Posted on 12/15/2017 2:25:36 PM PST by broken_arrow1
“Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist.
A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas carol has a “problematic history” because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans.
“The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Kyna Hamill, a BU theater historian, wrote in her “Theatre Survey” research paper on the story of “Jingle Bells.”
“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” she wrote.
Hamill started researching the history of the famous Christmas carol after a so-called “Jingle Bells War” – a dispute between two towns, Medford, Mass. and Savannah, Ga. – that claim to be the birthplace of the song written by James Pierpont.
“Its origins emerged from the economic needs of a perpetually unsuccessful man, the racial politics of antebellum Boston, the city’s climate, and the intertheatrical repertoire of commercial blackface performers moving between Boston and New York,” Hamill wrote.
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Therefore white snow is racist, the song “I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas” is racist, white bread is racist, white women having white babies is racist, racism is racist.
Professor Hamill is an idiot.
Can't happen soon enough.
Heck you can hear it on FR.
Well I always thought that some of the less known verses of Jingle Bells were rather unfair and prejudicial to Batman and Robin.
Wear industrial sized ear plugs when doing so....
My dad used to tell me stories about how it was his job to take care of the horses and hook up the buggy or the sleigh in winter. The way he would tell the stories you could imagine you were right there wrapped up in blankets and hearing the bells jingling and the horses breathing hard to get through the snowdrifts.
Jingle Bells
Progressives Smell
Like the pits of hell
Oh what fun it is to Yell
that Trump is POTUS swell-ell
Jingle bells
MAGA sells
To the Freepers here
Oh what fun it is to hear
Merry Christmas again this year.
Ho,ho,ho and God Bless America
Kyna Hamill’s brain is rooted in cow dung.
““Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” “
Possibly the most nonsensical psychobabble I’ve ever read.
From what I’m hearing from these SJW pooffessors all that mames us civilized is racist.
Some races have civilization and others don’t.
It’s all bull. What he’s really saying is that Christmas sucks and that everything Whitey says or does is evil racist.
defund colleges who support these Cretans who teach our children everything anti American
God daxxit! I hate these people. Stupid whining N-word. Go fxxk yourself you pseudo intellectual. You are only good enough to clean the dirtiest truck stop toilets. Damn you and all like you.
Islam was founded on rape, murder, and slavery so it needs to be ended as well.
Sound and fury signifying nothing.
Birds will peck at animal droppings to extract the undigested seeds which pass through. Some people are so full of it that even the birds won’t eat it!
The most racist ones are those who point fingers and yell about it the loudest.
When in worry,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and shout!
 Blue Christmas (youtube song video) |
This nonsense is not even worth a response!
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