By Wayne Allyn Root
The so-called “Black National Anthem” was sung at the Super Bowl on Sunday. I did NOT stay standing. You have done?
I find it shameful and disgusting. I find it racist. I find it divisive. I find it insulting and insulting.
Not because I’m white, but because I’m American.
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in a predominantly black city. I am Jewish. My neighbors were Italian Catholics and Irish Catholics.
In my high school on the edge of the Bronx in Mt. Vernon, New York, almost everyone was black. I was the minority. I was bullied. I was attacked and beaten. But I never asked for a hymn to celebrate my minority status.
Why should we have a national anthem for just one group? I thought we were all Americans? Should there be twenty national anthems before matches? It would take an hour.
Why not a white national anthem? If you can have a black anthem, why not a white one? Why can’t I celebrate being white? Why is one racist and the other just fine and dandy?
Why not a Jewish national anthem? Black people make up 12% of America. But Jews represent only 2%. Aren’t Jews a “minority” even more than blacks? So why shouldn’t our minority be celebrated too? Why is only a “minority” qualified?
Why not an Italian national anthem? Or Irish? Or Polish? Or Latin? Or gay? Or straight? Or trans?
How come only black Americans can be celebrated? The man is so racist!
Here are some more important questions…
When did the United States become a “black nation”? Last time I checked there was only one nation under God. Doesn’t that nation already have a national anthem?
Do we live in “America?” Or was the name changed to “Black America?” Because if there is no country called “Black America,” why would there be an anthem just for “Black America”? This doesn’t make sense to me.
Black Americans would be offended if someone said that America is about 70% white, so we all live in “white America.” I think they would be very offended. I’m white and would be offended too. This is not “my America”. This is not “white America.” It belongs to all of us. We are all Americans. And there should be one anthem that represents us all.
It is “one for all and all for one”. Right?
Millions of Americans feel as if the NFL has simply spat in our faces. Yet no one in the mainstream media thinks this is a great story. It’s either bizarre or racist.
If the argument is, “You don’t understand Wayne. Black America is different. They experienced unique persecution with racism and slavery. They deserve it”.
First of all, two wrongs don’t make a right. Blacks were treated badly. We all agree. Guess what? The NFL has treated everyone who is not black badly. The rest of us just experienced racism.
Second, the black experience has been terrible, but it is not unique. My Jewish people have experienced prejudice and hatred for thousands of years, including here in America. We were also enslaved by the Romans and Egyptians.
But we experienced something much worse than slavery: the Holocaust was about slavery, mass murder, and the attempted extinction of our race.
So why isn’t a “Jewish national anthem” played at football matches? If you want to play that childish game, “our persecution was worse than your persecution.”
And our persecution was much more recent. The Holocaust only happened about 80 years ago. Slavery in America ended nearly 200 years ago.
More importantly, those days of racism and persecution of blacks are over (thank God). But looking at the nationwide protests after the mass extermination of Jews by Hamas in Israel… with protesters shouting death and genocide to Jews… it is quite clear that the persecution of Jews is still very much alive.
But I don’t want a “Jewish anthem” before football matches.
Why would anyone want to divide America like this? Is someone trying to start a new civil war? There should not be a “black America” or a “white America”. There is only America.
More importantly, why would a CEO want to offend and anger the majority of their customers? Most NFL fans are white. Does the NFL hate its white fans?
Does the NFL Commissioner/CEO (Roger Goodell) hate himself? Is he full of “white guilt?” Does he want to chase away all his fans who don’t celebrate racism against white people and the division of our country?
Because it would drive away most NFL fans. And that would be stupid, right?
I don’t see white America or black America. I don’t see white players, nor black players. I see the Americans. I see my brothers, my countrymen.
It’s time to retire the Black National Anthem from NFL games. Unless you want to divide America by race, religion, or tribes.
Is this what the NFL wants? I know I want a national anthem that represents all Americans. And I don’t support anything else.
Wayne Allyn Root is known as “the conservative warrior.” Watch Wayne’s TV shows: “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Network on Saturdays at noon ET… and Wayne’s daily TV show on Lindell TV 2 at 7pm ET on FrankSpeech.com. He also hosts the nationwide program “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Audio Network, daily at 6pm ET. Wayne’s latest book is a #1 bestseller. 1, “The Great Patriot BUY-cott Book.” You can order here: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Patriot-BUY-cott-Book-Conservative/dp/099173372X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676215826&sr=8-1