The days when the Super Bowl was a unifying experience when all Americans regardless of race, class, color or creed could join together for the penultimate sporting event of the year may be a relic of the past with Sunday’s big game saturated by racial overtones thanks to the NFL.
Aside from the narrative of being a historic event, the first game pitting two black quarterbacks against each other for the Vince Lombardi Trophy, there was the soaring rendition of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” or as it is more widely known, the “Black National Anthem” which was performed prior to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” America’s REAL national anthem.
While the NFL slyly timed the alternate anthem prior to just before when most folks would tune in at 6:30 ET for the nationally televised broadcast, it generated much controversy anyway and the reaction of one prominent Republican, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake who was in attendance at State Farm Stadium near Phoenix spoke volumes.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT CITIZENS JOURNAL Please keep us publishing – DONATE
