During a San Francisco Giants game at Oracle Park earlier this month, a picture of a fan in the stands protesting a performance of the black national anthem went viral. The fan in the picture had his back turned to the field and hands over his ears as the song was being played. Unsurprisingly, the picture caused a lot of responses. One of those replies came from Dean Cain, the actor who portrayed Superman and Clark Kent in the 1990s classic television show Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
“There is no Black National Anthem. There is no Asian National Anthem. There is only the National Anthem,” Cain courageously posted on X.
However, Democrats and others on the Left didn’t like Cain’s comment. Many took to the social media platform to reject or outright condemn Cain’s comment. As many on the Left regularly do to anyone who disagrees with them or challenges their ideological beliefs, they attacked Cain, calling him many names, among them the Left’s favorite insult: “racist.”
Sadly, this is all part of the Left’s attack on our culture, which is why it is extremely important to thwart its advances and have the courage to stand up against such assaults. Like the Bolsheviks of the early 20th century, the contemporary political Left needs a perpetually aggrieved class to function and survive. Dean Cain wasn’t having any of it.
“Common sense is a rare commodity these days,” Cain told me in an exclusive interview. “Some people just want to be outraged and offended. They covet it like a status symbol. The ‘victim mentality’ of the outrage mob is the exact opposite of what I teach my son and what I tell people who ask for life advice.”
The Left’s objective is to create a divisive, racist, and segregated hierarchy in society. Advancing a narrative about the legitimacy of the black national anthem is just one of many examples of this.
“I don’t understand the concept of having more than one national anthem,” Cain said. “The United States is a great melting pot, held together by common values, an allegiance to our Constitution, and the idea that ‘all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ Of course, quoting the Declaration of Independence will probably offend plenty of folks.”
“Our Founding Fathers were far from perfect, but the framework they created allows us to continually strive to create a more perfect union,” Cain said. “Having a ‘black national anthem’ or an ‘Asian national anthem’ or a ‘Latino national anthem’ is divisive, ridiculous, and reminds me of ‘Separate but Equal.’ It has no place in our nation.”
Common values and a specific American culture hold this country together. Today’s political Left wants to destroy both and has made no secret of its hatred for everything about the country. From its history to its traditions, everything is part of the Left’s great disdain. The Left envisions a time in which all the pillars that made the nation great are torn down and reconstructed with the ideological bricks and mortar of its radical political ideals and values.
“I think we are in a weird time in this country, and the fact that sports organizations have surrendered to this divisive idea of multiple national anthems, social justice virtue signaling, and aligning with questionable causes like the Marxist-infused BLM will be looked back upon as a mistake — and pandering at the highest level,” Cain said. “As a famous actor once said when asked how we end racism, ‘Stop talking about it.'”
Cain references a popular clip from several years ago: an interview on 60 Minutes with actor Morgan Freeman. Freeman’s response was indicative of the kind of common sense that Cain rightfully pointed out that we are lacking today. It also reflects the kind of logical ideas those on the Left do not like.
However, those on the Left want to silence this and suppress such positive and rational thoughts. Democrats and others on the Left are fueled by hatred, racial animosity, divisiveness, and hate. Their ideals are antithetical to some of the country’s most revered civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“King’s I Have a Dream speech is the opposite of having separate national anthems or separate graduations or separate water fountains. It’s about judging people by the content of their character, not immutable characteristics like the color of one’s skin or their ethnicity,” Cain said. “I much prefer a society that measures people by this metric. In my opinion, any idea that promotes a separate national anthem for different racial groups in the United States is completely divisive and has no place in this country.”
“That doesn’t mean a song like ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ cannot be celebrated and honored,” Cain said. “But it is not the black national anthem any more than ‘America The Beautiful’ is a Midwestern national anthem.”
“Ray Charles’s version is my personal favorite,” Cain said.
I concluded my conversation with Cain by asking what he thinks is a possible solution. The Left needs racism and divisiveness to survive and function. Its very political survival is predicated on the presence of hate. Its ideology is the prevailing one in pop culture and academia. And with at least half the country’s voting population aligning with these radical beliefs, what can and should be done?
“I think the solution is more speech,” Cain said. “People need to speak up and call out the false narratives of the race-baiters and professional grievance agitators, and do as MLK dreamed — judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”
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Courage — it’s as simple as that — and standing up against those who wish to cause us harm, a relatively easy feat that is simultaneously quite difficult. Defending those values that make our nation great and separate us from the rest of the world.
As per usual, on those Sunday nights on ABC in the 1990s, Superman was right.