Posted on 07/01/2008 4:18:40 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe
One of the most notable incidents from Tuesday's State of the City address occurred even before the mayor's speech began.
After the Pledge of Allegiance, Rene Marie was introduced to sing the national anthem.
But that's not what she sang.
Martin actually sang the tune of the traditional national anthem with the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice and Sing." It's a song some have called the National Black Anthem, the Negro National Anthem or the Black National Anthem.
Once she finished performing, there was a moment of awkward silence and then the crowd gave her mild applause. Marie said she understood why the audience was confused, since the song sounded familiar but the lyrics were different.
"Art is supposed to make you think. I wanted to express how I felt, being a black woman living in this country," Marie told 7NEWS.
The Denver Mayor's Office said it wasn't aware that Marie was planning to sing that version of the song. A spokeswoman told 7NEWS that the office expected her to sing the traditional anthem.
The Broomfield singer said only three people at the State of the City speech knew she would sing the lyrics to the Black National Anthem -- her husband, her mentor and herself. It was not a song requested by the city, but a song she had deliberately chosen to perform.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Do you have any insight as to where the best white reeducation camps will be located? I’d like to stay out of Arizona or New Mexico or the NE...
Nope, just butchered the tune some. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16762609/detail.html
Three things to remember about the Hate America people:
1. They breed;
2. They vote;
3. They're going to win in November.
When our congregation sang it during a church service a few years ago, I had heretofore never heard of it, but noting the copyright date of 1920 in our hymnal, I figured at the time that the words were inspired by World War I.
“I wasn’t even born here..”
I don’t know when you came here my friend, but when I did back in the fifties I first watched Rangerider, I Love Lucy, the Honeymooners, the Red Skelton Show, American Bandstand and then made a bee line to the nearest recruiting station. I already wore three stripes on my sleeves when I watched Johnny Unitas make history (in black and white). At one time, this country really was paradise and it is a shame that there are are so few who remember this country as it once was.
But then again, paradise was never meant to last.
FWIW, neither "America" nor the "United States" is mentioned by name in the SSB.
There’s nothing particularly objectionable about the lyrics of the song she sang, but it just isn’t the Anthem she was retained to sing.
I wonder how Marie would feel if she were a black woman living in Zimbabwe.
She put her race above everything else. How pathetic...
Hungry?
Good post.
Confused? Stunned perhaps. What they should of done was booed your rear end out of there. Planes, trains and automboles will take you just about anywhere else you wanna be.
What’s your source for that?
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Thanks potlatch -
It’s not a surprise
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The Broomfield singer said only three people at the State of the City speech knew she would sing the lyrics to the Black National Anthem -- her husband, her mentor and herself. It was not a song requested by the city, but a song she had deliberately chosen to perform in light of what was happening in the country, and what was happening in Denver in August -- when Sen. Barack Obama will become the first African-American to accept the nomination to become a major party candidate for president.
The first verse of the anthem, according to Black-Network.com:
Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
The National Black Anthem song was originally written in 1899 by by James Weldon Johnson for a presentation in celebration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, according to AfricanAmericans.com.
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Hmmmmm ...
Pretty much kept it to herself.
Guess she didn't feel the need to tell the folks that enlisted her to sing the National Anthem that she wanted to instead sing the Black National Anthem ???
Several folks need to be unemployed...
Lift Every Voice and Sing (1900) Originally written by James Weldon Johnson for a presentation in celebration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. This was originally performed in Jacksonville, Florida, by children. The popular title for this work is: THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM. The first few lines of this Ole Black spiritual are:
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
It’s a nice song for Church, but it’s not our National Anthem.
The Big Lie strikes again. An African-American, by all traditional definitions, is a person who is descended from American slaves and who was born in this country. This man is hiding his true heritage so he can get votes from a community that traditionally hates blacks from Africa. See my earlier vanity thread.
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