I Didn't Even Know ThereWas One

[Mule]

Denver mayor invises black woman to sin national anthem & she sings "black" national anthem.

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6895287&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list'ning 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.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning 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 has 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.

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.

[Rick V]

Ok this pi$$es me off. there is only 1 National Anthem. Let me repeat that for anybody who may have missed it. ONE!
If my countrys theme song is offensive to you get you a$$ out of my country.
If you think we need a song for every group of people who live here, you may follow the first group of people in getting out of my country.
We are all different people, we all see things through a seperate set of eyes but we are all Americans at the end of the day. When will people see this and just stand together, like we used to do? We used to be a proud people, now all we do is whine and bitc^ about what they need, and how the country should bend to thier will.
Get over it, get a clue, or let me show you the way to the ocean.
This rant is directed at no one group, just a generalization of how we have fallen down, IMO.

[badcar]

Very lame. And the "Looper" (mayor) is too PC to react properly.

[URY914]

Someone should have taken the mic out of her hand and told her to sit the f- down.

Makes me mad.

[Mule]

Originally Posted by URY914

Someone should have taken the mic out of her hand and told her to sit the f- down.

Makes me mad.

Do what with that mike?

[widebody911]

Can't wait to hear the 'mexican' national anthem

[Scott R]

On this topic, the wife and in laws were at the Rockies game weekend before last and half the audience didn't know OUR national anthem. About 3/4's of the way though people started clapping cheering and sitting down, then they stood back up when they realized there was another verse. Mind you the lyrics were on the jumbo-tron as well, which I thought was there to keep people in sync, but I thin its there for people that don't know the words. I was floored by this.

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Can't wait to hear the 'mexican' national anthem

We may have to share it in California, the LA Times last Sunday had an article about the History of Mexicalifonia.

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Can't wait to hear the 'mexican' national anthem

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
marijuana por fumar

[Joeaksa]

Sad, really sad...

[livi]

Yet another subject that rise the blood pressure with Americans, where I fail to understand why it is such a big deal??

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by livi

Yet another subject that rise the blood pressure with Americans, where I fail to understand why it is such a big deal??

If some of your poor immigrants stood up and butchered the Swedish national anthem you guys would be mad as well.

Its not something that any country would accept.

[livi]

Originally Posted by Joeaksa

If some of your poor immigrants stood up and butchered the Swedish national anthem you guys would be mad as well.

Its not something that any country would accept.

Oh. OK. I didn´t realize it was butchered. See, I learn every day!

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Can't wait to hear the 'mexican' national anthem

It has already been done, back in 2006

Lyrics to 'Nuestro Himno' ('Our Anthem')

Verso 1
Amanece, lo veis?, a la luz de la aurora?
lo que tanto aclamamos la noche al caer?
sus estrellas sus franjas
flotaban ayer
en el fiero combate
en señal de victoria,
fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertad.
Por la noche decían:
"Se va defendiendo!"
Coro
Oh decid! Despliega aún
Su hermosura estrellada
sobre tierra de libres,
la bandera sagrada?
Verso 2
Sus estrellas, sus franjas,
la libertad, somos iguales.
Somos hermanos. Es nuestro himno.
En el fiero combate en señal de victoria,
Fulgor de lucha
(Mi gente sigue luchando)
al paso de la libertad
(Ya es tiempo de romper las cadenas.)
Por la noche decían: "!Se va defendiendo!"
Oh decid! Despliega aún su hermosura estrellada
sobre tierra de libres,
la bandera sagrada?
English translation:
Verse 1
It's sunrise. Do you see by the light of the dawn
What we proudly hailed last nightfall?
Its stars, its stripes
yesterday streamed
above fierce combat
a symbol of victory
the glory of battle, the march toward liberty.
Throughout the night, they proclaimed: "We will defend it!"
Chorus
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?
Verse 2
Its stars, its stripes,
Liberty, we are the same.
We are brothers in our anthem.
In fierce combat, a symbol of victory
the glory of battle,
(My people fight on)
the march toward liberty.
(The time has come to break the chains.)
Throughout the night they proclaimed: "We will defend it!"
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by livi

Yet another subject that rise the blood pressure with Americans, where I fail to understand why it is such a big deal??

Well Markus, for me it goes like this. If you are gonna burn my flag make sure to wrap yourself in it first. If you are going to be disrespectful of my country, get out. Everybody is entitled to an opinion, and I am glad that I live somewhere where they can voice their opinion. just don't tread on the country, and by turning your back on the National Anthem, or the Pledge of Allegiance, you are spitting in the face of every American. And Every soldier who has layed down their lives so that morons can have the freedoms to be idiots.
You would be better off to spit on me than my country.
I am one of those unpopular people who flys the flag 365 in front of my house.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by livi

Oh. OK. I didn´t realize it was butchered. See, I learn every day!

not so much butchered, but a different song, I believe an African American Separatist version.

Imagine you are at a big event, World Cup Game, Sweden vs Norway, or whoever your rival is, sorry, not up on that really. Anyway, you get somebody up there to sing the Swedish National Anthem, and they start singing God Save the Queen. Would people cheer, or boo?

[URY914]

Did this dumbazz singer think this would help race relations somehow?

Let me guess who she will be voting for...

[jjone20]

It's the level of self-absorption that bothers me. Some people are so busy making statements about what's important to them, they cannot consider what's important to us - the collective us. And see, it's funny too because some of these same people are quick to be aggrieved at the slightest perceived offense against them.

[mike monde]

"Someone should have taken the mic out of her hand and told her to sit the f- down."

I agree, if you don't want to sing our national anthem, DECLINE and let someone else do it.
Do not mess with the symbols that men and women laid down there lives for.

[Mule]

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