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It was a poem and song written for Lincoln. It was adopted during "Red Summer" in 1919 when it was clear white people didn't want to share their country with black people.
They tore Lincoln's statue down this past year didn't they?
It was The Weeknd. As you probably heard announced a gazillion times in the run up to this rather high profile event. He was great, as usual. Not sure what purpose it serves for people to post feigned ignorance like it’s some weird badge of honor.
Announced? I never heard anything about who was performing tonight. And there's nothing great about a performer who can't sing to where you can understand what is said. Never heard of him before and I am not impressed with him.
Well jeez, that's racist. Another leftist example of hypocrisy. Let's be inclusive here--can we add the Norwegian national anthem as well since I guess I'm just as "Norwegian-American" as most blacks are "African-American." Probably more so. So why am I being left out? Where's the inclusion?
Perhaps all of us should be claiming to be XXXXX-Americans and demand that we include a bunch of customs from the "old country." We have English-Americans, Hungarian-Americans, Finnish-Americans, Russian-Americans, Romanian-Americans, Indonesian-Americans, Chilean-Americans, Andorran-Americans, etc, etc, etc; and that would be if ANY of your ancestors were anything besides Native Americans. I'm Norwegian-Danish-Icelandic-French-Irish-English American. Where is my national anthem?
That has nothing to do with customs from an old country, leftism, racism, or hypocrisy but a song that’s about a century old.
Many things that we consider American today, believe it or not we’re not actually American at all to begin with.
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