{"id":745279,"date":"2021-09-12T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=745279"},"modified":"2021-09-12T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:35:50","slug":"bill-maher-hits-nfl-over-black-national-anthem-performance-we-should-have-one-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-hits-nfl-over-black-national-anthem-performance-we-should-have-one-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Hits NFL Over Black National Anthem Performance: \u2018We Should Have One National Anthem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-hits-nfl-over-black-national-anthem-performance-we-should-have-one-national-anthem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=745279&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bill-Maher.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>HBO \u201cReal Time\u201d host Bill Maher slammed the National Football League during his show Friday night, saying in response to an Alecia Keys performance shown before kickoff Thursday that the league shouldn\u2019t be playing the song known as the black national anthem before events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI saw last night on the football game, Alicia Keys sang \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing,\u2019 which now I hear is called the black national anthem. Now, maybe we should get rid of <i>our<\/i> national anthem, but I think we should have <em>one<\/em> national anthem,\u201d emphasized Maher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think when you go down a road where you\u2019re having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have \u2014 many of them have different graduation ceremonies for black and white, separate dorms \u2014 this is what I mean! Segregation! You\u2019ve inverted the idea. We\u2019re going back to that under a different name,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/bill-maher-nfl-black-national-anthem-segregation\">added<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The words to \u201cLift Every Voice and Sing\u201d are from a poem by James Weldon Johnson. <\/span><span>It was later crafted into a song, and in about the 1920s, it was \u201cadopted by the NAACP as the official Negro National Anthem,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/why-black-national-anthem-lifting-every-voice-sing-180975519\/\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to Smithsonian Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWithin twenty years, it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of the country,\u201d wrote Weldon Johnson of the song in 1935. \u201cToday the song, popularly known as the Negro National Hymn, is quite generally used. The lines of this song repay me in elation, almost of exquisite anguish, whenever I hear them sung by Negro children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More recently, however, the NFL has announced that they will perform the song in conjunction with The Star-Spangled Banner as part of their social justice commitments. <\/span><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nfl-kickoff-a-packed-stadium-two-anthems-and-another-victory-for-tom-brady\"><span>Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> sports reporter Joe Morgan briefly noted on Friday following NFL kickoff:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20.353413654618\">\n<p><i><span>To kick off the NFL season, a video of Alicia Keys singing \u201cLift Every Voice And Sing\u201d was played in the stadium with the help of the Florida A&amp;M Concert Choir. \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d was played shortly after.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cTonight, the NFL as it did last year will present \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing,\u2019 also known as the black national anthem,\u201d NBC\u2019s Mike Tirico <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nfl-begins-season-opener-black-025100414.html\"><i><span>said<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> during the broadcast Thursday. \u201cAnd it will happen at several league events during the year \u2014 the NFL continuing the attention around social justice causes.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>According to a report by <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/nfl-social-justice-2021-stadiums-signage\/\"><i><span>Front Office Sports<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, \u201cThe NFL also plans to make \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing\u2019 \u2014 often referred to as the Black national anthem \u2014 a prominent part of all big league events.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During his show Friday, Maher acknowledged that he has been hitting the political Left lately and that he\u2019s been doing so because they\u2019ve been \u201cembarrassing me.\u201d He added, \u201cthat\u2019s why I\u2019m going after the Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-blasts-cultural-appropriation-after-woke-olympics-surfing-story\">Bill Maher Blasts \u2018Cultural Appropriation\u2019 After Woke Olympics Surfing Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-explodes-nothing-is-ever-good-enough-for-leftists-this-is-why-people-hate-democrats\">Bill Maher Explodes: \u2018Nothing Is Ever Good Enough\u2019 For Leftists, \u2018This Is Why People Hate&nbsp;Democrats\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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