I have always sung it and heard it the way my schoolteacher grandmother taught it, not just as a vehicle for us to sing the blues about our suffering and victimization as a people, but as a rallying cry to our resilience and determination.
Some people suspect that Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" camp is barely a step away from "Make America White Again."
They found a lot of food for that thought in the MAGA world's reaction to.