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In reply to the discussion: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Calls NFL Anthem Protests ‘Dumb And Disrespectful’ [View all]Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)He had to be escorted out of the stadium for singing a (white folk music) "Soul" rendition of the anthem.
This was at a time when military-style bands played the anthem, not pop singers.
Now we live in an age of "Born in the USA" when "black-sounding" pop music is appropriated by white-nationalist xenophobes instead of being booed off the stage.
There was an interesting transition in the 70s in the history of white reactions to black culture with Lynyrd Skynyrd throwing blacks out of their "hippie" audience by refusing to play "Sweet Home Alabama" (according to the Muscle Shoals documentary) at Confederate flag-draped stadiums of their supposedly positive-minded lyrics.
Since Skynyrd it's been widely understood in the alt-right online and sports-fan troll communities that appropriation is key to rendering the culture of their enemies irrelevant.
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