Posted on 04/18/2019 4:33:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The Yankees have taken a stand against racism for their seventh-inning stretch.
For 18 years, Yankee Stadium regularly used Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of “God Bless America” in the middle of the seventh inning. But they ditched it altogether this season, replacing Smith’s rendition with different versions of the song. Why? As the Daily News learned, the Yankee were made aware of Smith’s history of potential racism.
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Except for coffee you and I are in agreement.
I just transferred to a new position at work. My new boss is a sports junkie as are my department mates. One even works part time for a NFL team.
I have no time in my life for stick and ball sports and have gotten into some nice “nascar is too a sport” arguments with my boss.
The left hates God, America and the notion that it is blessed. Therefore the song makes lefty heads explode.
What is Yankees?
Irving Berlin was also Jewish, and since the dems hate Jews, they hate God Bless America.
Baseball is worthless communist trash.
Here's one of Kate's live performances way back in the old glory days of the Flyers at the old "Spectrum" in Philadelphia...
"Kate Smith from the Flyers vs Bruins Stanley Cup Playoffs May 19th 1974"
Not as bad as the idiots further north who changed the name of Yawkey Way, but this is stupid, too.
You forgot this one
Kate Smith’s God Bless America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zF7a0wB-Lg
And one of favorite thanks to Lee Greenwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E
(The July 4th after 9-11 my kids and I started to sing it during the fire works and everybody around us joined in. Best 4th Ever!!!
The three laws of Stupid Dynamics
1) the accumulation of stupidity
Once it exist ideological stupidity accumulates in the minds of true believers in direct proportion to their lack of hardships of everyday life.
2) the conservation of stupidity
Stupidity, even more than evil, is the a lasting accomplishment enduring after them in any life that has graduated from mere reckless foolishness, your proverbial “Hey, y’all watch me do this.”, to one where their ideology makes the survival of others and the culture LESS likely.
3) the gravitas of stupidity
Real stupidity than can threaten many cannot be accomplished by the merely dumb and ignorant but requires maleducation, intellect and credentials to find a niche where it can do the most harm: the truly Stupid rise to the highest position in society that their fellow travelers have yet taken control of.
From Wiki...
Smith had a controversial top-20 hit in 1931 titled “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” and endorsed the Mammy Doll in 1939, which the Daily News states was based on a racist caricature of a black woman. She also sang and appeared in a video for the jingle “Pickaninny Heaven,” which contains racist lyrics and imagery.[21]
So the New York Hypocrites are worried about “potential racism”??
Here’s a good read from 2013:
“Yet, the current Yankees claim to be heirs to all that has come before: If they win the World Series this year, they will claim it is their 28th world championship, not their first. Babe Ruth’s and Lou Gehrig’s numbers hang on the wall. So, you can’t have it both ways: if you take the good parts of the heritage, you also have to take the bad, and it remains true that a baseball team known as the Yankees refused to employ African Americans for the first 52 years of its existence, far longer than every team except the Phillies, Tigers, and Red Sox.
In 1946, Baseball set up an ownership “steering committee” in response to Branch Rickey’s signing of Robinson. The committee’s final report, authored by MacPhail, showed that in the main its goal was not to further integration but to suppress it, reasoning that if teams added African American players, there would also be African American fans in the stands, and in turn fewer white fans. Thus would franchise values be destroyed. “The employment of a Negro on one AAA League club in 1946 resulted in a tremendous increase in Negro attendance at all games in which the player appeared... The situation might be presented, if Negroes participate in major-league games, in which the preponderance of Negro attendance in parks such as Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds, and Comiskey Park could conceivably threaten the value of the major league franchises owned by these clubs.”
The report repeated the traditional calumny that since black athletes hadn’t been allowed into the minors, they couldn’t possibly be refined or professional enough to participate in the majors. Why they hadn’t been recruited into the white minors or how that situation might be remedied was never addressed — the minors were just a convenient scapegoat. If only the minors would let in black athletes, the cry went, then we might have someone worth promoting. But since they don’t...
Finally, the report got to the heart of the matter, the only one that transcended pure bigotry: money. “The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in organized baseball. Many major and minor league clubs derive substantial revenue from these rentals. (The Yankee organization, for instance, nets nearly $100,000 a year from rentals and concessions in connection with Negro league games at the Yankee Stadium in New York — and in Newark, Kansas City, and Norfolk).” “
Total hypocrites...
Original article: https://www.pinstripealley.com/2013/4/15/4228172/jackie-robinson-day-new-york-yankees-vic-power-elston-howard
I wonder how long her statue outside of the arena where the Flyers play will still be up.
Evil is raining daily in America and evil reigns today’s America.
“Potential Racism”
Kind of like impeaching Trump for merely THINKING about possibly ending the investigation.
Now that was real Old Time Hockey!
I wouldn't brag about that if I were you. You're a "potential racist" for having watched and heard her. Can't be too careful these days. Lucky that those FReepers reading this post don't know you or maybe we would all be accused of potential racism, too.
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