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?
“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.
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?
“...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.
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!
They should just get Ralph Northam to sing it in blackface.
If anyone is interested, here’s a superfecta bet that carries a lot of interesting symbolism for the world we live in today:
Tiz the Law
Stormin the Court
Enforeable
Honor AP
Controversial like Kate Smith was so controversial because she happened to sing, not compose or write, a 1930s Broadway song that was so racist that black Communist Paul Robson ALSO recorded it! Kate Smith’s statue removed from the Philadelphia Flyers home and her rendition of “God Bless America” no longer played there or at Yankee Stadium’s 7th Inning Stretch!
Controversial is code for being in the gunsights of the cancel culture marching moron mob!
Why do we always let the other side decide what is “controversial?”
“Controversial “
According to whom?
***criticized for romanticizing the antebellum south***
And Kentucky remained in the UNION as a Slave State, as did four other slave states.
Communists are swooning over this - another American institution/tradition in the process of being torn down.
Leni
The Dixie Stakes was originally called the Dinner Party Stakes.
It is the first stake run at Pimlico, named for the “dinner party” at Saratoga that spawned the track.
Preakness was the first winner, and hence was the big 3yo stake to be named.
So, it’s not a huge loss to go back to history.
But then, they’ll probably find that some of the financiers had slaves....
Never mind, I know why. They wish to destroy America.