To help heal racial wounds, Black national anthem would become America’s hymn under proposal
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help toward uniting the country after centuries of racial turmoil.
Like the turmoil race hustlers, Al Sharpton, et al, have been perpetuating during the last decade?
Rep. Clyburn plans to introduce a measure making “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, the national hymn and give it a special place alongside the country’s anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
He had the following to say.
“To make it a national hymn, I think, would be an act of bringing the country together. It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn,” said Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black American in Congress. “The gesture itself would be an act of healing. Everybody can identify with that song.”
Really, “Everybody can identify with that song.” How many citizens have heard of or heard that “song” to identify with it?
Further, what behavior is going to be required when it is played?
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