Posted on 04/19/2019 11:48:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Until the annual Spike Lee film festival includes a remake of that film it is toast. Same with the black cast The Wiz (1978) replacing the Wizard of Oz. The World Trade Center was filmed as the Emerald City.
I remember Merv Griffin saying to one of its stars on TV “But, but you can’t. You can’t do that to the Wizard of Oz.” He was taken by surprise and didn’t have the phony PC lines ready until after the commercials later.
What are Yankees?
I don’t disagree.
As patriotic as I am, I never cared for Kate Smith’s version. She sounds like a drag queen...wait a minute, that could be an angle to get it reinstated!
Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot. In the 30s baseball was segregated. smh
Today's headlines are horrifying....the treatment of our President by a few is horrifying.....the abuse by our elected leaders the United States Constitution is horrifying. The Yankey's removal of a wonderful song about our nation is just one more surrender to some useful idiots funded by wealthy anti-Americans like George Soros.
Are the Yankee's guilty of racism? They are guilty of Censorship!
Today's headlines are horrifying....the treatment of our President by a few is horrifying.....the abuse by our elected leaders the United States Constitution is horrifying. The Yankey's removal of a wonderful song about our nation is just one more surrender to some useful idiots funded by wealthy anti-Americans like George Soros.
Are the Yankee's guilty of racism? They are guilty of Censorship!
Interesting timing.
The outrage monkeys now want to dump God Bless America.
Because, they say, Kate Smith sang some other songs.
But it’s not as if Kate Smith is on Top 40 radio every day, or the average kid even knows who Kate Smith was.
But isn’t God Bless America the same song American government workers spontaneously sang when they gathered on the steps of the US Capitol?
You know, on that day when some people did something?
What’s the real message here?
Are we being told God won’t be allowed to be in charge? Is He being replaced by Allah?
ALL the past has to be erased so that Socialism or Islam can be imposed on America. That is why the schools do not teach History any more and have not taught it for several generations. A population that knows nothing of the past is amenable to anything that sounds good. The majority of the US population has been publicschooled to know nothing of history or morals or civics so that they have become mostly clay in the communist potters’ hands.The homeschooling phenomenon has developed too slowly and will be outlawed once the Democrats get voted in again and I am not optimistic at all about 2020. The Vote fraud was tested out big time in 16 and 18 and the SocDems know well now how to overcome real-vote Republican majorities of any size and WILL NOT BE CONTESTED. It will be easy with SocDems in control of major cities in almost all states.
When are they going to start removing statutes and plaques of baseball heroes that might have been racist?
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That would include all the players before Jackie Robinson, and any of their records.
And a bunch afterwards, as he was beginning his career.
Their Revolution continues.
I would argue the lyrics are not racist,
but give evidence for reparations.
Thus they are double-good.
Implication that African Americans are darker skinned than Caucasians. Before the 1960s that was an insult (and also a fact). Lena Horne,Dorothy Dandridge and Bessie Smith were shown as lighter in advertising in order to avoid this.
As of the late 1960s "Black Is Beautiful" was a good thing to say. Singer Marilyn McCoo of the Fifth Dimension and countless others could openly be said to be beautiful as well as black. The first black woman as the Playboy centerfold was another milestone (not exactly the Supreme Court but a milestone).
Leonard Cohen song Everybody Knows
And everybody knows that it's now or never Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever Ah, when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming Everybody knows that it's moving fast Everybody knows that the naked man and woman Are just a shining artifact of the past Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed That will disclose What everybody knows (I wonder if Facebook,Instagram or Google will own the rights to the first meter on our beds? Probably already being worked on.)
They ruin everything.
Unless the people of this country repent for their wickedness and self-indulgence. . .Asking God to Bless America may be for naught.
Love my Yankees! But, at one time they didn’t want any blacks on the team! Elston Howard played hell being on the Yankees! Bunch of racists, those Yankees! They should be banned from baseball!
"It was a different time, you understand....1957, or '58!"
Then more years of compound interest are to be added to the reparations we will have to pay. We can't win.
The Yankees also signed a UN Climate Change agreement to protest not signing on to the Paris Accords. The Yankees are obviously trying to make baseball as leftist activist as the other sports.
Well blacks and other minorities seem to be very racist in the current age. So can we now ban ALL of their music?
How stupid can they get?
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