This is a religious hymn just like the Battle Hymn Of The Republic. Nothing solely "black" regarding its content.
Same sentiment. Same prayer. Giving God the praise, thanks and glory for our great country.
Both hymns should be played as far as I'm concerned.....PLUS the National Anthem
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on 'til victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: J. Rosamond Johnson / James Johnson
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
I once did an informal survey of professional colleagues on what their parent's background was. Almost every colleague had parents who were college graduates - many of their parents had advanced degrees. I only found one person from a legitimate blue collar family background. One female colleague had a father who was an auto mechanic, and she was the first person in her family to graduate college.
That showed me right there that the United States has a caste system, and one's opportunity to advance to a higher caste is limited and fraught with difficulties
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