Posted on 12/28/2021 9:54:21 AM PST by Red Badger
Stephen Foster songs?
He left about 200 songs, for most of which he wrote the words as well as the music. They include “Camptown Races,” “Nelly Bly,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground,” “Old Dog Tray,” “Old Black Joe,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.”
Just a typical WTF moment in a communist nation...
The Taliban and ISIS is handling that.......................
We sang most of those.
RE: In her research, the song’s first public performance may have occurred in a minstrel show nearly 150 years ago, where white actors performed in blackface.
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Blackface was worn by young Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante and many others. Wikipedia has a list of perhaps 100 of them. The most famous use was by Al Jolson who championed rights in the entertainment world for blacks. He made enemies by promoting black rights long before it was a virtue signaling thing.
To somehow search back “150 years ago” as place for grudges means someone has a chip on their shoulder. It was cruel to kill whales for oil as in Moby Dick.
Suwanee River was Florida’s State Song............
https://statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/florida/state-song/swanee-river
The left has the entire public education system in this country.
Does it trouble these enlightened educators to support a political party with such a racist history?
RE: “Christmas without Jingle Bells isn’t Christmas.”
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True. That’s the idea.
No use of “Merry Christmas” in retail stores or doctor’s offices or clinics. And other places.
No school or office tie ins with Christmas. “Holiday party” or “Winter Season Party” but not Christmas party.
If atheists and agnostics weren’t so lazy they would demand we all work on Christmas day. The time off appeals to their sluggardly nature, though.
The Inquisition assigned the accused a lawyer and heard evidence.
I think this would qualify as folklore a negative type of folklore but folklore and oral tradition none the less.
I used to live next to a black lady who was educated, and one day she told me the story of the origins of the word “picnic” which she believed wholeheartedly...
According to the oral legend that she embraced the word “picnic” was a term describing a lunch basket that was taken to a lynching where (whites) would watch, enjoy the days activities.
Wow! I backed away slowly, and really sort of avoided contact with that nut job after that. I was taken aback because she was an educated woman.
A quick search and even Webster’s 1955 unabridged dictionary revealed to me that picnic is a French word that meant a basket of food and not at all what this lady grew up believing with all her heart and mind.
Picnic
Pique-nique
mid 18th century (denoting a social event at which each guest contributes a share of the food): from French pique-nique, of unknown origin.
Amazing!
There is nothing more tied to slavery than the demonratic party. Why is it still allowed to exist?
“The Inquisition assigned the accused a lawyer and heard evidence”
If the accused renounced their crime or sin they were given the luxury of being garroted at the stake before the fires were lighted.
Yes!
“..the use of collars on slaves with bells may be connected to the origin of the song..”
Never heard that one before. Sad part is whoever made this up isn’t the least bit ashamed. Did they notice the “one horse open sleigh” part?
Written by Foster for a minstrel show.
So ban Jingle Bells because of something that MAY have happened 150 years ago that was perfectly acceptable at the time. AND ban it because idiots think it is describing slaves wearing bells around their necks? Why give in to these idiots. And I suppose next year it will be double dog banned because it promotes horse abuse and causes global warming.
Thanks.. I always associated Jingle Bells, to the HORSES.. and Sleigh Bells in the snow. I wonder if we keep looking maybe we could offend someone else and ban.. SILENT NIGHT. It as about a Fat (ROUND) young virgen!!!!
Jingle Bells was written by James Lord Pierpont. The song was originally performed in a Sunday school concert on Thanksgiving in Savannah, Georgia, although it has been claimed that Pierpont wrote it in Medford, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1859, it was re-released with the title “Jingle Bells, or The One Horse Open Sleigh”. The song was not a hit as Pierpont had originally published it.
This is just another of the lefts made up “non-troversies” to try and destroy yet another American tradition. This sone obviously has nothing to do with slavery.
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