Why all the fuss about the Spanich version of the National Anthem?

[EstimatedProphet]

There's a Black National Anthem. It has different words that the 'official' National Anthem too. Very moving I might add. No one talks about it as some sort of insult, and they shouldn't. Here's the words, for those who haven't come across it:

Lift every voice and sing
Till Earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
Shadowed beneath thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our God,
True to our native land.

So, sorry, I don't get why it's such an insult to the national character for Hispanic immigrants to have their own version of the National Anthem.

[silverweb]

1. Just another wedge issue.

You know, to get the xenophobes and bigots stirred up.

:shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Yes, that's true

And that's what my point really is: if it's such a critical thing, why aren't people outraged about the Black National Anthem? It's been around for over a century! Amazingly the Us hasn't been destroyed by it!

[emulatorloo]

7. Maybe Karl Rove doesn't know about it yet EOM

[EFerrari]

3. To be honest, I still haven't gotten over "Mandy"

Mandy

-Artist: Barry Manilow as sung on "Greatest Hits" -Arista A2L 8601
-peak Billboard position # 1 in 1974-75
-Words and Music by Scott English and Richard Kerr

I remember all my life
Rainin' down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man
A face through a window
Cryin' in the night
The night goes into

Mornin', just another day
Happy people pass my way
Lookin' in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me, oh Mandy

CHORUS
Well you came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you today, oh Mandy


:rofl:

[wiley]

5. That is really funny!

:rofl:

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Oy oy oy

:eyes:

[wiley]

4. Because Bush and the Repukes used it

and even had it sung at campaign events in Spanish and now they are pandering to the ultra-right wing fundamentalists and bigots that thought it was okay if it deceived Latinos into voting for Republicans and *

Lying Corrupt Criminal Republicans

[Ecumenist]

6. Me either, EP

It's just a matter of bigotry wrapped in a very thick covering of hypocrisy with a thin covering of political expediency.

[xultar]

8. It think it becaused they changed the words.

[Skinner]

9. Because divisive cultural issues is all the GOP has.

They've utterly failed the american people. Their only hope for the election is to drive the wedge. Last time it was gay marriage -- this time it looks like it's going to be non-white immigration.

[EstimatedProphet]

13. Well, there's no argument there

The real question is whether we will learn the lesson from last time.

[gratuitous]

10. What else does the GOP have to talk about?

Stupidhead's stirring success in Iraq? I don't think so. The NYT is reporting that the Taliban is resurgent in southern Afghanistan. The federal budget? Right now they're plotting to swipe another $70 billion from the Treasury on their way out the door.

All of which doesn't address the fact that "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is one of the five greatest congregational songs ever.

[meisje]

11. I prefer the Romaine version myself

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Yeah, yeah...my fingers are too damn big for my keyboard