Daily Wire’s “Crain and Company” hosts slammed the NFL for having the “Black National Anthem” sung before our national anthem was played ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.
During the Daily Wire hosts’ appearance on Monday on “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, Megyn Kelly asked Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone what they thought of fans being “subjected to the so-called Black National Anthem” — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — before the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers took the field on Sunday in Las Vegas on the world’s biggest stage.
Jake Crain interjected, “Didn’t we fight a huge war inside the country so that we would stop doing this? So, we would have one national anthem. One of the reasons that aliens won’t talk to us is because we are this stupid.”
“We think to combat racism we should look at everything through color … I just don’t know why we do this,” he added. “Can you imagine? Where’s the Hispanic national anthem? Where’s the Asian national anthem?”
Blain Crain said the “Black National Anthem” says it wants “to lift everybody’s voices and you’re excluding every other race.”
“It makes no sense to me. I didn’t even know they’ve been doing this back since 2020,” he added. “There’s one national anthem. That’s it.”
Jake Crain added, “We brought Reba McEntire to the Super Bowl, not to sing the white national anthem,” asking what are we doing?
The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” agreed and called it “divisive.”
“There’s one national anthem for all of us,” Kelly said. “Every American. There’s no point, and actually, it’s a middle finger to the country, to those of us that love each other irrespective of skin color to try to divide us by race when we get to anthems at the Super Bowl.”
Daily Wire host David Cone said one of the first steps that’s needed, from a marketing perspective, is to “stop calling it the ‘Black National Anthem'” and said the “NFL has found themselves in this tough spot where they are trying to market to all these demographics and make everyone happy.”
He said that the bottom line is the league isn’t going to be able to “make everyone happy.” However, Cone did credit the NFL and players as there was no kneeling during the national anthem, a short trend started by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.