Yankees fans threaten boycott after ban of Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’

New York Post ^ | May 11, 2019 | By Dean Balsamini

[ConservativeStatement]

Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America” has been scrapped at Yankee Stadium, but Bronx Bomber fans are going to bat for her over allegations of racism.

Smith’s niece, Suzy Andron, told The Post she is “honored” by the groundswell of support for the late singer among fans and media.

Smith’s niece, Suzy Andron, told The Post she is “honored” by the groundswell of support for the late singer among fans and media.

“Most are solidly behind the positive notion that this is a misunderstanding by a few people who took two or three of her songs [out of 3,000 that she recorded] out of context and inflated a story that my Aunt Kathryn must have been a racist,” Andron said.

[Doogle]

BRING BACK KATE....

[MayflowerMadam]

Good for these fans. I hope the outcry is so strong it will hurt.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Instead of attending a game, tailgate in the parking lot. Do not go into the stadium. It could easily cost the Yankees a couple of hundred thousand in concession sales. Do that a few times, look for Yankee advertisers who support the ban and boycott them and in a week or so, Kate Smith will be back on the sound system.

For some reason, the ChikFilA buycott never made it into a case study.

[econjack]

Good for the fans! In Indianapolis there is a restaurant named Acapulco Joe’s, which was founded by Joe Rangle in the 1950’s, a Mexican immigrant who thought he was on a train to Minneapolis! He was so appreciative of the opportunity he found here, that he played Kate Smith’s God Bless America every day, without fail, at noon in the restaurant. If you showed up in a military uniform, your meal was free. He has long since passed, but I’m pretty sure they still play her song at noon every day.

[Da Coyote]

Long past time to fight the liberals/progressives.

Use their tactics, to include physical ones.

This has gone far enough.

[ConservativeStatement]

I hope Flyers’ fans and Yankees’ fan unite. Different sports, different fanbases but the same purpose. Political correctness is damaging to our nation.

[Bon mots]

Gillette's stupidity led to a boycott - that the MSM never reports - that reduced their sales by some 8%.

Gillette's market share has dropped from 70% to 50% over the past decade.

Gillette has been forced to drop the price of its razors by about 15% over the past few years and is on the verge of losing master brand status.

Now, after that stupid Feminazi male-bashing ad that was attempting to sell something to men blew up in their stupid faces, sales have crashed.

I am personally boycotting all things P&G. Harry's Razors did the same thing with a SJW advert - they quietly pulled it when they saw what happened to Gillette, so I now buy only Shick - they make razors to fit your old Gillette handles.

[Starboard]

Yes. Time for the Big Pushback.

If not now, then when?

[Bon mots]

My point (above) being, don’t underestimate the indignance and anger of your customers. Your bottom line is at peril.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Libs have no problem with vith, n-laced, misogynistic, pro-murder-the-cop, killing babies and any other thing. Then they find out a woman, long dead, sang a song with racist lyrics EIGHTY SIX YEARS ago, and their heads explode.

Go figure.

[Grampa Dave]

I’m afraid that Yankee fans are like Giant fans.

The management could burn American flags and hang President Trump in effigy, and the fans would still go.

There is only one way to stop this biased social justice warfare crap!

That is to boycott, the company/people pulling this crap.

[ConservativeStatement]

The automobile TV ad where females bond and then the visual of a male named “Jeff” who is playing video games in his apartment. The purpose of the ad is to show female empowerment, that males are useless. The ad airs during hockey games. Women should be embarrassed that the ad never discusses anything about the car’s performance, gas mileage, safety, etc., just cackling ninnies mocking a male and enjoying life. The voice in the ad is grating enough. I say “Jeff” won that deal.

[americas.best.days...]

Suggestion: Go back to “Take Me Out To the Ballgame” during the 7th inning stretch.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Kate Smith banning is apparently Baseball’s answer to the NFL’s kneeling.

[yawningotter]

If ticket prices at Yankee Stadium are still outrageously expensive, it should be easy for many fans to boycott games.

[amnestynone]

If you really want to destroy this narrative show them who else sang this song(Paul Robeson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqaw2jviEsQ&list=RDLqaw2jviEsQ&start_radio=1

[Atticus]

Thousands of fans should just pull out their IPhones during the game and play the song at full volume.

[originalbuckeye]

Maybe instead of removing ‘racist’ statues (etc), we should teach HISTORY again!