Justice. Equality. Justice. Responsibility. Anti racism. Compensation. Colin Kaepernick’s job.
These are the things Black America has been asking for … forever. Well, aside from Kaepernick’s employment status. We’ve only been asking for her black ball to end since it started more than three years ago.
But instead of addressing problems you could easily fix; The NFL has decided that the best way to deal with injustice is … to play a song.
According to reports, “Raise every voice and sing“Which is the Black National Anthem, will be played before each game during Week 1 of next season before” The Star-Spangled Banner “.
The NFL really thinks the best way to honor victims of systemic racism is to play the holiest song of blacks before playing a national anthem that was written by a slave owner who is full of racist letters.
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Things like this are the reasons why Roger Goodell and Drew Brees’ apologies were a joke. Things like this also explain why Jay-Z’s deal with the league was nothing more than a selfish decision for personal gain. Because if Jay-Z were really behind the scenes “playing chess, not checkers”, he would not have allowed this to happen. He is being used. He is just a pawn.
The league also plans to honor victims of police brutality through helmet stickers, T-shirts, and public service announcements that will air throughout Week 1. However, the man who started this entire conversation within the NFL will be home. observing, as it is not yet listed.
In this time of “awakening” and “convenient awareness,” the NFL is determined to give us things we don’t want, rather than simply doing what we ask, like doing something about the fact that there are only three Black Head coaches and two managers. Black generals in a league that has more than 70 percent blacks and never had a majority black owner.
And if giving Kaepernick his job back is too much to ask right now, the league could step in and force Dan Snyder to rename his team in Washington, given that the pressure applied by Nike, FedEx and Pepsi It could make it finally happen sooner rather than later.
In 2009, players didn’t even have to go out for the anthem. But that was before the US Department of Defense and the National Guard started cutting million-dollar checks in the name of patriotism. In 2015, We learned that the Department of Defense gave the teams $ 6.8 million in taxpayer money to “honor” the military at NFL games and events.
These are the forms of the NFL, as they are about to hijack the Black National Anthem in the same way that the Players’ Coalition kidnapped the Kaepernick movement and Corporate America “Columbus” on June 15 of last month.
Below you’ll find all the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and put to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, in 1899. Almost every African American can sing the first verse. Some know the second. Still less do they know the three stanzas.
And since the most popular sports league in America has decided that singing this song before some soccer games will act as a Wite-Out to cover the original sin, racism of this country, I think it’s time for the rest from you start learning the words since the NFL thinks that the letters are more powerful than the legislation.
They have on it.
Raise every voice and sing
Until the earth and the sky sound
Ring with the harmonies of freedom;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the sky of the list,
Let it resonate strong like 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 began,
Let’s move forward until victory is won.
Stony the path we tread,
Bitter the punishment bar,
I felt in the days when the unborn hope had died;
However, with a constant rhythm,
Don’t have our feet tired
Do you see the place that our parents sighed for?
We have traveled a path that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our way through the blood of the sacrificed,
Out of the gloomy past,
Until now we’re finally
Where the white glow of our bright star is projected.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears
You who have brought us here on the road;
You who have by your power
Led us to the light
Keep us on the road forever, we pray.
So that our feet do not stray from the places, our God, where we met you,
Lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world forget you;
Shadow under your hand
May we be forever
Faithful to our God,
True to our homeland.
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