Lift your voice
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/pbs-vanessa-williams-backlash-black-national-anthem
PBS, Vanessa Williams spark backlash over ‘Black national anthem’
'This isn’t unity… it’s division'
PBS has sparked tense backlash with its decision to have Vanessa Williams perform the "Black national anthem" during its July 4 coverage – with critics blasting the move as divisive and un-American.
Williams’ performance on the station’s annual Capitol Fourth program Sunday evening is intended to celebrate the recognition of Juneteenth’s establishment as a federal holiday.
"It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth. So we are reflective of the times," the actress and singer, who was the first Black woman to win the Miss America Pageant, told the Associated Press.
"We are reflective of the times and I’m happy to be part of a tremendous show that the producers are aware and willing to make the changes that have happened within the past year and a half."
Her rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" will not replace the U.S. national anthem, which will be sung by Grammy-award winner Renée Fleming, but it has still bitterly divided people on social media.
Lavern Spicer, a Republican candidate in Florida’s 24th District, who is Black, said the song could divide the country on a day people should be standing together.
"Vanessa honey, a BLACK national anthem is something a Black African Country would have, not a country like America that exists for everyone," Spicer tweeted.
Author Tim Young echoed Spicer’s concerns, tweeting: "Nothing will unite us more as a nation than separate but equal national anthems…"
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It's standard leftist dogma, safely protected by "you're a racist if you don't believe this", that black Americans have fundamentally different lives than everybody else, even to the extent that non-black people can never understand them as human beings. Given that foothold into our cultural memes, this sort of division is appropriate and totally reasonable. Very few of us are willing to object to that original ideological foothold, for fear of being called racist. So these sorts of things will obviously happen.
If anybody doubts how mainstream that idea of a segregated black human experience is, try opining on anything about our pop cultural ideas of what it is to be black, in front of a progressive. The idea that it's shameful and racist to utter any opinion is always the first bullet in their rhetorical chamber. In my younger indiscretions of attempting to reason with the elderly white progressive women and feminized men on WTF, I was hit with it by several people. White progressives know at least enough about the experience of being black, to know that they can't possibly know it and neither can anybody else.
