I don't believe you 👽

Welcome

He doesn’t care

You can't possibly be a day over 179.

Are you still on earth? Happy Birthday !

ME TOO😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

isaac samuels you are right! I have to ask though, was there anything that he wasn't the master of?!

+Neshawn Ghavamian I could only wonder..

Not to mention how Dick Cavett claps slowly at first, then stops... then has a look of surprise and starts clapping again when the crowd joins in x)

Is it because of racism? (Im just asking)

@@xa_2_alexanderedwardwidjaj877 Not at all, Cavett wasn't a racist. He was lowkey praising Charles by basically saying to the viewers "Why weren't you here earlier? Ray Charles is here!!"

@@him12672 Owh, ok then thanks

Oh look, its me one year ago. Still loving this song and didn't understand english as great, when the world was haven't gone to shit

ZZ hill

Thank you so much for this verse my God bless you and your family.

In other words, “for God so ‘loved’ the world that he sacrificed himself to himself to serve as a workaround for rules he created, so that he could develop the compassion needed to not infinitely torture human beings for finite ‘crimes’ like having sex before marriage or being gay.”

You will one day

I was lucky when i was 20 years old,went to his show in Paris, wonderful 💓 Time,didn't Know him b4 🥰♥️💃🕺😇⭐🌞✌️♥️

kelly takunda orphan thank you, sharing! 👏👏

Thank you so much for sharing the words. Key phrase: “native land”, i.e. The United States of America! It’s a song about freedom for... all people. What a shame such a lovely, compassionate song is being used to divide us. It’s a kind of desecration, really.

@@alfredtherien7791 The native land is Africa. What else could it be. It is saying the native land must still be honoured

And yet my kingdom is in heaven so I read that into it most of all... all people came from Africa where the Garden of Eden was, or the Middle East at least, including me who has the least melanin of all my people who have less melanin.

@@nataliegiles2554 and if it is Africa, it still shouldn't be considered divisive. African American people were brought here from the continent of Africa. Just like Irish people came from Ireland, Italians from Italy. We all have heritage that began elsewhere with ONE exception. USA is only the "Native Land" of the indigenous people that were here 1st.

Oh how wonderful👍🏿 Thanks 4 sharing😁😁

It should be first

your 19

I wish all schools did!

I never knew this songs, or its significance. It should be sung as one of our national anthems!

might have to do with the mic placements...when I used to perform sometimes I had to restrict movement because of the mics

everything

Wrong. This song was written as a POEM in the late 1890s I believe. It was first performed in 1900

NFL is introducing this anthem in the the 1st week of football... lets see how it goes over. they better get the right voices!

Why?

Shalom sis!! We about to sing it this morning on our 1st day of Daddy Day Care HomeSchool... God speed!! 😎👨🏽‍🏫

I’d be up for that. It’s a terrific song.

@@IyanAhmath12 I SHIT ON YOUR MONKEY SONG 👌🏼

My mom bought this album when I was a child and Ray Charles' version was the one I grew up hearing..I am 56 now, and his version of America the Beautiful AND Lift Every Voice and Sing are STILL my favorites.

2 years later and it is

@@elijahbabb78842024 still badly needed

This was obviously written because white men thought we weren't equal and we felt we needed our own. So how much has changed? Not much. At all. But you wouldn't know because you're not black.

Ashlea Callender people love to claim out culture as their own. On some #OneRace Bullsh*t

I was thinking the same thing..but I know it starts with me..and mine..but best know...if you are singing it..I am also singing it..teaching it and sharing it...I come from a time and place where if one person started singing this son...everyone around them knew the words and could sing it on key...

AGREE

Yesssss!!

BLACK National anthem👍🏿

I’m white, and I would love that! The only reason I’d worry is if some people thought it was taking it away from them. Oh, yeah, plus it makes me cry.

It also implores you to do something. It's more motivational than the Star-Spangled Banner which is more of a history lesson.

Ew, no.

The Star Spangled Banner was originally an English drinking song, the lyrics are about war and bombs and flags (things I personally don't care about), & to top it off it's ridiculous to sing. This is just far and away a better song -- it talks about joy and hope despite much suffering. It is normally interpreted much more hymn-like if you don't care for the dancey 4/4 version.

Am liking this version....Classic Ray!

relevant as AF

Do you want me to denounce my whiteness? Will that somehow make you feel better about yourself? I wouldn't ask you to denounce your skin color.

@@joseftullen6372 A new type of slavery took place where the concept of race was created to uphold it. White people thinking themselves as white occured the day they enslaved and created the concept of black people to unite the warring countries in Europe. So the answer is there are no races, but the concept of defining yourself by your race was created and formed by white people, which even though it is not biogically real it affect us in very real ways. Slavery, Jim Crow, the new Jim Crow etc. That's why Latine people are "proud" of their race because the color denotes "criminality, lower imposed intelligence" by white people. White supremacy is the dominant framework around the planet and it is why systematic racism doesn't exist for white people. Yes, even in majority nonwhite countries Honduras white supramacist frameworks affect the whole population. "Good hair, bettering your race (mix with light skinned" common sayings in latin america are white frameworks. Racism against black and indigenous Latine populations. So "white pride" is racist because there is no systematic racism against white people and it upholds the white supremacist frameworks that also negatively affect white people. Eg no healthcare in this country, social safety net, vacation time because nonwhites are the scapegoats for every problem for white people. I would love the day no one has to be proud to be pigmented phenotype, but until white supremacy (which subjects poc to inferiority status) is destroyed that won't happen. Notice I didn't say white people, only that whiteness was created to uphold white supremacy the same day the created black people as negative concept. Be proud of your country's people, of your similarities that you and I share, with where you come from/class, middle class/working class/ poor/ etcethnicity/roots (Irish, Honduran, Jewish etc) . With a barely there middle class the country mainly serves a few rich oligarchs which use race and class to divide us. Get rid of their main tools racism, neoliberalism, and capitalism and we can get somewhere.

@palermo1kid if victory wasn't made then who lost?

@palermo1kid SO who is lost with no direction? Sheep as in obedient? Don't we all comply to laws within this society i.e. taxes, registration, DL). So who are the wolves?

I would be more worried about getting killed by each other.

We are getting “killed” by our own. We are getting killed by the lifestyle we choose to live. The oppression we see is real don’t get me wrong, it’s easy to overcome if we stop living up to the stereotypes media portrays for us. Stop pushing the victim narrative and start pushing for overcoming via changing our ways and how others perceive us.

Isn't the American national anthem about kicking some ass ?

#saintemarionloveshubbygreg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marion Taylor #homegoingpastoralcobbssr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marion Taylor #holyghostmovie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EXACTLY!!!

Key phrase: “native land”, i.e. The United States of America! It’s a song about freedom for... all people. What a shame such a lovely, compassionate song is being used to divide us. It’s a kind of desecration, really.

Now you have to hate it because of BLM.

@@heru-deshet359 or not let people influence what you like

Love Ray, but I wasn't feeling that version 🙄