At this year’s Super Bowl (LVIII), groups like the NAACP have successfully convinced the NFL to allow the singing of two national anthems: the National Anthem and the hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing, calling it the ‘Black national anthem.’ Groups like the NAACP claim that the flag and the National Anthem should be seen and heard as symbols of an oppressive legal system that attacks black Americans. If were true, if the flag and its anthem stood for the oppression of any Americans, we should all kneel and cut down every flagpole from sea to shining sea, then burn their odious rags in one giant heap. (read more)