Victory Boyd – The Star Spangled Banner
An evening pause: Victory Boyd was supposed to perform the national anthem at the opening game of the NFL’s 2021 season. They canceled her because she has refused to get vaccinated for religious reasons. She responded with this performance made available to all. The NFL should burn in hell.
Her passion in singing the last two lines of the anthem are important. The words, “The land of the free, the home of the brave,” are meant to remind us that you can’t have the former without the latter. Right now, every time I see someone mindlessly wearing a mask I wonder if the latter still exists.
Sing it! Believe it! Make ’22 the year that freedom and courage return to America.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
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Mike Nelson-
Great video!
I haven’t watched an NFL game for years and totally forgot about this woman being cancelled.
So, let me get this straight– the racist & misogynistic NFL once again targeted birthing-people and people of color?
(It’s an intersectional-trainwreck meets cognitive-dissonance.)
Can anyone recommend a good version of the Anthem which has all the lyrics?
“O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the foe’s desolation;
Bless’d with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just —
And this be our motto — “In God is our trust!””
Mike Nelson-
Great video!
I haven’t watched an NFL game for years and totally forgot about this woman being cancelled.
So, let me get this straight– the racist & misogynistic NFL once again targeted birthing-people and people of color?
(It’s an intersectional-trainwreck meets cognitive-dissonance.)
Can anyone recommend a good version of the Anthem which has all the lyrics?
“O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the foe’s desolation;
Bless’d with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just —
And this be our motto — “In God is our trust!””