Former ESPN Personality Pushes Back On “Black National Anthem” At Sporting Events [WATCH]

Former EPSN personality Sage Steele recently criticized “Lift Every Voice and Sing” also known as the “black national anthem,” claiming that social activists are “shoving it down people’s throats.”  The song has been played at many sporting events recently alongside the national anthem.

 

Steele made the remarks when speaking with actor Reggie Watts on a recent episode of “The Sage Steele Show.”  The former EPSN host-turned-outspoken conservative said, “I never intended to stir the pot, but now I don’t care. … I don’t like this whole black national anthem thing.”

“What’s the black national anthem?” Watts asked Steele.  “See?” Steele responded.  “What’s that?” Watts doubled down.  Steele further explained how the “blanthem” has been played at many sporting events over the past couple of years, including the Super Bowl.

 

She continued, “Well, it’s newer the last couple of years and it’s at the Super Bowl.  And it’s been at a couple of major sporting events, and it’s ‘Lift Every Voice,’ and that’s sung now before the national anthem and it’s called the black national anthem.”  Watts chimed in, “It’s a blanthem.”  Steele concurred with this assertion from the guest.

 

Steele went on “Let’s call it that. Hashtag blanthem. Maybe if it were that I would not think it were so ridiculous and divisive. … With the hashtag we’re good. Cool. To me, and again I’m sensitive, because I’ve been told — Dude, we’re one big melting pot. This is good. Why are we now choosing to separate again when we’ve been in a tough time here the past several years, to say, “This is only our anthem, but y’all better stand up. Get you’re a** up.” …I think we’re all Americans and it’s our anthem; and all the immigrants from across the world that have come here stand up for our anthem. They’re all Americans.”

 

Steele then claimed that “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was being forced upon sports audiences.  “First of all, the fact that you didn’t even know,” she told her guest. “What’s that? The black national anthem. Because it’s new and they’re shoving it down people’s throats. What are we doing?”

 

Earlier this year, Steele sat down with conservative icon Ben Shapiro, where she illustrated that her immutable characteristics, such as being biracial, have contributed her being “divisive and disliked.”  She told Shapiro, “I think one of the biggest things that has made me so divisive and disliked and at least parts not all for sure, but parts of the black community is my conversation about being biracial. So if I’m asked and if I’m filling out a census … I’m going to check black and white, you know, my dad’s black, my mom is white.”

 

Watch Steele’s interview with Watts below:

 

 

She explained that it seems contradicting that she has become an enemy of the left when she is seemingly the poster child for diversity and inclusion.  “And I just was always confused by that and like, why isn’t my family the actual perfect definition of diversity and tolerance and acceptance and inclusion?” she asked.

 

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