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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People like this really don’t need all their teeth. They just get in the way of expelling all that hot air.
No, it’s a line of inclusion. You should have gay apperal on-hand when decking the halls with boughs of holly. “Fa la la la laaah...”
Obviously, this person has far too much time on his hands.
The left hates Trump, so they’re out to ruin Christmas and every other thing that middle America enjoys.
Their hatred used to be mostly below ground for pragmatic reasons.
Shaddap and go make me a sammich, bitch.
Somebody should email this delightful link of Der Bingle and Sleeping Beauty singing a rendition of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6YLqhUuGPo
“Hey Professor. Ask me if I care.
And my answer is...
FLOCK NO !”
This is easy. Anything white is anti-black and therefore white culture must be destroyed and erased.
The word “problematic” is used by leftists to mean “not politically correct.” I find this to be...problematic.
*applause*
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