Black National Anthem

I am appalled and in shock today. In an American City (Denver), for an official function (the Mayor's annual State of the City address), an African-American singer who was suppose to sing the Star Spangled Banner and instead sang The Black National Anthem.

Rene Marie was asked to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — a hymn commonly referred to as the "Black National Anthem" — to the tune of the national anthem, MyFOXColorado.com reported.

"If anyone has got a right to be angry it's probably me," Hickenlooper told the station. "I guess what I feel most is just deeply disappointed."

Correction Mayor Hickenlooper, every American citizen is angry at her. This is an outrage at our nation and its people. Who the heck does she think she is?




I guess that when the Democrats have their convention in Denver later this Summer, they will sing this song instead of our national anthem. And G-d forbid if Obama ever gets elected, this will replace the words of Francis Scott Key that inspired this nation for so many generations.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?