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On Thursday night, the former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake took to social media to slam the idea of the black national anthem being played before NFL games.
This came after a photo went viral earlier this year showing Lake defiantly refusing to stand for the black national anthem.
Lake ‘Won’t Stand For It’
“I hear the @NFL is still trying to force this divisive nonsense down America’s throats,” Lake wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “I won’t stand for it. Literally.”
“America has only ONE National Anthem and that Anthem is color blind,” she added.
Outkick reported that the NFL has been playing both “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the “Black National Anthem,” before games since 2021, much to the dismay of conservatives everywhere.
When Lake was pictured staying seated during the black national anthem back in February, she was hit with tons of backlash from the left, but she refused to back down.
“I’m against a ‘black National Anthem’ for the same reason I am against a ‘white National Anthem,’ a ‘gay National Anthem,’ a ‘straight National Anthem,’ a ‘Jewish National Anthem,’ a ‘Christian National Anthem,’ and so on,” Lake told Fox News at the time
“We are ONE NATION, under God. Francis Scott Key’s words ring true for every single American Citizen regardless of their skin color,” she added. “James Weldon Johnson’s ‘Lift Your Voice’ is a beautiful song, but it is not our National Anthem.”
Lake was also supported by black conservatives amidst the backlash.
“I agree with Kari Lake. We have one national anthem, and it’s the national anthem. I am as opposed to playing both anthems as I am to the term ‘African – America’ and to ‘Black History Month,’” Utah Congressman and former NFL player Burgess Owens told Fox News at the time.
“These things are divisive. They imply blacks are somehow separate and apart from American history, tradition and experience. It suggests continued victimization and oppression when antiblack racism in America has never been more insignificant,” he continued. “Blacks fought and died in every American war, including the Revolutionary War, in which a black man was the first casualty. We ARE American history.”
