'Too stupid to hide your racism': Megyn Kelly roasted for attack on Black National Anthem

Former Fox News and MSNBC personality Megyn Kelly took to X to complain about Andra Day's performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl — a song also known as the "Black National Anthem."

"The so-called Black National Anthem does not belong at the Super Bowl," wrote Kelly, who has previously generated controversy for insisting that Jesus and Santa Claus are white and defending blackface exhibitions. "We already have a National Anthem and it includes EVERYONE."

Commenters on the site did not take kindly to Kelly's grievances — with some of them pointing out that the song she is attacking is, first and foremost, a Christian prayer.

"It’s good you’re too stupid to hide your racism," wrote author John Pavlovitz.

"It’s remarkable that there is right-wing backlash [to] the Black national anthem. The entire song is about honoring God," wrote former Congressional candidate Christopher Hale, quoting the song: "Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land."

"Flags, on the other hand..." wrote One People's Project executive director Daryle Lamont Jenkins, who posted a screenshot of an editorial Megyn Kelly wrote in 2015 titled, "The Confederate Flag Needs To Be Raised, Not Lowered."

"Actually the United States has several official anthems," wrote a user going by the name of @DarlingEbony. "Why does this one, which was first performed to honor President Lincoln (who they claim to be the party of), bother her?"

The Super Bowl was already an object of some controversy this year for some Trump supporters, who were enraged at pop sensation Taylor Swift's romantic involvement with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs, due to her civic support for voter registration and potential speculation she could endorse President Joe Biden, as she did in 2020.