(07-06-2020, 08:00 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote:

(07-06-2020, 07:43 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Lift Every Voice and Sing is only known anecdotally (casually) as "the black national anthem." 
There is nothing official in that monniker. Labeling it as such is misrepresenting it.

The article is a blurb from a third party (PFT) quoting an ESPN reporter who says an unnamed source told him the song would be performed. 

The third party article quoted by the OP contains an intentionally misleading title that leads readers to believe that the performance of this SONG serves as some separate anthem for a subset of Americans.

As there has been NOTHING from the NFL to confirm the song will be sung at all - and certainly no information that it will serve as a national anthem for anyone  - THE TITLE IS MISLEADING.

(love you too)

Misleading or not, my point is that is the exact title of article he linked.

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(07-06-2020, 07:48 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:  
This isn't about Florio. 
This isn't about me. 

This is about whether it's OK to lead people to believe there are two anthems being performed separately in week one - when in reality there is one anthem   -  and before that anthem there is a song paying tribute to the civil rights movement.

It’s not just PFT. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nf...368762002/

Whether you agree or not, the song is referred to as the Black National Anthem.

It is indeed casually referred to as the black national anthem. Not formally.  
Putting it in a headline suggests formality and those headlines are seeking to stir the pot. Not to objectively inform.

I think it's a misrepresentation to imply this song will serve as something akin to The Star Spangled Banner when there is no indication that is the intent.
  If that IS the case, then this progressively minded NFL fan thinks the league is really tone deaf on how to handle the current climate and it's a misstep. Too divisive. 

But there's no info to support it will even happen - much less any intent to provide a "separate anthem."

I've made my points. I'll step away from the thread and the title alterations. 
I trust the rest of the mod team to find a happy place with that title. 

Man, I wish we had some Jags news to talk about 

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