Dallas Mavericks star Josh Howard caught on home video refusing to honor the National Anthem as it's being sung to start a charity event. Why? Quoth the celebrity athlete, to the camera:
"The Star Spangled Banner's going on right now and I don't celebrate that sh*t. I'm black."
So according to this cretin, to be an African-American and a patriot is to be racially inauthentic? Wow. Howard signed a four-year, $42 million contract extension in 2006. This country has been very, very good to that multimillionaire pothead. What despicable behavior.
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No, Rod, you have it all wrong. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a terrible song, and Josh Howard understands this. It's unmusical, un-melodic, un-singable, it's nothing but a simplistic exercise in spelling chords. It's also not about United States.
Now, "America The Beautiful" is a wonderful song, and a proper choice for the anthem. It is about America and loving America. If you are against it being the anthem then you are anti-American. Partisans of "The Star-Spangled Banner" simply have no taste or discernment, and except the same old herd mentality. Josh Howard is schooling you on matters of taste.
Mr. Howard needs to visit and stay in another country, to appreciate,
his good fortune... only in America is anything possible.....
and he is getting paid to play BASKETBALL, COME ON....
"No, Rod, you have it all wrong. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a terrible song, and Josh Howard understands this. It's unmusical, un-melodic, un-singable, it's nothing but a simplistic exercise in spelling chords. It's also not about United States."
Yeah, one thing I noticed about Howard from the video was his wonderfully developed sense of artistic aesthetics.
I mean really, how can Francis Scott Key stand up against a real artist and word smith like, say, "50 Cent"?
For the record, not only is it about the USA, it's about the USA rising to victory after being attacked.
1:34 post was me.
Definitely not a fan of Josh Howard, or Mr. Cuban, or the Dallas Mavericks...
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