Conservatives Bothered By Black Nationwide Anthem At Tremendous Bowl

Conservatives are up in arms over the Black Nationwide Anthem being carried out earlier than Tremendous Bowl LIX.

Ledisi was among the many Grammy Award-winning New Orleans natives who carried out nationwide anthems at Tremendous Bowl LIX of their hometown on Sunday. Embellished Grammy-winning artist Jon Batiste delivered a New Orleans-inspired rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” whereas Ledisi, accompanied by the Higher New Orleans Excessive College Chorale Collective, powerfully carried out “Elevate Each Voice and Sing,” usually referred to as the Black Nationwide Anthem.

Though it’s not the primary time the Black Nationwide Anthem has been carried out on the Tremendous Bowl, its efficiency throughout Tremendous Bowl LIX—coinciding with the opening weeks of one other Donald Trump presidency—prompted swift criticism from conservative viewers.

The “Different Information Supply” Breaking 911 shared Ledisi’s efficiency on X and made a shady reference to the “white Nationwide Anthem” being carried out after the Black Nationwide Anthem.

The ’Black Nationwide Anthem’ is carried out on the Tremendous Bowl.

The White Nationwide Anthem will come later.

Fairness, tho. pic.twitter.com/oDQe3DxMCe

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 9, 2025

“This can be a shame. There is just one nationwide anthem—The Star-Spangled Banner,” one critic wrote in response.

“Black gamers make up 53% of the @NFL incomes tens of millions and tens of millions to play a sport we had been as soon as banned from,” one other critic wrote. “However certain, let’s have a separate #BlackNationalAnthem and faux that we haven’t overcome. It’s tone-deaf. There’s solely ONE nationwide anthem.”

One other person claimed that “Black of us are AMERICANS” and “share the identical nationwide anthem as everybody else right here.”

“I simply don’t see the utility of continuous to separate individuals up by race,” they wrote. “They didn’t begin doing this earlier than each Tremendous Bowl till after the 2020 BLM stuff. What’s the want? The Tremendous Bowl ought to be a nationwide unifying expertise the place we aren’t targeted on race politics!”

The inclusion of the Black Nationwide Anthem earlier than the Tremendous Bowl has sparked controversy amongst followers for the reason that NFL launched it on the finish of the 2020 season. The criticism seemingly resurfaces when the NFL consists of the Black Nationwide Anthem within the Tremendous Bowl, which is watched by 100 million viewers.

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