{"id":3051,"date":"2020-07-13T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2020-07-13T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:15:38","slug":"lift-every-voice-and-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/lift-every-voice-and-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift Every Voice and Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9k0xz6mKCJM\">John Legend<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8QK4p22LHtw\">Aretha Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uyZkRgQ4ZnQ\">Howard University Choir<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Black National Anthem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past couple of weeks, I learned something new.  There is a song many call \u201cThe Black National Anthem\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Lift Every Voice and Sing\u00a0<\/em>is a beautiful, \u201cold church hymn\u201d type of song, written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson.\u00a0\u00a0Johnson was an early leader of the NAACP, an author, educator and lawyer from Jacksonville, Florida.\u00a0\u00a0Born in 1871, as a young adult he spent a life-altering summer teaching the children of former slaves in backwoods Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NAACP adopted\u00a0<em>Lift Every Voice and Sing<\/em>\u00a0as their anthem in 1917.  The first line of the song, like many church hymns, is the title:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lift ev&#8217;ry voice and sing<br>&#8216;Til earth and heaven ring<br>Ring with the harmonies of Liberty<br><br><\/em>The lyrics describe the trials of black people in the United States.\u00a0\u00a0It speaks of the past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We have come over a way that with tears has been watered<br>We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered<br>Out from the gloomy past.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sings of hope for the future:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8216;Til now we stand at last<br>Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And faith in God that has carried them through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God of our weary years<br>God of our silent tears<br>Thou who has brought us thus far on the way<br>Thou who has by Thy might<br>Led us into the light<br>Keep us forever in the path, we pray.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">National Football 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Beautiful,&nbsp;<\/em>another anthem of the United States, has been performed at football games for years, including at the 2020 Super Bowl.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Battle Hymn of the Republic,&nbsp;<\/em>the unofficial anthem of the Union Army in the Civil War, has been altered to become the \u201cfight song\u201d for the University of Georgia football team.&nbsp;&nbsp;And at every high school and collegiate game, the crowd stands for the playing of that institution\u2019s alma mater.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s not like we don\u2019t honor other songs besides the&nbsp;<em>Star Spangled Banner&nbsp;<\/em>at our sporting events.&nbsp;&nbsp;We do it all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Black Players, White Audience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixty-eight percent of NFL players are black.\u00a0\u00a0It is an important point of contact between blacks players and white spectators in America.\u00a0\u00a0When San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a black man, 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