Asked to sing the National Anthem, switches to the "Black National Anthem" (details)?

Question

How do you feel, or how would you react to someone switching of their own volition to the song which has been dubbed the "Black National Anthem," when they were invited to sing the National Anthem at a public event?

Here's a link, so you can watch the lady (who is black by the way) sing a song she was not invited to sing at a public event:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/12142/?ck=1

Then please post your thoughts, comments (without being crude, please).

Answer 1

I firmly believe that I reside in the United States of America.  And, I fear the singer failed by encouraging dis-unity.  That is a real shame...

I also read the words of the "Black National Anthem" and have no problems with those words for black or white or any other shade Americans.  When she was hired to sing the National Anthem and "substituted", she [and her mgr from what I read] thought they were giving a plus to their race?  I do not see that...another wedge?  Possibly.

Answer 2

Lift ev'ry voice and sing, till earth and heaven rinnnng. Ring with the harmony....

You like it (smile)? I do.

Answer 3

Change is the key word for this politcal season, and this instance is apparently just the tip of the iceburg.

Answer 4

I am thankful we live in a country in which people have the freedom of speech...but that does not mean that speech will not have consequences. What she did was completely inappropriate, whether she sang the "black national anthem" or the Canadian anthem or whatever anthem, she was commissioned to sing the American National Anthem. If a person does not perform that which she agreed to do, that makes her a liar and she has abused the public trust. It's a shame to her and the people she supposedly represents by substituting "the "Black National Anthem" without notifying anyone, because she says as a black, she just doesn't feel American". This kind of thought process promotes discrimination against blacks after all the struggles they've had and degrades the fact that they have been such a large part of American history. It's just a shame and the damage done.

Answer 5

1.  I would of disconnected the mic

2.  I would of started singing the national anthem at the loudest I could and forced her off the stage.

As far as  I am concerned, every single person there should of raised their voice in song and thus in protest and driven her out the door with their voices of ONE NATION under ONE FLAG.  Enough is enough.  She was wrong and they were wrong to allow her to continue.  

s***w the black national anthem....of what the heck country is it they are singing it for.  There is ONE ONE ONE National Anthem and it is the Star Spangled Banner and if YOUR DON'T LIKE IT....tough do do.  For those of you who do not know the words these are them!!!!!

USA NATIONAL ANTHEM - Star Spangled Banner

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave![

Answer 6

My thoughts are that this is not even a remotely newsworthy event that was hyper-hyped beyond belief by FOX news to bring it to the attention of the rest of the country.  Think about it.  Unless one is some kind of backwoods bigot or horrific racist, this event has absolutely no meaning.  You can thank the backwoods bigots and horrific racists at FOX news for, once again, diverting the national discussion away from substantiative issues...

Answer 7

Of itself, the word changes aren't really objectionable. BUT the singer had no right to change it arbitrarily on her own. She was hired to sing a specific song (the National Anthem) and failed to live up to her contract, because she was trying to make some kind of PC statement. She was wrong on many levels and I hope her career suffers for her egotism.