The Prez Sings – “Lift Every Voice”

Our “Post Racial President” even knows the the first stanza!

(Keep your day job, Mr. President!)

OK, Old Timers – a flashback! Kim Weston at Wattstax, August 20, 1972 -

Now – when I was a little tike in segregated Virginia elementary school – we sang this each morning, instead of the “National Anthem” – and then did the Pledge of Allegiance.

James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing,

‘Til earth and heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the listening 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.