ACCORDING TO A USA TODAY1 release, Starting with the nationally televised regular-season opener between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 10, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”2 also known as the Black national anthem, will be performed before every Week 1 kickoff, before "The Star-Spangled Banner," according to a person familiar with ongoing discussions. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because plans have not yet been finalized and announced by NFL officials. (Emphasis mine)
TIMES THEY ARE A’CHANGIN’
The Associated Press (AP), the “final authority” for many in the media, has by fiat determined that black, when used in conjunction with people of color must be initial capital3, at least for “black.” I will assume that “brown” must have an initial capital as well.
BUT, per the AP, “white” is lower case, small “w.”
I suspect AP will make an exception when “white” precedes the word “extremists” to emphasize the (lack of) color of these particular extremists.
The AP article notes that
- “Not having a capital letter has felt disrespectful,” said David Lanham, director of communications for the Brooking Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. “There is a shared cultural identity with Black Americans and that goes through our shared experiences. That also goes to the lack of geographic history as a result of slavery.”
I don’t mind the change to initial cap for black people, but I DO object to the selectiveness of AP’s fiat — let each individual racial attribute be capitalized: Black, Brown, Red* White, Yellow*.
- * Both “Red” and “Yellow” are incorrectly applied to American Indians and Orientals.
AP needs to capitalize Bi-Sexual (two capitals!), Gay, as in homosexual men, vs. happy people, Lesbian, Queer, Transvestite and Tranny (vs. “tranny” as slang for a transmission). How it intends to capitalize “?” could be a major problem for AP.
Straight people, that is, anyone who is other than in an LGBTQ? category can remain lower case. No one cares, anyway.
- By the way, will someone please explain why homosexual males are “gay” (OK, ‘Gay’) while homosexual females are Lesbians? Are all the women from the Isle of Lesbos lesbians?4
Back to the anthem
Since the Democrats lost the election in 2016, the country has been driven asunder.
Leftists on one extreme, White (it’s my blog, I capitalize what I want) Nationalists on the other extreme.
Rather than civil discussion of differences — differences can be good — we have become a nation of screamers. Once tolerant of differences, we now are intolerant bigots, hate mongers.
That may be a rhetorical question: Can those who so hate America, who want to destroy the good with the bad, come to terms with each other long enough to create a pennant?
Black Power.
Democrat,
Rainbow.
Most Americans, those who are born in the USA and those who came here for one reason or another, legal immigrants and illegal immigrants alike, believe America still is a better place to live, to improve their lives, than almost anyplace else on the planet. If anyone in America disagrees with this, they can leave; go anyplace that will have them. Unlike totalitarian countries, unless a person is a wanted criminal, he or she may leave the country at any time for any place that will accept them.
There are more than 51 — FIFTY ONE — countries with Muslim populations of 50% or more.5
There are 51 — FIFTY ONE — African states with predominately black regimes. 6
As it happens, white (White?) Americans, including future presidents James Monroe and Andrew Jackson were among the members of the American Colonization Society formed to create a nation for free blacks to return to Africa. This was 50 years before the U.S. would abolish slavery. Over the next three decades, the society secured land in West Africa and shipped people to the colony, which became the nation of Liberia in 1847.7
Lincoln actively pursued a re-colonization well after signing the Emancipation Proclamation. 8
According to 2014 estimates, more than 3,000 African-Americans and people of Caribbean descent live in Ghana, a country of about 26 million people. Ghana welcomes the immigrants.9
According to the BBC10
- Having vowed to quit the US after being the victim of what he believed was a racially motivated arrest by police officers, African American Obadele Kambon relocated to Ghana in 2008 - and has never looked back.
Dr Kambon has now built a successful life in the place that was once at the heart of the slave trade, and enjoys the freedom which, he says, was denied to him in the US, his birthplace.
Bottom line A Black or Muslim who finds life in America unsatisfactory, has many options to relocate. Leftists — Communists and Socialists, a/k/a “progressives” — likewise have many counties that would welcome them.11
India’s Bollywood might welcome Hollywood’s malcontents; the people who promised — then failed to deliver — that if this or that person won an election, they would leave the country. Unfortunately that was a lie; they still are here fomenting dissension and sowing hatred wherever they find fertile ground such as colleges.
There is no “perfect” society.
A totalitarian government would suit people who are blind to other’s opinions. For them, egalitarianism is extended to those who either believe as they believe or who are subservient to their wishes — slaves and illegals who do their master’s bidding in silence.
Democracy, which America almost has, is for people who are able to civilly discuss issues; who can come to a consensus or compromise that is acceptable — even grudgingly — to all concerned.
If someone wants to play a so-called “black national anthem” they can do it AFTER the U.S.’ National anthem. As far as I know, the U.S. is NOT a “black nation” to have a “black national anthem.” The U.S. is a nation of many people, all of whom bleed red.
Frankly, for my part I would prefer a number of singable songs in lieu of Mr. Key’s effort. Key is unacceptable to “progressive” blacks since he owned slaves in Maryland.12 God Bless America (except this offends atheists), America the Beautiful, or Woody Guthrie’s This land is your land would be my picks. Mr. Guthrie, to the best of my knowledge, never owned slaves. (Wouldn’t Guthrie’s song “rock the stadiums.”)
America has had a good run. But like Rome, ancient Greece, England, the former Soviet Union, and all the rest, its time may have arrived.
If civil discourse cannot be resumed, if people continue to disrupt normal life and, worse, riot and destroy properties in their own neighborhoods, I fear for the nation.
I would not want to be 20 years old again.
Sources
1. USA Today: https://tinyurl.com/y9yarrj3
2. Black anthem: https://tinyurl.com/yh2yr4tt
3. AP fiat: https://tinyurl.com/ybr7onnd
4. Lesbians and Lesbos: https://tinyurl.com/yarbrm2g
5. Muslim controlled countries: https://tinyurl.com/yam352ly
6. Black controlled countries: https://tinyurl.com/uafymqm
7. Liberia: https://tinyurl.com/yd9yrvfx
8. Lincoln: https://tinyurl.com/y2r78yd7
9. Ghana: https://tinyurl.com/ycnco7rn
10. BBC: https://tinyurl.com/y2w3ouax
11. Places for “progressives”: https://tinyurl.com/ooc6efa
12. Key: https://tinyurl.com/yan8dop8
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