Conservatives Furious After Vanessa Williams Sings 'Black National Anthem' At Capitol 4th Event

THIS IS BAD. Different Races will have their own holidays? Their own Anthems? The new SEGREGATION. Vanessa Williams to sing 'Black national anthem' for Capitol Fourth celebrationhttps://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1411452592459296771\u00a0\u2026

— Greg Kelly (@Greg Kelly) 1625352160

"Black National Anthem" the white Democrat that was responsible for slavery & segregation has never wanted blacks to integrate themselves into American society & see themselves as part of the American fabric b/c their political model is based on keeping blacks segregated & angry

— Melissa Tate (@Melissa Tate) 1625338393

We have one national anthem\u2026pic.twitter.com/pLFbB28OIJ

— Steve Cortes (@Steve Cortes) 1625340551

How'd you get to your BIG age and not know about "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"\nDid you never go to church, or any Black function?

— SPN Drama never ends, it goes on and on my friends (@SPN Drama never ends, it goes on and on my friends) 1625344248

What if somebody told you the song was first a poem in celebration of President Lincoln, and was first called the 'Black National Anthem' in 1919. Would you then want to talk about US history up to, circa 1919, and decades thereafter, to understand the context?

— BlackPhysicists (@BlackPhysicists) 1625344212

Your definitions of 'Black' and 'Black African country' seem fascinating. Tell us more.

— BlackPhysicists (@BlackPhysicists) 1625344716

It's been called that and sung in America for over 100 yrs and NOW you have a problem with it

— geddaqueen (@geddaqueen) 1625339653

Bigots out here mad because their mayonnaise dripping, melanin deficient, culturally incompetent behinds just found out there\u2019s a Black National Anthem, \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing.\u2019\n\nIt was published in 1905, 116 years ago. \n \nWhite supremacists are so stupid.

— Bishop Talbert Swan (@Bishop Talbert Swan) 1625371880

It\u2019s just one of the delicious ironies of life that the Star Spangled Banner, which became the National Anthem because one of our most white nationalist presidents liked his daughter\u2019s recorded version, commemorates the war of 1812 that produced the first sacking of the Capitol.https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1411420122216951817\u00a0\u2026

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1625355835

Here\u2019s a good history of the National Anthem (which has only been that since Congress ok\u2019d it in 1931, affirming Woodrow Wilson\u2019s 1916 executive order. Of course, the Daughters of the Confederacy make their usual appearance... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/10/18/star-spangled-banner-racist-national-anthem/\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/PUgEIl2kI4

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1625355836

Luckily she didn\u2019t have to sing the third stanza\u2026 not sure even Whitney could have fixed that\u2026pic.twitter.com/w4rWz7O6z2

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1625355838

I've read this stanza before, but I never put together that the "free" people referenced in the song are contrasted against those who were slaves... as opposed to those who are free from, say, tyranny.\n\nThe song is literally & exclusively a celebration of the non-slave population

— Donald Dagenais (@Donald Dagenais) 1625356850