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 Smiths 1939 recording of God Bless America in the middle of the seventh inning. But they ditched it altogether this season, replacing Smiths rendition with different versions of the song. Why? As the Daily News learned, the Yankee were made aware of Smiths history of potential racism.
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If putting Babe’s statue upside down in a local South Bronx sewer made ownership more money, he’d be relocated pronto.
Eh, when the ‘94 World Series was canceled I moved on.
Replaced with Snoop Dog likely
Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green.
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.. a few more:
Arthur "Rats" Henderson
Cool Papa Bell
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe
"Cannonball" Dick Redding
"Smokey" Joe Williams
Leroy "Satchel" Paige
*Sigh*
Looks like I got my answer.
Flyers cover Kate Smith statue, dump God Bless America over racist songs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3743162/posts
Another stage of Operation Kaepernick.
Using charges of racism to drive patriotism out of the culture.
PC run amok! We no longer have any historical perspective! Holding historic figures to today’s ever-changing ‘standards’ is the height of ignorance.
Thx. I always assumed this song came out during WW II.
So we had patriotism even before the war back then. Now a chunk of us are a sad lot who are willing to exchange their freedoms for freebies.
Wonder if any kids today even know about the Alaskan Gold Rush? My kids went to public school but I still homeschooled them at night in American History and Math.
Enjoyed your post.
God Bless America--Kate Smith (1939)
It was removed in 2019.
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