Hodgetwins - NFL To Play "BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM" Before National Anthem
Aired: 2020-07-03
Duration: 07:26


=== Why A Black National Anthem Is Divisive (05:15) ===

[00:00:00]  Black national anthem.
[00:00:02]  We in Africa?
[00:00:04]  You damn Africans and lost your mind.
[00:00:06]  The black national anthem.
[00:00:10]  I don't even think they got a black national anthem in Africa.
[00:00:16]  You think so?
[00:00:17]  What do you think?
[00:00:19]  Man, that is simply ridiculous.
[00:00:23]  Like black national anthem?
[00:00:26]  Are you crazy?
[00:00:27]  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.
[00:00:36]  Yeah.
[00:00:37]  That it's a Latino national anthem.
[00:00:40]  That there's a native national anthem.
[00:00:44]  Did y'all know the national anthem?
[00:00:47]  The star-spangled banner?
[00:00:49]  That's for everybody.
[00:00:52]  It's supposed to be unifying.
[00:00:54]  When you come up with the black national anthem, that's kind of divisive.
[00:00:59]  Yeah.
[00:00:59]  It's just for black people.
[00:01:01]  It's not unifying.
[00:01:03]  Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:01:04]  Not black people.
[00:01:06]  African Americans.
[00:01:07]  Yeah, they don't like to be called black Americans.
[00:01:09]  No, they want to be African Americans.
[00:01:12]  I think they don't even want to be African Americans.
[00:01:14]  They want to be Africans.
[00:01:18]  Hate to break to you.
[00:01:19]  But you got a simple fix for that.
[00:01:21]  You know you can leave.
[00:01:25]  One way.
[00:01:25]  Hey, give me a one-way ticket to Africa.
[00:01:28]  Hold up, man.
[00:01:29]  We sound like some white supremacists here.
[00:01:31]  No, I'm just being real.
[00:01:32]  If you want to be a, if you want to hold your allegiance to Africa, you want to be African?
[00:01:37]  Pick up your, pick yourself up by your bootstraps.
[00:01:41]  You can go back to the motherland.
[00:01:43]  Hey, look here.
[00:01:43]  Let's get back to the black national anthem.
[00:01:46]  Now, in the NFL for the first week of games, they're going to sing this before the national anthem.
[00:01:52]  Now, if this is such a great idea, why don't you do it the whole season?
[00:01:57]  Yeah.
[00:01:58]  All 16 games.
[00:01:59]  You can even do it for the Super Bowl.
[00:02:01]  Black Lives Matter, right?
[00:02:03]  I mean, if Black Lives Matter, why you only doing it for one week?
[00:02:07]  Sounds like Black Lives Don't Matter to me.
[00:02:08]  You're just doing it for one week.
[00:02:10]  You know why?
[00:02:10]  They know it's a horrible idea.
[00:02:13]  They'll forget the first week of the season.
[00:02:15]  We got 15 more games of the Super Bowl left.
[00:02:17]  We can recover.
[00:02:19]  Man, this is a horrible idea.
[00:02:20]  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.
[00:02:29]  This song was actually written to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
[00:02:35]  Yeah.
[00:02:36]  White dude.
[00:02:37]  Yeah.
[00:02:37]  He was president.
[00:02:38]  He freed the slaves, you know.
[00:02:41]  He was Republican.
[00:02:42]  Yeah.
[00:02:43]  You know that statue?
[00:02:44]  That statue y'all defaced and y'all tried to rip down?
[00:02:48]  Yeah, that dude.
[00:02:51]  Now, the NAACP back in 1919, they actually coined the phrase this is the black national anthem.
[00:02:58]  Now, back in 1919, believe it or not, the NAACP was a legitimate organization that was fighting systemic racism in this country.
[00:03:07]  But now, they're just around the day to keep racism alive.
[00:03:12]  You know why, don't you?
[00:03:13]  Because without racism, they ain't got no job.
[00:03:16]  That's why they keep it around.
[00:03:18]  They unemployed.
[00:03:19]  I think it's a really disservice to this song because anybody, I challenge you to Google this song, the lyrics to this song.
[00:03:25]  It is a beautiful song.
[00:03:27]  It's a Christian song.
[00:03:29]  But to call it the black national anthem, that is such a disgrace.
[00:03:33]  If I'm at a basketball game or a football game and you call it the black national anthem, I gotta take a knee.
[00:03:41]  I gotta take a knee because you calling it the black national anthem, that's divisive.
[00:03:45]  Many would argue that that's Jim Crow all over again.
[00:03:49]  Many would argue that that's segregation, and I'm not with that.
[00:03:52]  I gotta take a knee.
[00:03:53]  I'm all about unifying.
[00:03:54]  If y'all want to do something separate, But you could have did like what Ray Charles did, America the Beautiful.
[00:04:02]  Yeah.
[00:04:03]  Everybody said they should make that the national anthem.
[00:04:06]  But even then, I wouldn't call his version of America the beautiful, the black national anthem.
[00:04:12]  America is supposed to be a unifying thing.
[00:04:16]  Yeah.
[00:04:16]  You know what you could have named this song?
[00:04:19]  Keeping America Great Again.
[00:04:22]  That would have brought everybody together.
[00:04:24]  Or Make America Great Again theme song.
[00:04:28]  Because that song is beautiful.
[00:04:30]  And you to call it the black national anthem.
[00:04:33]  That's just not right, man.
[00:04:35]  That's not unifying.
[00:04:36]  A national anthem is supposed to be meant for everybody.
[00:04:40]  Now you got to come up with the Native American National Anthem.
[00:04:43]  Now you got to come out with the Asian.
[00:04:45]  Hey, don't forget the gays, man.
[00:04:47]  Oh, you got to get one for the, what do you call them, transgender?
[00:04:52]  Transgender community?
[00:04:54]  Because...
[00:04:54]  You got to come with one for the bisexual community?
[00:04:57]  Yeah, see what I'm saying?
[00:04:58]  It's divisive.
[00:04:58]  You should have one song that's unifying, the Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem.
[00:05:03]  It stands for all of us.
[00:05:06]  Yeah.
[00:05:07]  Did y'all know that?
[00:05:08]  You calling it the black national anthem.
[00:05:10]  That is just so disrespectful to the man who wrote that song.
[00:05:13]  It's disrespectful to our country.

=== The Intent Behind The Black Anthem (02:10) ===

[00:05:15]  And it's really disrespecting black folks because it's making them feel like they're not part of America.
[00:05:21]  That's the intended purpose.
[00:05:24]  That's why they're calling it the Black National Anthem.
[00:05:26]  Do y'all realize that?
[00:05:28]  Hey, black people, I'm talking to y'all.
[00:05:29]  They playing y'all, man.
[00:05:30]  They're manipulating y'all, man.
[00:05:32]  They're using your pain and suffering to divide us.
[00:05:34]  That's what they're doing.
[00:05:36]  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.
[00:05:43]  But that organization is not intended to help black people.
[00:05:47]  It's intended to enslave black people's minds to make them think that that life is less valuable than a white person.
[00:05:54]  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?
[00:06:03]  To the hands of a white police officer.
[00:06:05]  They're not going to tell you most people, black men dying at the hands of a police officer is because they're violent.
[00:06:09]  They're just going to say it's because of their skin color.
[00:06:12]  It has nothing to do with them beating the shit out of the cop.
[00:06:14]  It has nothing to do with them trying to grab their gun.
[00:06:16]  No, he killed him because he was black.
[00:06:18]  It's a lie.
[00:06:19]  Yeah, the common denominator and all these police brutality that's been going on in this country.
[00:06:27]  Every common denominator is this.
[00:06:30]  They're aggressive.
[00:06:31]  They fight the cops.
[00:06:32]  They punch the cops.
[00:06:33]  They resist arrest.
[00:06:34]  They resist arrests every single instant.
[00:06:37]  I'm telling you like this.
[00:06:38]  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.
[00:06:50]  Don't resist.
[00:06:51]  Don't fight the cops.
[00:06:53]  Do what's right.
[00:06:54]  Obey the law.
[00:06:56]  99.99% of all these fatal shootings by cops wouldn't even happen.
[00:07:02]  Black National Anthem.
[00:07:04]  What a disgrace to this country.
[00:07:06]  Oh, I'm telling you, I'm taking a knee.
[00:07:08]  Not because I don't think it's a beautiful song.
[00:07:10]  It's because the title of that song is so disgraceful to those lyrics.
[00:07:14]  I'm taking a knee.
[00:07:15]  And you know what?
[00:07:16]  I'm going to hold up a sign that says, All lives matter while I'm doing it.
[00:07:20]  You're taking it too far.
[00:07:21]  You're going to...
[00:07:22]  I don't care.
[00:07:23]  It's time for us to take a stand, America.
[00:07:26]  Yeah.