Posted on 04/19/2019 7:19:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The Yankees have decided to no longer run Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America” during their seventh-inning stretch because of Smith’s affiliation with songs that carried racist lyrics. Most famously, Smith sang a 1931 song, “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” which opened: “Someone had to pick the cotton, Someone had to pick the corn, Someone had to slave and be able to sing, That’s why darkies were born.” The song, which has been called a satirical take on racism, was a big hit for Smith, and also was recorded by Paul Robeson. When the Yankees last month became aware of Smith’s history, they switched to a keyboard version of “God Bless America.” The Yankees have played the song in the middle of every game since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the insistence of late owner George Steinbrenner. In 2009, the Yankees cut ties with singer Ronan Tynan, who had made numerous appearances at the Stadium to sing “God Bless America,” after he was alleged to have made anti-Semitic comments.
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I wonder if Yankee (wait, isn’t “Yankee” racist?) Stadium plays Michael Jackson songs such as “Beat It” which is probably his tribute to pokin’ little white boys?
Biden, Clinton and Obama were all against Gay Marriage before they “evolved”.
Why aren’t their past positions as Haters held against them?
People can’t get the sarcasm in it.
Hextall versus Potvin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMTjuspJlkg
Two goalies chugging down the ice like juggernauts...
Haha!!!
“THIS IS HOCKEY!!!”
Best fight ever: Garth Snow and Matt Barnaby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkIRluEbSs
At 1:09 you can see Garth Snow poke Barnaby with the golaie stick, and it’s game on...
Haha!!! Yes, it is!!! Philly style!
Why don’t the overpaid sports players and their owners play some baseball instead.
Why don’t the overpaid sports players and their owners play some baseball instead.
In his autobiography Color, Communism and Common Sense (Los Angeles: Betsy Ross Book Shop, 1958), Manning Johnson, a black man who was once a prominent Communist, made a similar observation about his white Communist colleagues.
, Impala64ssa wrote:
If the PC NOT SEES would research a little more, they would realize that song “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” was originally done by Paul Robeson and was actually critical of prejudice and segregation. But why let facts get in the way when getting offended for the sake of getting offended is so much more fun and profitable
Thanks for for posting that remark
Smith teamed up with known black communist Paul Robeson on some of that material. Which if examined was exposing racial difficulties experienced by blacks. Typical of the use of Perverse Cliometric tactics used by the left when it’s
presented as being politically correct to fit their distorted perverted revisionist views.
I just went to youtube and listened to Paul Robeson’s (who is black) version. I suppose it is racist because it is about race. But it is really about making the best of whatever situation you find yourself in.
Oh my, so now we’re not supposed to watch and enjoy the Dean Martin roasts with Don Rickles and ....oh I don’t know.....Sammy Davis Jr., Wilt Chamberlain, Nipsy Russell etc?
Liberals consider Kate Smith a racist, because she sang “That’s Why Darkies Were Born”. What they don’t tell you is that Paul Robles, a black opera singer, also sang it.
Interesting. Manning Johnson seemed like a Black Whittaker Chambers, or David Horowitz. Once a commie who came to his senses.
Don Rickles on one of the Dean Martin Roasts telling Sammy Davis Jr “we knew you were coming so we hid the silverware!”
Another item to add to the pile of facts to be ignored is that “God Bless America” was written in 1918 as a patriotic song by that notorious racist Irving Berlin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_America
Well, if covering a satirical song criticizing prejudice and segregation is enough erase a lifetime of achievement to cast a person like Kate Smith into the outer darkness of society, what are the critics going to do with this:
In 1858, Lincoln expressed his opposition to racial equality and asserted the superiority of white people.
Here is a evaluation of the statement as true by none other than Snopes.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-lincoln-racism-equality-oppose/
You will note that Snopes goes out of its way to buffer its finding of true with a series of quotes from recognized contemporary historians on his “evolving” views of racial equality so that Lincoln can retain his honored place in US history.
However, Lincoln is a repeat offender in this matter:
https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln95.html
By the “one instance is one instance too many” standard of the New York Yankees (and earlier, the Pittsburg Pirates), should we now veil the statues of Lincoln in shame wherever they are and begin prying his name off of public buildings and other structures?
What did the PittsburgH Pirates do?
A few others I could scrounge up to Sammy:
“I wish you wouldn’t touch me Sammy, you people rust.”
“Sammy, you’re a black man. I took a guess. If you ain’t black you fell into a bucket of M&M’s.”
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