Posted on 05/12/2019 6:13:35 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America” has been scrapped at Yankee Stadium, but Bronx Bomber fans are going to bat for her over allegations of racism.
Smith’s niece, Suzy Andron, told The Post she is “honored” by the groundswell of support for the late singer among fans and media.
Smith’s niece, Suzy Andron, told The Post she is “honored” by the groundswell of support for the late singer among fans and media.
“Most are solidly behind the positive notion that this is a misunderstanding by a few people who took two or three of her songs [out of 3,000 that she recorded] out of context and inflated a story that my Aunt Kathryn must have been a racist,” Andron said.
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A shorter list would be what SJWs are not offended by. God is at the top of their hate list.
The only honorable thing for the Yankees to do scrub those years from history, vacate their World Series championships, and return the trophies.
We're waiting...
Good. This entire thing is stupid. She sang songs of the time. It’s not like she was the only one. These PCists are nut.
In Atlanta we are proud to have Timothy Miller. He sings God Bless America every Sunday home game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hu-x1_1WI
“It could be that backfired on the boycotters”
It did, tremendously. The reason was when Conservatives actually get together to accomplish something, it gets done. We took the ChikFilA boycott and threw it back in the rats faces. That’s Power!!
Now, if we actually decided to come together to boycott something, we can change things very quickly. This is why shows like The View and others are still on the air. We have the plans, but we do not have the will or leadership to move something like this forward. I believe that comes from the Tea Party movement and how no one was a real leader, just a bunch of individuals with a shared belief.
That public shared belief is a winner for Conservatives. Instead of us always talking about it, might be time for us to do something about it.
The team managers are in dire need of testosterone injections.
Looks like some men have evolved folding backbones.
Occupy the stadium and block the entrances!
Control the language and you control the people!
Too bad they’re not playing a home game on July 4. That would be a perfect day for nobody to show up for the game.
Just wait until they ban Beer because of CO2
Lots of sports fans are dyed-in-the-wool Patriots..and they consider Kate to be the same...I grew up listening to her sing (belt) some very American songs...
They might call themselves liberals/progressives, but I doubt most of them even know what those words mean. What’s happening here is that the country is being run by LOUD, STUPID people with lots of time on their hands who believe every story the Democrats plant in the mainstream media, and every meme they see on Facebook — especially the anti-Trump ones.
We shouldn’t give them credit by calling them “liberal” or “progressive” or any term that gives them legitimacy. They are STUPID sheep, usually smug and self-righteous and completely ignorant of history. They hear about some incident that happened a century or two centuries ago and start squawking like it happened yesterday. They have no concept that Americans learned and moved on from those old attitudes.
It brings to mind Booker T. Washington’s quote: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Rousing up various splinter groups while deteriorating ACTUAL education seems to be working well for the Democrats. A STUPID, easily-led population is PRECISELY what they want and need.
If fans don’t fight, they join allegiance to the problem that kills their kids.
Don’t repeat the 80’s and 90’s that led to this!
I remember that day. I had tried CFA a couple of times before, but I went during the boycott and have been going strong every since. The huge lines, the happy customers, the busy staff all sent a message -
Discontents are not going to tell me how I am going to eat, or where I spend my money.
I am an early baby-boomer. Kate Smith and her God Bless America rendition were a mainstay in my upbringing. 3 cheers for Yankee fans who are not going to let a few lyrics sung at a time when everyone was singing them to ruin a greatly deserved reputation.
The Mission BBQ chain stops all business at noon every day and honors our nation with the National Anthem. Everyone stands and sings along.
I try to make it a point to be in the restaurant before noon when I’m there for lunch.
Oh, and their smokers are restored Deuce and a half’s https://mission-bbq.com/
Oh wait, that was Red Sox fans I called retarded. Nevermind.
Extremely cool!!!
Except that the lyrics were a parody of segregationists and black-haters and meant to make fun of them. But don't expect the left to let facts stand in the way of their hategasms.
Ome catchy promo, like Snow Tire Day, will bring the fans back.
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