Hodgetwins condemn the NFL's plan to play a "Black National Anthem," arguing it mirrors Jim Crow segregation and devalues other groups like Latinos and Asians. They debunk claims that the song is exclusively Black, noting its 1919 NAACP origins and Lincoln tribute, while accusing the organization of perpetuating racism for employment. The hosts assert police brutality stats are manipulated to ignore personal responsibility, stating they will kneel solely to protest the divisive title by holding up an "All lives matter" sign, ultimately viewing the move as a dangerous attempt to fracture American unity rather than address genuine injustice. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why A Black National Anthem Is Divisive00:05:15
Black national anthem.
We in Africa?
You damn Africans and lost your mind.
The black national anthem.
I don't even think they got a black national anthem in Africa.
You think so?
What do you think?
Man, that is simply ridiculous.
Like black national anthem?
Are you crazy?
That's like when you have to come up with a black national anthem, it makes you think that there's a white national anthem.
Yeah.
That it's a Latino national anthem.
That there's a native national anthem.
Did y'all know the national anthem?
The star-spangled banner?
That's for everybody.
It's supposed to be unifying.
When you come up with the black national anthem, that's kind of divisive.
Yeah.
It's just for black people.
It's not unifying.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Not black people.
African Americans.
Yeah, they don't like to be called black Americans.
No, they want to be African Americans.
I think they don't even want to be African Americans.
They want to be Africans.
Hate to break to you.
But you got a simple fix for that.
You know you can leave.
One way.
Hey, give me a one-way ticket to Africa.
Hold up, man.
We sound like some white supremacists here.
No, I'm just being real.
If you want to be a, if you want to hold your allegiance to Africa, you want to be African?
Pick up your, pick yourself up by your bootstraps.
You can go back to the motherland.
Hey, look here.
Let's get back to the black national anthem.
Now, in the NFL for the first week of games, they're going to sing this before the national anthem.
Now, if this is such a great idea, why don't you do it the whole season?
Yeah.
All 16 games.
You can even do it for the Super Bowl.
Black Lives Matter, right?
I mean, if Black Lives Matter, why you only doing it for one week?
Sounds like Black Lives Don't Matter to me.
You're just doing it for one week.
You know why?
They know it's a horrible idea.
They'll forget the first week of the season.
We got 15 more games of the Super Bowl left.
We can recover.
Man, this is a horrible idea.
And everybody, if you go look up the history of this black national anthem, it was never meant to be called the black national anthem.
This song was actually written to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
Yeah.
White dude.
Yeah.
He was president.
He freed the slaves, you know.
He was Republican.
Yeah.
You know that statue?
That statue y'all defaced and y'all tried to rip down?
Yeah, that dude.
Now, the NAACP back in 1919, they actually coined the phrase this is the black national anthem.
Now, back in 1919, believe it or not, the NAACP was a legitimate organization that was fighting systemic racism in this country.
But now, they're just around the day to keep racism alive.
You know why, don't you?
Because without racism, they ain't got no job.
That's why they keep it around.
They unemployed.
I think it's a really disservice to this song because anybody, I challenge you to Google this song, the lyrics to this song.
It is a beautiful song.
It's a Christian song.
But to call it the black national anthem, that is such a disgrace.
If I'm at a basketball game or a football game and you call it the black national anthem, I gotta take a knee.
I gotta take a knee because you calling it the black national anthem, that's divisive.
Many would argue that that's Jim Crow all over again.
Many would argue that that's segregation, and I'm not with that.
I gotta take a knee.
I'm all about unifying.
If y'all want to do something separate, But you could have did like what Ray Charles did, America the Beautiful.
Yeah.
Everybody said they should make that the national anthem.
But even then, I wouldn't call his version of America the beautiful, the black national anthem.
America is supposed to be a unifying thing.
Yeah.
You know what you could have named this song?
Keeping America Great Again.
That would have brought everybody together.
Or Make America Great Again theme song.
Because that song is beautiful.
And you to call it the black national anthem.
That's just not right, man.
That's not unifying.
A national anthem is supposed to be meant for everybody.
Now you got to come up with the Native American National Anthem.
Now you got to come out with the Asian.
Hey, don't forget the gays, man.
Oh, you got to get one for the, what do you call them, transgender?
Transgender community?
Because...
You got to come with one for the bisexual community?
Yeah, see what I'm saying?
It's divisive.
You should have one song that's unifying, the Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem.
It stands for all of us.
Yeah.
Did y'all know that?
You calling it the black national anthem.
That is just so disrespectful to the man who wrote that song.
It's disrespectful to our country.
The Intent Behind The Black Anthem00:02:10
And it's really disrespecting black folks because it's making them feel like they're not part of America.
That's the intended purpose.
That's why they're calling it the Black National Anthem.
Do y'all realize that?
Hey, black people, I'm talking to y'all.
They playing y'all, man.
They're manipulating y'all, man.
They're using your pain and suffering to divide us.
That's what they're doing.
Yeah, that's why I can't get behind Black Lives Matter because as a concept, you can't stand behind, you know, Black Lives Matter.
But that organization is not intended to help black people.
It's intended to enslave black people's minds to make them think that that life is less valuable than a white person.
They point out BS statistics that's not even relevant to the people that losing their lives to, let's say, what do you call it?
To the hands of a white police officer.
They're not going to tell you most people, black men dying at the hands of a police officer is because they're violent.
They're just going to say it's because of their skin color.
It has nothing to do with them beating the shit out of the cop.
It has nothing to do with them trying to grab their gun.
No, he killed him because he was black.
It's a lie.
Yeah, the common denominator and all these police brutality that's been going on in this country.
Every common denominator is this.
They're aggressive.
They fight the cops.
They punch the cops.
They resist arrest.
They resist arrests every single instant.
I'm telling you like this.
To every black American that has lost his life at the hands of a white cop, a black cop, or anything, if you just exercise just a little personal responsibility, don't drink and drive.
Don't resist.
Don't fight the cops.
Do what's right.
Obey the law.
99.99% of all these fatal shootings by cops wouldn't even happen.
Black National Anthem.
What a disgrace to this country.
Oh, I'm telling you, I'm taking a knee.
Not because I don't think it's a beautiful song.
It's because the title of that song is so disgraceful to those lyrics.
I'm taking a knee.
And you know what?
I'm going to hold up a sign that says, All lives matter while I'm doing it.