Posted on 04/21/2019 2:42:22 PM PDT by janetjanet998
CNN)A year after her 1986 death, the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers erected a statue to honor renowned singer Kate Smith, whose rendition of "God Bless America" was played during home games for decades, including the 2018-2019 season. But on Sunday the Flyers announced they had removed the statue, saying the team had discovered some of her songs contained racist lyrics and sentiments that were "incompatible" with the organization's values.
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It is a shame. Was it the Bruins you were playing against?
Don’t go to Yankees games. They used to ban Black players. They have a racist past. Shun them.
It’s amazing how the narrative about democrats gets so ‘air-brushed’ such that they are all heroes and heroines fighting for ‘the people’. In truth, most of the most elitist, selfish, narrow-minded, and vindictive people I’ve met in my life are Democrats.
Let’s go after Warner Brothers for “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.”
It’s a cultural revolution Marxist style.
The Khmer Rouge started out like this. People laughed at them once too.
.....which is why the left feels her legacy must be destroyed, and any trace that Kate Smith ever existed must be obliterated.
Racist Bing Crosby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSekQ4Bp_s
Racist Frank Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwySOwzouz4
Racist Elvis Presley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD8f_HkD4Dc
And Finally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6rmtLNSyk
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 it’s presented as being politically correct to fit their distorted perverted revisionist views.
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 it’s presented as being politically correct to fit their distorted perverted revisionist views.
...meanwhile every 2020 democrat presidential candidate met with Al Sharpton. See tagline—
Yeah, the left loves to attack dead people who cannot speak for themselves. Those that don’t vote for them, they hate. The dead that is.
“Another is her 1933 recording, “Pickaninny Heaven,” which asks “colored children” living in an orphanage to dream about a magical place of “great big watermelons.””
Didn’t Elvis release a remake of that old tune?
What about all the Robert Byrd memorials? I’m like so offended.
How many black players do the Flyers have? Two? Is that a reflection of their values?
Our family used to watch Kate Smith’s TV show when it was on, and remember her singing that song. I believe it was her program’s theme song.
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