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Yankees dump Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ from rotation over singer’s racist songs
New York Daily News ^ | Apr 18, 2019 | Stefan Bondy

Posted on 04/18/2019 4:33:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

The Yankees have taken a stand against racism for their seventh-inning stretch.

For 18 years, Yankee Stadium regularly used Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of “God Bless America” in the middle of the seventh inning. But they ditched it altogether this season, replacing Smith’s rendition with different versions of the song. Why? As the Daily News learned, the Yankee were made aware of Smith’s history of potential racism.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: flyers; godblessamerica; godblessmaerica; katesmith; mlb; newjersey; newyork; pennsylvania; philadelphia; philadelphiaflyers; racism; richardcohen; ronaldreagan; skankees; wildwood; yankees; yankers
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1 posted on 04/18/2019 4:33:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Potential racism, another way to eliminate things the commies don’t like.


2 posted on 04/18/2019 4:34:02 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

As if I needed another reason to hate the damn Yankees.


3 posted on 04/18/2019 4:36:44 PM PDT by hardspunned
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potential racism

I don't keep up with left-wing newspeak, what the hell is "potential racism"?
4 posted on 04/18/2019 4:37:20 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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What racism? All Liberals and such want to use revisionist history to condemn people for the times they lived in. GThis is wrong, I liked Kate Smith and she was a very talented lady, shame on the Yankees.


5 posted on 04/18/2019 4:37:32 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: wally_bert

George Steinbrenner must be spinning in his grave at what his sons have done to this once great team.


6 posted on 04/18/2019 4:38:12 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: hardspunned

I’m equally unbiased for baseball (or any other ball/sport) as that I hate them all.


7 posted on 04/18/2019 4:38:45 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

No doubt.

Didn’t liberals hate him and the people who benefited after his death?

Billy Martin was amusing on those beer commercials. Those 70s and 80s beer ads of less filling, taste great were great. They failed with me. I could never stand beer or alcohol. Coffee is another thing I can’t stand.


8 posted on 04/18/2019 4:40:48 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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The Yankees are investigating these claims and there are some conflicting notions regarding the song “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” in particular, because it was considered satire at the time and recorded with African-American artist Paul Robeson.

The left always eats its own eventually.
9 posted on 04/18/2019 4:41:34 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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Kate Smith was a sweet, gentle All-American Southern woman. That's the real reason. There wasn't a racist bone in her body. Anyway, she has been dead for over three decades. Mighty brave of the Yankee organization to "take a stand" against a harmless old dead woman.

Oh, well, just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
 

10 posted on 04/18/2019 4:42:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The equal to double secret probation?

I haven’t watched a full baseball game since the early 1990s.


11 posted on 04/18/2019 4:44:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

That’s pathetic.


12 posted on 04/18/2019 4:46:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

If you is white and love America, you are prolly a potential racist. Even if you are dead!


13 posted on 04/18/2019 4:46:53 PM PDT by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh awesome. Fighting ‘racism’ and climate change. Micky is spinning in his grave. So is Babe.


14 posted on 04/18/2019 4:47:01 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Cultural genocide in action.


15 posted on 04/18/2019 4:48:21 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Dear Lord, the stupid is so thick these days. Oh no, people used to record minstrel songs. Who knew?!! FYI: it wasn’t a “video,” dimwits. It’s from the 1932 movie “Hello, Everybody.” I guess movies released 87 years ago now count as revelatory news to the wet-behind-their-ears morons of the SJW movement. Say, here’s some more shocking news you’d better censor: that movie is about Kate’s heartbreak at losing Randolph Scott to her slender and beautiful sister, Sally Blane. FAT-SHAMING!!!!!

We must also throw every performer who ever wore blackface down the memory hole, which would include Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Jerry Lewis...and Bert Williams, the great black vaudeville star.

I will be happy when the whole lot of these mouth-breathing idiots die from measles, mumps, whooping cough and polio because they refused to get vaccinated.


16 posted on 04/18/2019 4:50:51 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: ConservativeStatement

Potential racism? Hell, every Democrat in the land can be accused of that!


17 posted on 04/18/2019 4:54:01 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: hardspunned

Wait a sec.

Didn’t they not allow negros way back when?


18 posted on 04/18/2019 4:54:52 PM PDT by Celerity
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What the hell is “potential racism”? Is that like potential energy?


19 posted on 04/18/2019 4:55:45 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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I hope that one day whites will push back before they push us off a cliff.


20 posted on 04/18/2019 5:01:09 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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