In 1955, on the seat of a bus travelling through urban Montgomery, Alabama, one Ms. Rosa Parks, an African-American citizen, took a stand against racist policy by refusing to give up her seat at the front of the bus to move to the designated African-American section. The act of defiance, while a minor move in the grand scheme of things, was the catalyst for a series of boycotts led by the widely respected civil rights activist Revd. Martin Luther King Jr., that ultimately led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that repealed the bus segregation laws in place. This started a domino effect of other such policy repeals nationwide, which culminated eventually in the end of racial segregation in the United States.
Fast forward to 2023, and it’s Super Bowl Sunday over in the Democratic Republic of Columbia. The racially diverse, equality driven marketing team behind the NFL has taken the decision to honour the actions and spirit of Parks and King in their efforts to end racial segregation – by racially segregating the national anthem.
Black singer Sheryl Lee Ralph was invited to perform a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing, a song that is widely known as the ‘black national anthem’, and acknowledged as such by both Ralph and the NFL, as if to remove any plausible deniability of what they were knowingly deciding to do. To put it simply, that is to perform the national anthem to signify national unity, and then immediately undermine that performance with a second performance of the ‘black national anthem’, to make racial divisions unambiguously clear and then promote them.
Left-leaning and Democratic Party supporting publications have immediately seized the opportunity to antagonise their political opponents using their preferred method of antagonism, which is to accuse them of doing the very things that they themselves are doing. The decision to perform a second national anthem, a notedly black national anthem, is a transparent effort to clearly delineate racial differences, and put people in a segregated mindset of ‘us and them’, in direct contrast to the spirit of performing the actual national anthem, which makes no such racial distinctions. This decision was made only to stoke racial and cultural tensions. Any claim to the contrary is an outright lie. When right-leaning and Republican Party supporting onlookers notice this apparent situation, they are invariably accused of attempting to initiate a culture war. This is the political equivalent of taking a person’s hands, hitting them with them, then asking them why they are hitting themselves.
The song in question does not contain any overt themes of race, which the organisers and their supporters use as a convenient smokescreen to deny their real intentions. The performance of the song would not be an issue in itself, and the choice of a black performer specifically also would not be an issue, had this performance taken place as a standalone event. The juxtaposition of the two performances and their conflicting themes is what makes the true intention clear, and what makes it an issue.
The decision to host this second performance may seem trivial, but it is a symptom and indicator of larger machinations at work, and they are not being subtle. The instigators of this situation, make no mistake, are enemies of the United States of America and its citizenry. Most notably, they are particular opponents of the ‘united’ part of the arrangement. They want nothing more to divide the populace and encourage tension and hatred. What’s more, it works, and they know it does. The best way to defeat them is to recognise what is happening and refuse to play their game.
They also defeated racism by writing END RACISM in big letters on the football field. Who this message was intended for is unclear, but it is most likely intended for the UFOs that have been recently sighted hovering over the U.S. If the message of END RACISM can penetrate the tribal Alak’thuvian mindsets of the invading Venusians, perhaps there is hope yet for we monkey brained Earthlings.
Ghostleigh 
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