national anthem. No mention of THE national anthem. I wouldn't refer to any song as the African National Anthem for the same reason I wouldn't call one the white or gay or female national anthem. It's not "national" if it only expresses the aspirations of a single group.
For the record, I am against saying the pledge or singing the national anthem at school every day. Every citizen of the US should have the opportunity to say the pledge of allegiance when they turn 18. That pledge should be good until and if they should ever renounce it. Making it a rote recital takes away from its purpose and importance.
Go re-read the article and pay attention this time. The students did not wish to stand for the Pledge, the students also played the "African American National Anthem" and were punished for it.
Teenagers, go figure...
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#16 2012-12-06 23:16:39
Shouldn't it be called the "National Anthematerrious-Ladarious-Kotexia-Prince?
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#17 2012-12-07 03:26:14
phreddy wrote:
For the record, I am against saying the pledge or singing the national anthem at school every day. Every citizen of the US should have the opportunity to say the pledge of allegiance when they turn 18. That pledge should be good until and if they should ever renounce it. Making it a rote recital takes away from its purpose and importance.
I recited the Peruvian equivalent until I was 7. The US pledge was way worse for archaic language and abject lunacy. I can still declaim pages of other nonsense from memory verbatim but not that. Learning the Star Spangled Banner confirmed my suspicions national loyalties are a crock. [There's a far more detailed story here but I'm tired.]
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#19 2012-12-07 06:07:30
choad wrote:
phreddy wrote:
For the record, I am against saying the pledge or singing the national anthem at school every day. Every citizen of the US should have the opportunity to say the pledge of allegiance when they turn 18. That pledge should be good until and if they should ever renounce it. Making it a rote recital takes away from its purpose and importance.
I recited the Peruvian equivalent until I was 7. The US pledge was way worse for archaic language and abject lunacy. I can still declaim pages of other nonsense from memory verbatim but not that. Learning the Star Spangled Banner confirmed my suspicions national loyalties are a crock. [There's a far more detailed story here but I'm tired.]
As I've written elsewhere (but here) before, I first refused to groan Oh Canada! and lemon-pledge the Queen (excuse me for waxing eloquent) in grade the third. It was a formative year, that third one, (which I first mentioned at the end of the previous sentence), and one in which I first decided that loyalty, submission, and even, usually, ambition, were the traits of slaves. [There's a more detailed story here too, but likewise unto sleep must I go, that tomorrow I might be even more beautiful than I am today.] 
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#20 2012-12-07 11:16:24
Emmeran wrote:
Go re-read the article and pay attention this time. The students did not wish to stand for the Pledge, the students also played the "African American National Anthem" and were punished for it.
No Em. Once again you've got it wrong. Here is an updated story. The kids who got in trouble were refusing to stand for the African American national anthem, which was played over the loudspeakers in the classrooms every morning.
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#21 2012-12-07 15:29:04
Lift Every Voice and Sing just isn't appropriate for a school setting. It belongs in church and at gatherings of disgusting smelly violent Homo erectus hominids.
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#22 2012-12-07 18:06:14
phreddy wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
Go re-read the article and pay attention this time. The students did not wish to stand for the Pledge, the students also played the "African American National Anthem" and were punished for it.
No Em. Once again you've got it wrong. Here is an updated story. The kids who got in trouble were refusing to stand for the African American national anthem, which was played over the loudspeakers in the classrooms every morning.
Changing stories, nice.
Nothing to see here folks, move on...
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