Black National Anthem replaces Star-Spangled Banner

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Uploaded by on Jul 2, 2008

Singer Rene Marie performed the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which also is known as the "black national anthem," at Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address.

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  • I dont justify her singing it in place of the American national anthem but to diss the fact that we have one is a comment that could only be made by someone who does not understand the history of the people or the meaning of the song. You are obviously looking through a small window of experience, knowledge or compassion.

  • Let the reverse enslavement happen to white people for more than 200 years and see if there are no songs, books, poems or art created to enstill hope for a change. To say that you need a white anthem would assert the need for supremacy that you already have over monorities by sheer number and postions of power.

  • @or2169 ----That's ignorant to say that whites need a national anthem. African people did not ask to be brought to America and put in slavery and we did not ask to then be separted and made to beleive that we are not equal. The black anthem was born out of the separatism caused by white domination. If we were treated as equals from jump there would be no need to create a separate anthem.

  • this was a beautiful decision. and it needed to happen. 

  • @djibril202 racist against who exactly? just because something challenges white supremacy does not make it racist.

  • I appreciate the risk that this woman took to sing this song. and she sang it with everything that she had within her. I am proud that she went and did what was important to her. It saddens me that people don't see the beauty in it and are offened.

  • I'm a dark skin American frankly this was moment was tape in 2008. and you are only talking about it because a black person posted it on a social network. I don't even see the point why this video is being debated. The government is trying to take your internet freedom away while you bicker over a 3 year old video!

  • @or2169

    How is it racist? Anything racist in the lyrics? Or is it just the title that offends you?

  • @or2169

    Then you shouldn't have excluded the non-whites when you wrote it.

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