Posted on 04/19/2019 8:16:43 AM PDT by LavaDog
The Flyers are scrubbing connections with famed singer Kate Smith as the team investigates racist lyrics in several of her songs. That includes covering a bronze statue of Smith that stands outside Xfinity Live! and removing her iconic recording of “God Bless America” from their playlist.
“We have recently become aware that several songs performed by Kate Smith contain offensive lyrics that do not reflect our values as an organization,” the Flyers said in a statement. "As we continue to look into this serious matter, we are removing Kate Smith’s recording of 'God Bless America’ from our library and covering up the statue that stands outside of our arena.”
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Damn, now hockey.
There is no escape from liberal fascism.
And not one statue of Senator KKK Bryd has been removed in WV . How utterly awful and hypocritical!
Kate Smith was also close to the late Senator Jesse Helms, who convinced President Reagan to give Smith a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Just stupid.
What’s the offensive lyric?
So what are the songs? Offensive lyrics means no RAP Hi-Hop played either I assume
Wait until they ban the airing of any movie made prior to 1990.
The original 1932 Weissmuller “Tarzan the ape Man” would give the Lunatics on the Left massive strokes.
I wonder how All In The Family would be portrayed today.
I’m basically about done supporting big corporate sports with nonsense like this. I will watch the odd game on television, but if I lived in a big American city, you could forget about me bothering to buy their tickets or even accepting free ones from a workplace. And I certainly will not patronize their boutiques of over priced, cheap garbage that they put their stamp on.
I can think of many other activities that do not put money in the pockets of these idiots that are more enjoyable and personally fulfilling.
Watched Blazing Saddles the other day. Can you imagine trying to get that produced these days?
The reason they’re dumping her was because the composer of that song was Irving Berlin. With a name like that, he must have been a dirty Nazi, creating those racist white Nazionalist words! < /s >
From the article:
“The Flyers’ move comes just a day after the New York Yankees decided to pull Smith’s 1939 version of “God Bless America,” which the team has played at Yankee Stadium in the middle of the seventh inning for 18 years. The Yankees said in a statement they were investigating the claims of racism in some of Smith’s past songs, and while the team has not yet made a final conclusion, it was “erring on the side of sensitivity.”
In 1931, Smith recorded a song titled “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” written by Ray Henderson and Lew Brown, which includes the lyrics, “Someone had to pick the cotton.” There is some question about the satirical nature of the song, which was also recorded by African-American artist Paul Robeson and referenced in the 1933 Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.
In the 1933 film Hello, Everbody! Smith sings “Pickaninny Heaven,” a song that directs “colored children” living in an orphanage to fantasize about a place with “great big watermelons.”
It’s unclear what prompted both the Flyers and the Yankees to act now, considering the songs have been around for more than 80 years”.
Wow. What will happen when abortion is recognized as the abject evil that it is.
What’s the offensive lyric?..,.to them it’s probably “America”
Tear up the Stadium!!!!!..leave the historic statue alone.....
When they’ve scrubbed history of everything, the only thing left will be rap music. Which is worse than everything they banned. The Left is madness.
“It’s unclear what prompted both the Flyers and the Yankees to act now, considering the songs have been around for more than 80 years”.”
Next on the fascists’ hit list after Stephen Foster?
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