Just this past week before Denver,Colorado Mayor John Hickenlooper
gave the State Of The City address he asked a jazz singer who has a wonderful and powerful voice to sing our national anthem "Star Spangled Banner" a black woman by the name of Rene Marie.
This is where the controversy behind this issue begins.Instead of singing the national anthem she took it upon herself to sing a song supposedly known as the "Black National anthem" a song entitled "Well Lift,Ev'ry Voice and Sing."Not only was this embarrassing to the country but to the great city of Denver as well because it is hosting this years Democrat National Convention.Even the Mayor made the comment that "Marie's actions showed a lack of understanding about the power of patriotic symbols.Even Barrack Obama made the comments that it was wrong of her to do so as well.
Marie made the outlandish claim to the Rocky Mountain News (July 4,2008 edition can be found online at RockyMountainNews.com) that " she is apolitical,choosing to address social issues through my art not politics."
Talk about double talk because as this story grew and gained national attention she also made the the claim that "she wanted to show America what it was like to live here as a Black woman."
Well Ms.Marie you made it a political issue and don't feed us the crap that you are apolitical give me a break.You went against the Mayor of your community who asked you to honor America and the City of Denver,instead you brought shame.After all isn't it Black liberal people (along with the rest of the hypocritical liberal leftists in the Democrat Party) who claim that they believe in diversity, as well as tolerance and preach it on their little soap boxes.So much for tolerance and diversity from Marie,it's all about her she has what myself as well as many call the "I I I" syndrome.It's called self-centeredness/self righteousness.
The truth be told had this been a white person at a multicultural event singing a song other than what that certain person was asked to sing he/she would be slandered through out the lamestream media and labeled as a racist.This is just another case of a person of color using their race as an excuse to show their true intentions.
for todays posting
David R.Beaupre
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Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.
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Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
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God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD,
True to our native land
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--James Weldon Johnson June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938