Black National Anthem

[Humble Disciple]

The "black national anthem" is obviously a Christian hymn. Is the "woke" left removing any references to God when they promote it? Aren't these the same people who wanted "under God" removed from the pledge?

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the Black national anthem in the United States[1] – is a hymn written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1900 and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), for the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1905.[2]

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday by Johnson's brother John. In 1919, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) dubbed it "the Negro national anthem"[3] for its power in voicing a cry for liberation and affirmation for African-American people.[2]

The song is a prayer of thanksgiving for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery evoking the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom of the "promised land." It is featured in 39 different Christian hymnals, and is sung in churches across North America.[4]...

Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
’Til 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 ’til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening 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 died.
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,
’Til 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.[17]
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Wikipedia

 

[Humble Disciple]

It's because I care about black heritage, especially the heritage of black Christians, that I don't want the left appropriating the song.

Black Americans: Most Religious Ethnic Group

 

[carpro]

There is no such think as a black national anthem. Period.

 

[Scott Downey]

What God are they singing about?
God is someone all religions claim to know about, but specifically Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh.
It is relatively painless to acknowledge a creator God and sing about that, but the name of Christ mentioned in song really focuses which God is being celebrated.
So that anthem pretty much any non atheist of any religion can agree with.

Matthew 10
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’

 

[JonC]

There is no Black National Anthem and no White National Anthem. There is the National Anthem of the US, which applies to citizens of the US without regard to race.

It is unfortunate many Black men and women desire segregation in order to maintain a sense of "history" - especially as their desires discount the men and women who put their lives on the line to end slavery, to end Jim Crow laws, and to fight for racial equality.

The Black Anthem (not the song, but it's use) is a mockery of Black history.