Think this proclamation will lead to the restoration of the statue to public view?
Think this proclamation will lead to the restoration of the statue to public view?
Incredible. Stephen Foster wrote characteristic songs of the day for white audiences, and his entire catalogue of his most later famouse songs were sold for 25K in 1850-55 to Mr. Christy... the largest promoter/owner of a traveling show... the Christy Minstrels (who performed in blackface).
One of his most controversial songs was “Angelina Baker”. The lyrics are incontrovertibly about a slave love affair that was never to be. The field slave in love with a beautiful house servant/slave, who is then suddenly gone (impression left she was sold away). Angelina Baker was revolutionary for its day- and was risque for the minstrel show to perform as it was highly political.
For these cultural marxists to decide 1.) Foster is “standing” (he isn’t) over a slave (it is a guy with a banjo who is very much a white man in facial features) and 2.) this is OFFENSIVE to ... whom?- how did they come to this conclusion in the MIDDLE of freaking Pittsburgh which understands the largesse of LEARNING left by its most famous latter day citizen Andrew Carnegie (funding of libraries— everywhere- knowledge to fight racism).
You see- history must, Taliban like—be erased for the Progressive neo-marxist socialists to continue to separate all US citizens from themselves and their UNITY. It is straight out of the Commie 1920’s playbook.
Check out the removal from in front of the Maryland Capitol Building (by a REPUBLICAN ostensibly governor) of the Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. Kid you not— it happened recently.
What in the HELL is going ON? The liberal parade continues unabated— by whom... exactly?