Sharon Crockett on Nostr: I have to get this off my chest. After the collapse of Reconstruction, Black people ...
I have to get this off my chest. After the collapse of Reconstruction, Black people were forbidden to sing the US national anthem under Jim Crow laws. So, 121 years ago my forebears composed their own “negro national anthem”, LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING. I grew up hearing my older relatives sing this anthem and never thought much about it, and I certainly never thought it was a threat to the STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. If they can sing AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL before a game, why not this anthem too?
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