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There might not be a more polarizing pre-event song these days than “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is also referred to as the “Black National Anthem.” The MAGA crowd tends to hate it with a passion. Just about everyone else, it seems, is unbothered by it.
There rarely seems to be a point when folks meet in the middle in on it, and Thursday might have been about as close as you will see things get there. The NFL trotted out a choir to sing the song and ..
. well, it seems, just about everyone wasn’t happy with what they saw. “‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ sung by a bunch of white folks?” one person wrote on X.
“Interesting choice, @NFL.” “NFL really made ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ ..
. PALATABLE for the Trump supporters this year,” another wrote. “They done white washed Lift Every Voice and Sing,” another person wrote.
MAGA is big mad that the NFL had a choir sing Lift Every Voice and Sing, "the Black national anthem," for Draft Day. Will they ever stop crying about that song? 🤣 pic.twitter.
com/z933AcM2Hv “How in the world did they gentrify ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing?’” anther wrote. “They really got barely 3 black people in this choir singing Lift Every Voice and Sing??” another wrote. “They ruined the vibe of it.
Boooooo.” “MAGA is big mad that the NFL had a choir sing Lift Every Voice and Sing, ‘the Black National Anthem,’ for Draft Day,” another person wrote on X. “Will they ever stop crying about that song?” Those were just some of the many responses from the folks who seem to embrace the idea of having the song before events and look for it.
They were, obviously, not pleased with it. And then there were the folks who were not fans of the song to begin with. “I’m sorry but why is this necessary Lift Every Voice and Sing??” one person wrote on X.
Only one true Anthem.” “Listening to this Choir Sing the ‘Black National Anthem’ lift every voice at the NFL draft..
.” another wrote. “Stupid Anthem and it sounded Awful @NFL @nflnetwork.
We have 1 National Anthem!” “Joke,” another wrote. “Just turned it on ESPN. “I was excited to watch the draft.
Then I was asked to watch a ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ F that. Adios NFL.
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