Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Signified Anthem

Rene Marie combines the lyrics of "Lift Every Voice" with the melody of "The Star Spangled Banner." While much of the rhetoric around what she did with her time on stage has been perceived as negative and unpatriotic, I for one view it as a most beautiful form of dissent. Hers is a true artist's example of the frustration and love that is fundamental to the black experience in America. I have long been an advocate of changing the National Anthem anyway-to the Ray Charles version of "America the Beautiful."
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