Should Sports Fans Stand During Our National Anthem?

[Tommy Tainant]

This should be played before every sporting event.

 

[Dadoalex]

You can if you want to

I have no respect for that song because it means nothing to me

So were you around when Key penned the poem?
When drunks were singing the tune?
When drunks adapted the tune to Key's poem?

No?


Then perhaps that song means nothing to you either.

 

[konradv]

I say, yes, this is our national anthem. But, it is not necessary to stand during other songs, which are not our national anthem. Other songs are NOT the national anthem.

Democrat criticizes Super Bowl crowd for not standing during Black national anthem

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Sunday criticized the Super Bowl crowd for not standing during the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” widely known as the Black national anthem. “Very very few stood at Super Bowl for ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’. The Negro National Anthem,” Cohen wrote in a...

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I don’t understand why it needs to be played at every game. This a leftover from WW II that never went away. Instead of the anthem being a song we honor at appropriate national occasions, it’s become something we have to endure at many large assemblies that have nothing to do with patriotism. It’s basically enforced patriotism, which isn’t patriotism at all.

 

[22lcidw]

No. What are the fascist gonna do, fine me if I don't stand. How about sloughing during the song, or talking while it's being blasted over the PA. What if I'm in line getting a hot dog?

Unless it's Jimi Hendrix's version........

When I was a lot younger at times, I would think that. A few years before I went into the service I stood because others did. The Viet Nam era was disruptive late 60's/early 70's. I then would notice older men standing with their hats off. Most were likely veterans. So out of respect for them I stood for a reason. We do not control our wars when they are really pushed. And although this is political, we have seen the money and equipment sent to Ukraine and of course people convinced again to be on one side or the other. Perhaps the national anthem needs to not be played anymore.

 

[IM2]

There is no such thing as a "black" national anthem. We have one national anthem - the Star Spangled Banner

There is such a thing as the black national anthem. When the American Anthem was created, blacks didn't count and until 1965 the Anthem was sung and blacks didn't count.

 

[Burgermeister]

The current anthem should be changed to the other song.

It's much better and more apropos.

Random bolding. Libs are not big substance over style people.

 

[Mac-7]

So were you around when Key penned the poem?
When drunks were singing the tune?
When drunks adapted the tune to Key's poem?

No?


Then perhaps that song means nothing to you either.

It means allowing ungrateful libs to act boorish toward hero’s who died protecting their freedom

 

[Mac-7]

There is such a thing as the black national anthem. When the American Anthem was created, blacks didn't count and until 1965 the Anthem was sung and blacks didn't count.

Agreed

There can be no black national anthem when there is no black nation

 

[Rawley]

There is such a thing as the black national anthem.

No there's not. There is one national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner.

36 U.S. Code § 301 - National anthem

www.law.cornell.edu

When the American Anthem was created, blacks didn't count and until 1965 the Anthem was sung and blacks didn't count.

You ignorance of history aside.

 

[BlindBoo]

When I was a lot younger at times, I would think that. A few years before I went into the service I stood because others did. The Viet Nam era was disruptive late 60's/early 70's. I then would notice older men standing with their hats off. Most were likely veterans. So out of respect for them I stood for a reason. We do not control our wars when they are really pushed. And although this is political, we have seen the money and equipment sent to Ukraine and of course people convinced again to be on one side or the other. Perhaps the national anthem needs to not be played anymore.

My father, a Korean vet, explained it to me perfectly when I was very young and I always stand during it, out of respect, however freedom to not stand is still paramount to the reason they fought, imo.

 

[IM2]

No there's not. There is one national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner.

36 U.S. Code § 301 - National anthem

www.law.cornell.edu

You ignorance of history aside.

There is indeed a Black National Anthem and my history is 100 percent correct.

 

[Dadoalex]

It means allowing ungrateful libs to act boorish toward hero’s who died protecting their freedom

That song says nothing about heroes.
Only about bombs and killing.I can understand your lust.

 

[Catsnmeters]

My thoughts are in the OP.

Thank you. I wondered if you believed in religious accomodations or not but quite frankly I am a shocked you don't support handicap exceptions.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Random bolding. Libs are not big substance over style people.

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It just says, "I need attention and if I can't get it by doing something useful and constructive, I'll force the reader give me that attention by shouting".

It is how leftist vermin find meaning.

.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I say, yes, this is our national anthem. But, it is not necessary to stand during other songs, which are not our national anthem. Other songs are NOT the national anthem.

Democrat criticizes Super Bowl crowd for not standing during Black national anthem

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Sunday criticized the Super Bowl crowd for not standing during the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” widely known as the Black national anthem. “Very very few stood at Super Bowl for ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’. The Negro National Anthem,” Cohen wrote in a...

www.yahoo.com

Should Sports Fans Stand During Our National Anthem?​

Mandatory? Why not. Then we can all give up our liberties and freedom.

 

[jotathought]

We need an anthem for every race group.

We already have that .. the Star Spangled Banner

 

[debbiedowner]

I don’t understand why it needs to be played at every game. This a leftover from WW II that never went away. Instead of the anthem being a song we honor at appropriate national occasions, it’s become something we have to endure at many large assemblies that have nothing to do with patriotism. It’s basically enforced patriotism, which isn’t patriotism at all.

If anything the national anthem should be "America the Beautiful"

Sometimes I stand and I don't give a shit who stands or who sits.
Black Anthem is a hymn and most in this thread doesn't know a damn thing how it came about.

 

[Rawley]

There is indeed a Black National Anthem and my history is 100 percent correct.

Good luck with that

 

[TheGreatSatan]

We already have that .. the Star Spangled Banner

That's only for white people. Just ask a democrat. That's why we need a black anthem.

 

[jotathought]

That's only for white people. Just ask a democrat. That's why we need a black anthem.

While I understand the sarcasm .. what makes it white only?