Posted on 12/15/2017 2:25:36 PM PST by broken_arrow1
“Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist.
A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas carol has a “problematic history” because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans.
“The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Kyna Hamill, a BU theater historian, wrote in her “Theatre Survey” research paper on the story of “Jingle Bells.”
“Although ‘One Horse Open Sleigh,’ for most of its singers and listeners, may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States,” she wrote.
Hamill started researching the history of the famous Christmas carol after a so-called “Jingle Bells War” – a dispute between two towns, Medford, Mass. and Savannah, Ga. – that claim to be the birthplace of the song written by James Pierpont.
“Its origins emerged from the economic needs of a perpetually unsuccessful man, the racial politics of antebellum Boston, the city’s climate, and the intertheatrical repertoire of commercial blackface performers moving between Boston and New York,” Hamill wrote.
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This kind of inane act of seeing ‘racism’ everywhere in everything is what is turning off the white middle class to liberal Democrat rubbish.
White folks who have never done any harm to or spoken derogatorily about black Americans are sick and tired of being told they are ‘inherently’ racist just for being born ‘white’ and that American history is nothing but a history of oppressive racism that white people should be ashamed of.
Calls for ‘reparations’ usually follow and are studiously ignored by the 72% of white Americans that are expected to pay for it. Yeah. No.
She is certainly one of the most articulate imbeciles I have ever read an excerpt from.
To the liberal prof: blow it out your butt loser.
And I was told that “Baby, it’s cold outside” is misogynist and promotes rape culture. I kid you not, I heard it on the radio.
CC
EEEENOUGH!!!!!!!
Guilty. Nuke it from orbit (while playing “Jingle Bells”).
Oh, hail no! The beotch is white! She don’t know spit from Shinola ‘bout no racism.
It was mentioned in a different thread a few days ago. 😄
She looks like Sandra Fluke with hair dye.
[What about “White Christmas?”]
DU and HuffPo are busy writing the articles right now.....
Sheesh....
women; smh...
They get more and more harebrained!
The war drum is beating
Prepare for the fight!
The stern bigot Northman
Exults in his might
Gird on your bright weapons
Your foe men are nigh
And this be our watchword,
"We conquer or die!"
And this be our watchword,
"We conquer or die!"
The trumpet is sounding
From mountain to shore
Your swords and your lances
Must slumber no more!
Fling forth to the sunlight
Your banner on high!
Inscribed with the watchword:
"We conquer or die!"
Inscribed with the watchword:
"We conquer or die!"
March on to the battlefield,
There to do or to dare
With shoulder to shoulder
All danger to share
And let your proud watchword
Ring up to the sky
Till the blue arch re-echoes,
"We conquer or die!"
Till the blue arch re-echoes,
"We conquer or die!"
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Well she's already in Boston.
Trans? (looking at pic)
I thought it was Deck The Malls.
Heh, she’s not fit to shine Navin’s shoes.
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