{"id":173,"date":"2022-09-02T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:18:25","slug":"friday-night-lights-the-anthem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?page_id=173","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Lights &#8211; The Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">As I mentioned earlier this week, I will no longer stand during the national anthem for two reasons 1) because the real song included a threat to slaves that if they chose FREEDOM by siding with the British they would be killed 2) the same judicial system that Francis Scott Key was a member of is the same one that does not punish police officers who kill Black and Brown people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I issue this challenge to everyone who believes that Black Lives Matter to do the following during the anthem tonight or any time you attend an event where it is played:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Stand up and salute the flag; it represents freedom<\/li><li>Find a Veteran and shake their hand and thank them<\/li><li>Sit down during the singing\/playing of a song that was written by a racist and adopted as these countries anthem by a bigot, and as acknowledgement of loss of people of color at the hands of the police&#8230;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned earlier this week, I will no longer stand during the national anthem for two reasons 1) because the real song included&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}