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CNN’s Don Lemon sings song known as Black national anthem on air ahead of Super Bowl
The Hill ^ | 02-10-2023 | DOMINICK MASTRANGELO

Posted on 02/10/2023 8:46:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

CNN anchor Don Lemon serenaded the network’s audience on Friday with a rendition of “Lift Every Voice,” known widely as the Black national anthem.

During a taped interview with actor and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph, who will be preforming the song before Sunday’s Super Bowl, Lemon broke out in song.

“I don’t know. I was — I felt like I should do it in the taping. Now, why did I do that?” Lemon told his co-hosts when “CNN This Morning” cut back to the studio.

“Well, you made our day. Our week,” co-anchor Poppy Harlow said.

“Yeah, look, that we sang that every — not every day, but we sang it a lot,” Lemon said. “I went to an all Black Catholic school when I was a kid. I was fortunate enough to be able to go to parochial school, and it was an all Black school because this was right after desegregation in the South. I think it was maybe ten years or so that my high school was desegregated before I went to it. But, so I learned that song … when it started to become the Black national anthem.”

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CNN really needs to part ways with this fool
1 posted on 02/10/2023 8:46:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
CNN really needs to part ways with this fool

or move him to SNL, I mean people laugh at this guy more than they laugh at the skits.

2 posted on 02/10/2023 8:48:14 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lemon is a racist.


3 posted on 02/10/2023 8:48:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lemon is Insane don’t you know


4 posted on 02/10/2023 8:48:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This man needs to be b*tch slapped.


5 posted on 02/10/2023 8:49:30 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Start humming the tune to Dixie at times like that.


6 posted on 02/10/2023 8:49:38 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If he feels that he is NOT an American, and that he pledges allegiance to a foreign power, then his citizenship must be revoked and he must move to the African country of his choice, leaving behind all the riches he earned off of the stupid Americans who watched his stupid show.


7 posted on 02/10/2023 8:50:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I seeeeeeee.”


8 posted on 02/10/2023 8:52:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Where the He!! is the Black Nation?


9 posted on 02/10/2023 8:52:44 AM PST by Skeptical constituent
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s the white national anthem? White on White?

What’s the oriental national anthem? Turning Japanese?

What’s the Hispanic National anthem? LaBamba?

Sounds like we have an entire half-time show of national anthems?


10 posted on 02/10/2023 8:52:46 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s OK, anyone that watches the NFL knows what they’re getting.


11 posted on 02/10/2023 8:53:53 AM PST by Varda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He makes it sound like he was standing there with Martin Luther King in the 60’s. I was in school ten years after it was desegrated he says. And now he wants to segregate schools again.


12 posted on 02/10/2023 8:56:27 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don Lemon is longing for the days of segregation, and many support him


13 posted on 02/10/2023 9:01:30 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: John Milner
"What’s the white national anthem?"

I nominate "School's out for Summer" Alice Cooper 1972.

14 posted on 02/10/2023 9:02:33 AM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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this guys got an inferiority complex that just wont quit....


15 posted on 02/10/2023 9:03:56 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: Lockbar

now???....Dazed and Confused....


16 posted on 02/10/2023 9:04:45 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“I went to an all Black Catholic school when I was a kid. I was fortunate enough to be able to go to parochial school, and it was an all Black school because this was right after desegregation in the South.

Lemon is 56..... he was in high school in say, 1985. The school was still all black? And apparently the teachers couldn't get the gay out of him.

I went to public high school in Maryland 1972 - 1976 and my school was fully integrated. And I never heard of this song till a couple of years ago.

Black national anthem?! Juneteenth?! What a load of BS.

17 posted on 02/10/2023 9:11:23 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: I want the USA back
If he feels that he is NOT an American, and that he pledges allegiance to a foreign power, then his citizenship must be revoked and he must move to the African country of his choice...

They would not take him!

18 posted on 02/10/2023 9:12:24 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: Skeptical constituent

Wakanda?


19 posted on 02/10/2023 9:12:52 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: Lockbar

The Clash “White Riot”1977

Black man gotta lotta problems But they don’t mind throwing a brick White people go to school Where they teach you how to be thick

https://youtu.be/2wC4UsFsa3A


20 posted on 02/10/2023 9:24:45 AM PST by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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