>At 06:21 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>Chris Kromm wrote:
>>
>>>Not sure how many of you watched the NBA All Star game tonight, but a
>>>remarkable thing happened. R&B singers Alicia Keyes and Angie Stone were
>>>slated to sing "America the Beautiful" before the game. They started into
>>>the song, but after about 6 bars, immediately shifted to singing "Lift Every
>>>Voice and Sing," otherwise known as the Black National Anthem, written by
>>>poet and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson.
>>>
>>>After finishing that, they did go back to "American The Beautiful," but
>>>changed the final chorus to: "America/And EVERYONE/God shed his grace on
>>>thee."
>>>
>>>The crowd went wild.
>>
>>In an approving way, I hope. Which was it?
>>
>>Doug
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>
>there was no challenge to the underlying dynamic that creates
>patriotism, in any event. it's just patriotism reborn in a way
>people on the left will find palatable.
EVERYONE? How's that patriotic by any normal definition?
Doug