Posted on 09/05/2020 5:57:09 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Churchill Downs announced Friday afternoon that it will continue the tradition of playing “My Old Kentucky Home” — the state’s official song that some have criticized for romanticizing the antebellum south — in the moments before the Kentucky Derby.
A spokesman for the track told The Washington Post that the song will be played ahead of Saturday’s race by bugler Steve Buttleman instead of by the University of Louisville marching band, as in normal years, and will be preceded by a moment of silence.
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By the way, I have heard that the Dixie Stakes in Maryland will be renamed the Dinner Party for its 119th year of being run.
America is reaching the absurdity level...
What’s “controversial” about it?
It is part of the attempt to change anything ivolving traditional values or traditions. They found flaw with Kate Smith, they will find flaws with almost anyone.
One quote:
“I find it very ironic that all these men and women in their lovely hats and fancy gowns are singing a song with adulterated lyrics,” Foster biographer and music critic Ken Emerson said of the song’s use during the Kentucky Derby in a 2014 interview with WNYC News, “and they think they are singing a song that is a celebration of the Antebellum South, with ladies in crinoline and dashing cavaliers.”
“controversial”?! That was sudden. Along with the “controversial” statues, stadium names, street and city names all being “hurtful”. Frankly, I’d like to see the “Che” statue in NYC torn down. He tortured, murdered, maimed. He did more than hurt people’s feelings.
Original Lyrics (composed by Foster):
Verse 1:
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay;
The corn-top’s ripe and the meadow’s in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By ‘n’ by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus:
Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the Old Kentucky Home far away.
Verse 2:
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,
On meadow, the hill and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o’er the heart,
With sorrow, where all was delight,
The time has come when the darkies have to part,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus
Verse 3:
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darky may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow;
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, ’twill never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Chorus
This is what the ComPost does: It wastes inches on what it deems controversial instead of writing the facts on real issues.
Moment of silence my aunt fanny’s fat butt. I’m sick of these flaky virtue signaling cretins telling people how to live.
What happened to having a good time instead of it all being about some useless symbolism?
See the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home
Some think the song sentimentalized slavery and the antebellum south. It was originally a minstrel song. The original opening lines were:
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home.
‘Tis summer, the darkies are gay,
Obviously gay did not imply anything to do with homosexuality. The modern lyrics replace “darkies” with people. The word darkies occurs several times, and the narrative voice of the original is clearly that of a slave sentimentally recalling his life in Kentucky.
“...and will be preceded by a moment of silence.”
It use to be preceded by celebration of a tradition.
It seems that every decision-maker or every decision-making body in the United States has become wussified beyond description. They all want to kneel in submission to some vague delusion about systemic racism. Now, Americans wear a mask in submission and kneel in submission to something else that is out there somewhere, everywhere.
It all started with Obama, the unapologetic Kenyan, going around the world and apologizing for America’s greatness.
We live fairly close to “My Old Kentucky Home” in Bardstown. My wife and granddaughter do the tour every time our granddaughter is in town. It’s pretty cool.
One time almost the entire family there died of typhoid. It really reminds you that it was a different world back then.
Now, ‘scuse me while I watch my DVD of Amos and Andy.
Is this Matt Bonesteel?
Aside from a bad haircut he looks like he escaped from his mother’s basement after eating all her groceries.
So, is he reporting that others think the song controversial somehow or is this just his opinion?
Thank you. Didn’t know any of that.
Thank you.
I’ve been saying for years, that the greatest power the Left has is the power to declare things “Controversial”.
Businesses don’t want to be “Controversial” so they go along with the Left, even if only a very small minority believe something is “Controversial”.
Breaks my heart - they took down the statue of Stephen Foster from the Pitt campus.
The statue showed Foster standing with a little black boy playing a banjo at his feet.
But they had to remove it from my beloved Pitt campus. We’re so sick of this sh1t!
Being known as “controversial “ for a business is like a politician being called “courageous “ !
BLM has been active in Louisville. They will try to disrupt the Derby for sure.
My wife is a Louisville native. Breaks her heart at what the city has become.
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