American Black National Anthem written 1919

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

Blog Owner's Comments:  As long as American Blacks have a Black National Anthem, the more resistance they will demonstrate to accept the American National Anthem and the more DIVISION will be created between the races, perpetuating RACISM...

Personally, according to the FIRST AMENDMENT of THE BILL OF RIGHTS incorporated into the US CONSTITUTION in 1776 when the Black Man was still a slave, all American Blacks just like all American Whites have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to enjoy free speech and say whatever it is that they want...

AND... this constitutional right will continue to be enforced upheld by the COURTS until the US Constitution is rewritten and that First Amendment abolished like slavery.