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To: Kid Shelleen; Buckeye McFrog
. . . amid concerns over racist lyrics in songs she recorded decades ago . . .

Exactly what were the lyrics? Stephen Foster supposedly had lyrics about African-Americans being homosexual in the summertime. So the idiot mayor of Pittsburgh had the statue of arguably the best musician this city ever produced removed.

6 posted on 04/26/2019 10:29:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman
There are dozens of recordings of the Rat Pack shows with Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin using Amos and Andy type dialects and making off color jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHngNVPeQaY
8 posted on 04/26/2019 10:40:40 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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