Brighton elementary school bans 'Jingle Bells' due to song's 'questionable past'

https://13wham.com ^ | December 27th 2021 | by TYLER BROWN | WHAM Staff

[Red Badger]

The left has RUINED the entire public education system in this country.........................

[sauropod]

What drivel.

[Mr. K]

The lunatics are running the asylum.

[pepsi_junkie]

I think if someone wanted to write a racist song about slaves in collars with bells on in the 1860s they wouldn’t have felt the need to hide it in a song about people laughing on a sleigh ride with horses having bells on their tails.

[chopperk]

What messed up staff at that school, they should be replaced.

[Ikeon]

I’m guessing “father Christmas” by the Kinks is right out too?

[matchgirl]

As I understand it, Jingle Bells was written about the sleigh races that were held on Salem Street in Medford Massachusetts every winter.

A former Medfordite.

Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year!

[DiogenesLamp]

So, because there is a CHANCE this was performed by white people in blackface AND it MIGHT mean something about slaves with bells on, we need to get rid of it.

Because slaves are "dashing through the snow" pulling a "one horse open sleigh"?

The person who banned Jingle Bells is an idiot and they should be mocked and ridiculed for being a willfully stupid person.

[Red Badger]

Anything with ‘Christ’ in it is verboten......................

[Magnatron]

Is the “Batman Smells” version banned too?

[dfwgator]

Robin laid an egg, vegans don’t like that.

[DesertRhino]

“Finally, if there is ever a question as to whether or not something might be experienced differently by someone else, shouldn’t we be respectful of that? Is singing the song “Jingle Bells” so important that it outweighs the question about its past or its potential to not be inclusive in a variety of ways.”

Yeah, it is that important. I notice the damned communists and black revolutionaries never have to think about whether or not WE might experience something differently and need to be respectful.

Screw em.. I hope the researcher and the author pump gas in Philly, and go to a lot of ATMs at night. Hopefully they will get the gratitude of the ones they love so much.

[DesertRhino]

Matt Tappon’s photo pegs the gaydar.

[Daffynition]

[bagster]

The article says a factor in the decision was research published in 2017 by Boston University professor Kyna Hamill.

I'm gonna have to go with the old four-eyed lesbian on this one. Jingle Bells is cultural appropriation at best, and mockery of addle-pated colored folk at best.

[dfwgator]

Well then so much for The Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”.....”I got a little change in my pocket goin’ ‘Jing-A-Ling-A-Ling’....”

[airdalechief]

(The stuperintendent’s email - kevin_mcgowan@bcsd.org)

E-Mail no longer workie. I think he is in hiding.

[Daffynition]

** In 1965, “Jingle Bells” became the first song broadcast from space when the astronauts aboard Gemini 6 decided to play a prank on Mission Control and performed the song on a harmonica and actual jingle bells they had smuggled on board.**

[leaning conservative]

China must be laughing hysterically.