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Looking back at Whitney Houston's 1991 national anthem

It's Been a Minute

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What a Big Deal for a Black Woman

whitney huston was perhaps, in that moment, the most american thing you'd ever seen. It's a massive deal for a black woman to be that and to be visible as that. The national football league knew that they were hiring a person had the experience of moving masses of people. And when you're the kind of person who has seven consecutive number one pawpits,  that means everybody pretty much who you are in the united states of America.

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