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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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Believe this story got pulled earlier, because of it being from a non reliable source.
“Jingle Bells” is NOT really a Christmas carol! It is a winter song.
No mention of Jesus Christ, His Incarnation, His birth from a human Mother, etc.
We have several winter songs that allow our non-Christian friends to celebrate Christmas along with us. But they remain winter songs, not Christmas carols or hymns.
Soon, however, the feminazi crowd will find ways to decry real Christmas hymns—even Orthodox troparia—as racist” and “bigoted”. Phooey, anyway!
Very nice. I enjoyed that.
The wisdom on offer in ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is apparently over the pointy little heads of this nitwit and her ilk.
Boston University theater professor is an @#%***!
just wait until these stupid lunatic crazy idiots hear White Christmas!
ha ha
That idiot Kyna is sure to label it racist along with every other song composed by non-minorities.
PURE CRAP!
PURE CRAP!
(Who Knew?)
Better yet - who cares?
What's a "Kyna"? Then again, I'm not sure I want to know.
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You must not be from the upper classes. You jingle a little bell to summons your domestic to come and fetch what you need. If you need it in a hurry and they are slow, you jingle it all the way until they get to you.
So “Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle all the way” is really a commentary of chastisement of your slow moving darkie.
The sleigh, of course, is a sleigh bed, where you have your one ho (later Bowdlerized to ‘horse’). This being a family friendly site, I won’t go into further detail.
Think I can get a job as an English prof at a University?
I call it the 'Date Rape Song'. Listen to the lyrics - after he fails to talk her into bed, he spikes her drink.
Sounds like your a natural for a university career.
Nicely done. If you want a third party to link a university staff member to your post, let me know.
“:^)
Marxist tool, Kyna Hamill.
Thus I doubt the claim and label it hogwash.
"Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
Jingle all the way...."
But maybe those weren't the original lyrics.
Of course those were the original lyrics. Next thing you know somebody's going to be telling us that "Walking 'Round In Women's Underwear" weren't the original lyrics. I'll keep my traditions, thank you very much.
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