Long before Frankie Beverly and Maze doublechecked their desire to exit a loving relationship, nearly a century before the Cash Money Records’ authoritarian regime kicked off the 21st century, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People devised a 100-year plan to rankle the fragile sensibilities of Caucasian crybabies across the country:
They were going to sing a song.
Following in the footsteps of other people who enjoy cleansing their palate with the n-word, failed white person Kari Lake‘s tear ducts became the latest to be pried opened by the combination of words and musical notes known as the Black national anthem. After refusing to stand during the playing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony for the NFL’s season opener last week, Lake told Fox News “America has only ONE National Anthem and that Anthem is color blind.”
I know, it doesn’t make sense. Racism is stupid.
To help others understand this pearl-clutching caucasity, theGrio put together this quick explainer for why this particular song infuriates white people more than Colin Kaepernick kneeling while reading excerpts from “The 1619 Project” to Barack Obama’s tan suit.
What is the Black national anthem?
Originally written in 1900 as a poem about surviving the white supremacist terrorism of Reconstruction, James Weldon Johnson set the words of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to his brother’s music for a children’s choir celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The song soon became a staple…
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