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Marc Anthony a Latin singer was asked to sing the star spangled banner in the game at Shea Stadium on September 21, 2001 after the horrible attack of 9/11. This sparked a bit of a controversy. But later Marc sang “God Bless America” which to no surprise lead to a big controversy on why a -quoted from the article God Bless Marc Anthony’s America- “spic” sang the song God Bless America. Marc Anthony was criticized for singing God Bless America even though the song was written by a Russian and he is an American, which I find astoundingly sad. Marc Anthony as written in the article God Bless Marc Anthony’s America said “I was born and raised in New York.” All Marc was intending to do was to sing this song in his New York City hometown for the crowd. Marc Anthony is an American born citizen and has Puerto Rican background which is also U.S territory. The Major League Baseball asked Marc …show more content…

Yet ironically the song was not written by an American but by a Russian. So the people shouldn’t be criticizing him or anyone. Everyone in America who is either pure American, Latino, or other nationality that makes up America makes them America. Which is why they should have the equal opportunity to sing the song without being judged. Even though we deny it bigotry is still going on. Marc Anthony who was a victim of bigotry, liked they said in the article Good Bless Marc Anthony’s America “calls out the bigotry that still plagues this country.” And once again as I said in the third paragraph everyone who lives in America makes up America and that makes them America. Marc believes that all this bigotry that is going on is ridiculous as we are in this new era in which we would’ve thought this wouldn’t be going on and I agree with him. All I have left to say is, God Bless

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