Dallas Mavericks’ forward Josh Howard On The National Anthem
Sep 17th, 2008 by RSmitty
From article 3592734 on espn.com:
‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is going on. I don’t celebrate this [expletive]. I’m black.
Because I believe in the Constitution more than the White House Administration does, I am OK if Josh has contempt for our National Anthem. Hell, I even thought Ted Turner had a good idea about making it more time-relevant and wanting it to be changed to “America, The Beautiful.” Ray Charles version, please. Anyway, it’s not his contempt that irks me, it’s the reasoning. Josh certainly left volumes open to interpretation here, but I can’t imagine any of it being positive.
