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NFL kicks off new season with ‘Black National Anthem’

September 6, 2024 | | Print Article

The NFL kicked off the new season just like it ended the last one, with a Kansas City Chiefs win, plenty of Taylor Swift, and the “Black National Anthem” too.

In a nationally televised Thursday night game, the red juggernaut opened their bid for a third consecutive Super Bowl victory with a thrilling win against the Baltimore Ravens that came down to the last moments. Hours before the final gun sounded, the league continued with its practice of featuring the dueling anthems.

Prior to the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” the real and only national anthem, the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was belted out by Grammy Award winner Tasha Cobbs Leonard, stirring controversy over the NFL’s ongoing embrace of divisive racial politics.

Originally dubbed the “Negro National Anthem” by the NAACP in 1919, the song was “prominently used as a rallying cry during the Civil Rights Movement,” according to the organization. The NFL has featured the song at big games since the George Floyd “Summer of Love” when the NFL, like the rest of corporate America, embraced the racist Black Lives Matter agenda.

X users expressed outrage over the NFL’s decision to stick with the divisiveness that’s been an NFL fixture since Colin Kaepernick’s disrespectful kneeling during the “Star Spangled Banner” which many now have been brainwashed into believing is racist.

Once the “Black National Anthem” set the tone, the contest itself introduced America to the NFL’s new kickoff rule, the latest change to the traditional NFL to be implemented under the tenure of “woke” Commissioner Roger Goodell, and viewers were treated to a duel between superstar Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Ravens’ dynamic dual-threat Lamar Jackson.

In a game that would feature plenty of shots of the anti-Trump pop diva Swift in the stands and her loutish boyfriend Travis Kelce on the field, the Chiefs prevailed in a 27-20 nailbiter with the officials once again being the determining factor by overruling a potentially tying touchdown by the Ravens in the final seconds.

Corporate America is finally beginning to acknowledge the damage that DEI has done to their brands by dialing down the championing of racial discrimination, but not the NFL.

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