Kari Lake, a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona, took aim at the NFL on Thursday night for what she deemed to be a controversial decision during the Kansas City Chiefs and Detroit Lions opening game.
A Kansas City youth choir performed a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremonies. The song is known as the Black national anthem and was sung before “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Lake took to social media to voice her displeasure.
“I hear the @NFL is still trying to force this divisive nonsense down America’s throats. I won’t stand for it. Literally,” she wrote on Twitter. “America has only ONE National Anthem and that Anthem is color blind.”
I hear the @NFL is still trying to force this divisive nonsense down America's throats.
I won't stand for it. Literally.
America has only ONE National Anthem and that Anthem is color blind. https://t.co/fFSHcp7sP1
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) September 8, 2023
Lake attached a picture of herself sitting during the Black national anthem during Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, a game won by the Chiefs over the Philadelphia Eagles.
The use of the song “sparked criticism among Lake and many others on social media,” according to Fox News.
The NFL started to play the Black national anthem in the 2020 season following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. The NAACP began promoting the song as the Black national anthem in 1917, according to Fox News.
[Fox News]
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