The Lauren Boebert Saying Crazy Things Thread
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Hey I just want to point out how funny this is. I laughed a lot.
Historically speaking, both.
What does it take to be a “national anthem”? Is it an act of congress or just something a song is called? Boebert said we only have one national anthem. I agree. Some people call Die Hard a Christmas movie others believe Mormons are Christian. I tend to disagree with those two statements.
At the end of the day, none of the songs performed at the Super Bowl made any difference. It’s all a piece of entertainment and I guess some people enjoy bitching about “wokeness” so I guess maybe the NFL succeeded in this portion as well.
I'd say normalizing the performance of something that's very commonly referred to as the Black National Anthem right before the start of our nation's premier cultural event is the kind of big push that would be necessary to make it so.
We don't have to try and pretend that that's not what's happening just because Congress hasn't yet passed a resolution that's made it official. It's clearly race-exclusive, inherently divisive and increasingly entrenched. Not a good combination in my opinion. It will now always be a thing before the Super Bowl. And if it's always a thing before the Super Bowl, why wouldn't it always be a thing at any other event....unless any other event is racist?
The calls for the performance of the Black National Anthem alongside or even instead of our current national anthem at other events will come. I'll bookmark this post so I can say I told you so when they do.
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Why would that be an issue for you?
If you don't want to hear the song then turn off the TV. Change the channel. Go in the other room. Go for a walk. Read a book.
Because per post #142, I only dropped in to question whether Lauren Boebert's related tweet in post #106 is actually her saying a crazy thing per the topic of this thread.
What does that have to do with its performance on national TV a few minutes before the Super Bowl?
Ok. And if those putting on the event care to do so, is that a problem? If they choose not to, is that a problem?
To me, if the NFL decides to play the Black National Anthem at every single game, I have no problem with it. If they choose never to play it ever again I would probably wonder at the decision but at the end of the day, I’m still watching.
And if the Boeberts of the country don’t like it and want to boycott, I’m fine with it. Nobody is forcing anyone to watch anything. I actually kind of get a kick out of it because I think a lot of people who boycotted the NFL last time didn’t really. They said they did but in the end, boycotts and activism feels like sacrifice and why sacrifice if all ya gotta do is change the channel or drop a deuce for a few minutes before kickoff?
But if they do feel so put off and decide to actually boycott, hats off to them. Vote with your pocketbook/remote control. 100% support their right to do so.
Stop it. “Raise Every Voice and Sing” absolutely is not race exclusive or inherently divisive. Not one verse, not one line, not one word. Saying otherwise is a prime example of why “wokeness” is a good thing.
Excellent. All has been acknowledged by the left in this thread and we're simply back to my original point.
I asked in post #107 of this, the "The Lauren Boebert Saying Crazy Things Thread" if anything in this tweet is actually crazy. In post #108 you said "Yes it is." And then in post #110 you said "Who said anything was a second national anthem?" And now here we are. You're even calling it the Black National Anthem.
I understand why you're saying that but it's manifestly not true.
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Much better to hear Chris Stapleton belt out out ONE TRUE NATIONAL ANTHEM. A good, honest, hardworking and non-woke white man.
Oh, he’s a BLM activist? Oops.
When they find this out the GQP is going to turn on him.
Oh, he’s a BLM activist? Oops.
When they find this out the GQP is going to turn on him.
Making a point of singing it alongside our nation's recognized National Anthem and blacks saying it's the "Black National Anthem" is inherently divisive. Nothing about that situation says we are all Americans first. You bring up "wokeness." Wokeness makes it a point, and a historically inaccurate one, that the United States was founded not in 1776, but in 1619, and was based on slavery. Everything we're seeing now, including singing the "Black National Anthem" at the Super Bowl, is about emphasizing a nation within a nation that was historically wronged and continues to be wronged by a white oppressor. You brought up Christian Nationalism recently. Are you willing to admit there's a Black Nationalism movement that's alive and well within the country, aided and abetted by white liberals, that won't settle for anything less than millions of dollars for every black American in reparations and because that's not possible will continue to act out in anger?
