Posted on 04/21/2019 9:29:22 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
First she was covered up. Now, apparently she is gone. The bronze statue of the late singer Kate Smith has apparently been removed from outside Xfinity Live! as the Flyers looked into racist lyrics she sang. Talk radio host Tony Bruno tweeted around 9:30 this morning that the statue was gone and posted video.
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262506/my-friend-eddie-david-horowitz
Political correctness is a very strong force in our culture.
Suddenly one day, someone stumbles across some old song sung by Kate Smith, which would be considered improper by today’s standards, and suddenly, the next day, she is banished.
Eventually , based on this mindset, ALL of history and culture of the past will need to be destroyed, because there is nobody from the past, who can be found to have a 21st century politically correct worldview or who did not violate current liberal standards in some way.
WTH was “racist” about Kate Smith????????????
The Kate Smith statue is not there. It was never there.
Orwell’s 1984.
You’re right...
Today’s mindset (academia, liberalism, socialism) history did not begin until 2008...
Kate Smith is fortunate not to be alive today in an era of intellectual vapidity.
From your msn link....
Talk radio host Tony Bruno tweeted around 9:30 this morning that the statue was gone and posted video.
She is Risen! #katesmith statue now gone at @xfinitylive in South Philly. Gutless cowards @NHLFlyers @comcast @NBCSPhilly Good luck raising charity dollars in the future, Bruno wrote.
#EasterSunday #katesmith is gone. Video from @XfinityLive in South Philly. pic.twitter.com/9YRaedv7uc
— Tony Bruno (@TonyBrunoShow) April 21, 2019
Someone discovered an old song she sang in the 1920s or 30s about “darkies”. So this crime against humanity, to the politically correct crowd of today, cancels out the rest of her career, cancels out the beautiful sounds of “God Bless America”, because she sang a song almost 100 years ago with “darkies” in the lyrics.
Because she sang that song, she is perceived to be racist.
The funny thing is, mom never told me about Kate Smith's frugality until about 13 years or so ago.
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I hate PC people.
That is the Marxists' goal. 1984 describes it pretty well.
You said it! Bump!
This is on a level with the 1966 Chinese Cultural Revolution but being carried out by our own Red Guards.
Great..another reason to cancel my infinity cable today!
Fox news hiring Donna brazille..and no one worth watching besides Tucker Carlson, levin and Lou dobbs. I can get their stuff the next day on the web.
The whole point Fox was to offer and alternative the only alternative to all the other media and and and that’s gone
She sang a song titled, “That’s why darkies were born”, a song which was also recorded by Paul Robeson but liberals don’t care about the fact that Robeson sang the song because he was a black man and an avowed communist. If Kate Smith had been a black communist they woudn’t care about her version of the song either.
The Left is holding everyone who ever existed accountable for not being The Left.
Wonder why nothing is said about rappers going on and on about “niggahs”????
Smith teamed up with known black communist Paul Robeson on some of that material. Which if examined was exposing racial difficulties experienced by blacks. Typical of the use of Perverse Cliometric tactics used by the left when its presented as being politically correct to fit their distorted perverted revisionist views.
One of the best voices America ever produced but made the fateful crime of singing God Bless America.
Well, part of that is because blacks are not held to the same standards on the use of such vile language. Apparently they are excused because of the legacy of slavery.
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