Gonna go ahead and get ahead of the upcoming culture war firestorm here and give you all a bit of history before bad faith arguments claim "no one has ever heard of it."
Fun fact, I learned the instrumental on the clarinet to play on a solo in front of a church when I was 12.
^^ Time for me to show some receipts again. Look at the dates here when I was telling you that Lift Every Voice was (and is going to continue to be) manufactured outrage.
The ironic thing is that Lift Every Voice is a song that in so many words says, "we went through hell, we see the promise of today, tomorrow is gonna be a better day, and we still believe in the American dream."
The later verses praise a Christian God for his blessings and asks for guidance.
You catching on yet?