'I'm just here for THE National Anthem': Republican stayed seated during black national anthem at Super Bowl



Kari Lake was apparently sitting down at the Super Bowl during the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is commonly called the black national anthem.

"The @NFL played two different 'National Anthems' tonight. Someone just sent me a photo of @KariLake sitting during the first one," Benny Johnson tweeted when sharing a photo of Lake.

"I'm just here for THE National Anthem," Lake replied.

\u201c@bennyjohnson @NFL I\u2019m just here for THE National Anthem\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u201d
— Benny Johnson (@Benny Johnson) 1676246163

"I'm against a 'black National Anthem' for the same reason I am against a 'white National Anthem,' a 'gay National Anthem,' a 'straight National Anthem,' a 'Jewish National Anthem,' a 'Christian National Anthem,' and so on," Lake noted in a statement, according to Fox News Digital. "We are ONE NATION, under God. Francis Scott Key's words ring true for every single American Citizen regardless of their skin color. James Weldon Johnson's 'Lift Your Voice' is a beautiful song, but it is not our National Anthem."

Lake expressed support for comments posted by Zeek Arkham, who tweeted, "My 'black' National Anthem is the same anthem I've been singing since I was a child. The same one children of all races have been singing. My National Anthem never needed a color. Do they want racism to die, or do they want to keep finding ways to divide us all?"

"I love this," Lake noted when retweeting Arkham.

\u201cI love this.\u201d
— Kari Lake (@Kari Lake) 1676253840

Lake, who lost Arizona's 2022 gubernatorial contest to Democrat Katie Hobbs, is slated to speak at CPAC's Ronald Reagan Dinner next month.

Lake has claimed that she did not lose the governor's race: "I didn't lose. I won. They stole this," she said.

\u201c.@KariLake: \u201cThey thought that being new to politics, they would steal the vote of the people of Arizona in broad daylight, and I would just walk away going it\u2019s too big of a hill to climb, of a mountain to climb.\n\nThey picked a fight with the wrong person. I didn\u2019t lose, I won.\u201d\u201d
— Kari Lake War Room (@Kari Lake War Room) 1673144740

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NFL fans deeply divided over black national anthem being performed at Super Bowl: 'America only has one national anthem'



For the third straight year, the black national anthem was performed at the Super Bowl. NFL fans were deeply divided on whether it was appropriate to perform the black national anthem before Super Bowl 57.

Before the Philadelphia Eagles took on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, 10-time Academy of Country Music award-winner Chris Stapleton sang the national anthem. Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds – a 12-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and producer – sang "America the Beautiful."

Emmy-winning actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which was designated as the "black national anthem" in 1917 by the NAACP.

\u201c.@thesherylralph performs "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the #SuperBowl\u201d
— The Hollywood Reporter (@The Hollywood Reporter) 1676244334

Reactions on Twitter show NFL fans were staunchly opposed and vehemently supportive of the black national anthem being performed at Super Bowl LVII.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.): "America only has ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM. Why is the NFL trying to divide us by playing multiple!? Do football, not wokeness."

TheBlaze contributor Delano Squires: "I grew up singing 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' during assembly in my all-black elementary school. We also sang the Star Spangled Banner and said the pledge. It’s a beautiful hymn, but I feel like it’s being used by people who think we need a new founding (1619), flag, and anthem."

Political pundit CJ Pearson: "The National Anthem is for EVERY American. What’s the purpose of a black one? Super Bowl Sunday should UNITE America, not divide it by race. It’s not the 1960s."

TheBlaze contributor T.J. Moe: "Thank God we played the 'blacknational anthem.' Nothing screams unity like separating everything."

Police officer and podcast host Zeek Arkham: "My 'black' National Anthem is the same anthem I've been singing since I was a child. The same one children of all races have been singing. My National Anthem never needed a color. Do they want racism to die, or do they want to keep finding ways to divide us all?"

Former GOP candidate Lavern Spicer: "The BlackNational Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. The White National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. The Mixed National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner. If you live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, your National Anthem is the Star Spangled Banner."

Commentator Matt Walsh: "No other country on Earth is ridiculous enough to permit different racial groups to perform their own national anthems before major events."

Actor Kevin Sorbo: "The @NFL is going to play a black national anthem before the Super Bowl. Seems racist and divisive."

Radio host Gerry Callahan: "The 'Black National Anthem' could be the single best example of corporate cowardice and shameless pandering in American history. You have one national anthem or no national anthem. Roger Goodell is pathetic."

Students for Trump founder Ryan Fournier: "There is no Blacknational anthem. There is no White national anthem. There is no Hispanic national anthem. There is only THE National Anthem. God Bless America!"

Former GOP candidate James Bradley: "Having a black national anthem is just another way that Democrats keep us divided."

Political commentator Jack Posobiec: "The only thing that can unite America forever is creating separate national anthems for each different ethnic groups. I demand each one be played before every game Especially the Super Bowl."

There were people who supported the black national anthem being played at the Super Bowl.

Republican strategist Paris Dennard: "'Lift Every Voice and Sing' was a poem written by Republican, James Weldon Johnson in 1900. His brother put it to music and it was first performed by children at Johnson’s segregated FL elementary school to celebrate Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – which is today."

Forbes writer Exavier Pope: "It’s informally called the Black National Anthem, but that’s not the name of the song & when the song is referenced by Black people, we use the formal title of the song. Also, to refuse the song is to dismiss its origin, history, it’s lineage, & all the reasons it STILL matters."

Journalist Skylar Baker-Jordan: "'Lift Every Voice and Sing' has been called the Black national anthem for longer than 'The Star-Spangled Banner' has been the U.S. national anthem. This tweet is for all the conservatives currently or about to lose their s**t over a song praising God and freedom."

Public education activist Mitchell Robinson: "Please add 'Black national anthem' to pronouns, books, schools, LGBTQ folks, and the other harmless things that frighten conservatives."

Screenwriter Matt Mikalatos: "What's especially baffling to me is Christians complaining about a hymn playing before the Super Bowl. Maybe they should reflect on the lyrics."

\u201c"Lift Every Voice and Sing" (the "Black National Anthem") has been playing before *every* NFL game this season. \n\nWhat's especially baffling to me is Christians complaining about a hymn playing before the Super Bowl. Maybe they should reflect on the lyrics.\u201d
— Matt Mikalatos (@Matt Mikalatos) 1676219693

A previously recorded version of the black national anthem sung by Alicia Keys was played at Super Bowl LV in 2021. Gospel duo Mary Mary and Youth Orchestra performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during Super Bowl LVI in 2022.

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The NFL Should Not Be Playing One Anthem For Black Americans And Another For Everyone Else

If you divide the anthem, the purpose of it is defeated. And what good is our national anthem if we cannot unify around it?
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Fearless: Black national anthem signals NFL permanently joining BLM-LGBTQIA+ ‘Alphabet Mafia’



Upon releasing Richard Sherman from custody Thursday evening, the presiding judge hailed the football star as a "pillar of the community."

Police arrested Sherman after the free agent cornerback violently tried to break into the home of his in-laws, threatened to kill himself and harm his wife, and drunkenly wrecked his Mercedes at a construction site.

Something is clearly wrong with one of Seattle's pillars. Fortunately for Sherman, he plays for the right political team. That team is going to protect Sherman at all costs.

That team is what I call the Alphabet Mafia — BLMLGBTQIA+.

The Alphabet Mafia is the new Dallas Cowboys, "America's Team," the team every kid dreams about making.

If you're wondering why the NFL will play the black national anthem — "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — before games in the coming season, it's an initiation ritual placed on the league for Alphabet Mafia membership.

As the Sherman case demonstrates, membership in the mob has its privileges. You can show early signs of O.J. Simpson disease and still be stamped as a pillar of your community. An uncle can call 911 and tell police that you threatened violence against your wife and corporate media will pretend the call never took place.

Let's say Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a friend of Donald Trump, had been accused of the actions attributed to Richard Sherman, would a judge label Belichick a pillar of the Boston community? Would the judge be skewered for giving Belichick "white privilege"?

Yesterday, it was reported the NFL will make the black national anthem standard procedure at its pregame activities. It was also reported that social justice messages will return on the backs of helmets and throughout the stadiums.

The news surprised some sports fans. Even the super-woke NBA backed away from its social justice messaging this season. The words Black Lives Matter were stripped from the court. This past NBA season felt halfway normal. The games no longer felt like ESPN's Maria Taylor was wagging a finger of blame as you watched.

Sports fans wrongly assumed the NFL would make the same pivot to normalcy that the NBA did.

Nope. Not true. Different men have different standards to achieve made status in the Alphabet Mafia. The NFL has more hoops to jump through. It's a process.

Third-string Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib being celebrated for coming out as gay was part of the process. The NFL's social media campaign promoting the league as gay, transgender, non-binary, and Winnie the Pooh was part of the process. So was pretending that women's soccer player Carli Lloyd could kick in the NFL. And so was the Super Bowl commercial based on the fallacy that a little black girl received a football scholarship to play cornerback.

Embracing the black national anthem is part of the process. Continuing the pagan worship of the good Dr. Rev. George Floyd Luther III is part of the process.

At some point, the Alphabet Mafia will demand — and the league will acquiesce — that Meghan Markle be named head coach of the Los Angeles Rams.

Why does the NFL so desperately want to join the Alphabet Mafia?

Because the league has been promised, if it promotes the appropriate narrative, that corporate media will quit terrorizing its brand with false and exaggerated accusations of racism and a lack of safety. The NFL's public relations problems regarding black head coaches and head trauma will disappear.

The league has been bullied into submission. The poor and weak leadership of commissioner Roger Goodell and executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent has made pop culture's strongest force — the NFL — vulnerable.

Football is being brought into the secret society, the fraternal satanic organizations reshaping global society. Global elites cannot socially engineer the changes they want without controlling the number 1 American TV show on five different networks — CBS, Fox, ESPN, NBC, and the NFL Network.

The NFL wants to be treated like Richard Sherman, so it's going to lift its voice and sing, until China's cash registers ring.
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