Rant #3,289: Honesty

As I said in yesterday's Rant, I did not watch one single, solitary second of this Sunday's Super Bowl.

The main reason is that I have no interest in football, didn't make any bets on the game, and the hype has gotten to be completely ridiculous.

But another reason that I did not watch the game is thst I am just so sick and tired of politics creeping into sports.

And that was exemplified before the game when the song that is referred to as "The Black National Anthem" was once again performed.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was performed by Andra Day before the game, the fifth straight year that the song was performed during the year's biggest game.

Sorry, the performance of this song completely dilutes the performance of this country's true national anthem--which was sung by lily white Reba McEntire--and punctuates the racial and societal divisions that some simply want to fester.

It comes off as, "Here is the white national anthem for whites, and then, here is the black national anthem for blacks," and defines what the word "wrong" means.

Sports and politics do not mix, and what point was the NFL trying to make with the song's constant inclusion in the pre-game festivities?

Sports are supposed to bring us together, not pull.us apart, and the inclusion of this song in the Super Bowl is just so wrong.

We are one nation, and the last time I looked, White Americans do not have their own national anthem, Hispanic Americans do not have their own national anthem, Asian Anericans do not have their own national anthem, and so on.

I understand that a good number of NFL players are black, and many others--including Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes--are of mixed racial parentage.

But to put blacks on a lofty pedestal like this is unnecessary at least, and racist at its worst.

Let's all get under the same umbrella; aren't we better as one nation and with one national anthem?

Unfortunately, what has happened is the Super Bowl has about as much to do with the game as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has to do with the music ...

And that is not only sad, it says a lot about our country right now, and the divisions that some of us would love to get wider.

Enough already!