Posted on 05/12/2019 11:43:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Yankees fans are calling for a boycott in response to the team’s banning of Kate Smith’s version of God Bless America. The team ditched the late singer’s rendition after a they learned Smith had also sung some controversial songs about blacks back in the 1930s.
According to the New York Post Yankees fans have been bombarding social media with a multitude of criticism for the team’s decision to ban the singer from Yankee Stadium.
For instance, one fan wrote, “boycotting the Yankees until Kate Smith is back, otherwise I am kissing a half century of loyalty goodbye.”
Die-hard Yankees fan James Foley even sent a scolding letter to Yankee owner Hal Steinbrenner saying, “Your father [George Steinbrenner] is turning in his grave.”
Foley added that if the same standards used to ban Smith were turned against many of the most famous past Yankees players, many would be similarly banned, including such famed players as Babe Ruth.
“Why not purge the lot of them and be honest about your political correctness. Remove the plaques from Monument Park,” Foley scoffed.
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The Yankees were dead to me the instant the wrecking ball made contact with the House that Ruth Built.
Yeah, do so and watch the Democrats and the media smear Republicans nonstop.
Then watch the GOP lose the Hispanic and black vote.
They should also stand their ground.
We are lifelong Yankee fans. We are fans since Mickey mantle and Roger Maris played. We are not Puerto Rican ir apt city dwellers. Yes we are very upset with what they did to Kate Smith. I live the Yankees cause they have strict stesz rules for their uniform and no facial hair.
Agree. Husband went once to the new stadium as he got free tickets. 35 bucks to park your car????? Outrageous.
Ah, but did Kaepernick ever get back to a team?
This country will never be free until liberals turn off their “offended switch” and Grow up!
Exactly. YES, their TV network, is a gold mine.
So the boycott should be directed at advertisers on the Yankees network then.
Told my SIL who lives in Boston “we don’t much care for the damn Yankees down here in Dixie.” He says “yeah, we don’t like em either.”
NY Yankees? Who dat?
Oh yeah, they play plastic whiffle ball with their Moms cheering them on.
So I guess playing “Song of the South” on the scoreboard during rain delays is completely out of the question?
Zip a dee do dah, zip a dee ay :)
I think the three problems with Kate Smith’s singing God Bless America according to anti-Americans are these:
God implies the existence of the Creator to be worshipped.
Bless implies God cares and intervenes when prayers are within His Plan.
America puts the unimportant and unexceptional country founded on racist exploitation ahead of its small role in the large United Nations that should oversee all its people and rule them.
Hiya, Frank.
I’d agree with you completely if God Bless America were the cause of this brouhaha. Sadly, you have tilted the wrong wind mill. The controversy is over songs many years ago that had ‘darkies’ in the lyrics. Not GBA. Sorry.
Never liked them but Billy Martin was funny on the beer commercials.
The Yankees were dead to me the instant the wrecking ball made contact with the House that Ruth Built.
The house that Ruth built was in effect destroyed in the mid 1970s when they refurbished it. Ugly new cantilever grandstands and fake fiberglass facade. The new new stadium is much more like the spirit of the house that Rupert and Ruth built. (I’ve been to all three)
I think I see how I’m wrong, but does this mean if you disagree with one Rolling Stones song (maybe Brown Sugar implying racial differences to the disadvantage of African American women, or Under My Thumb implying lower status for feminists....) then we can’t play “Satisfaction” or the other songs on the compilations Grrrrr or Honk?
I’m just being difficult.I know you’re right and the other Kate Smith songs were the trigger. I admit it.
Hey, I’m with you. I posted a Dr Seuss cartoon about blacks and got suspended for it. Mark Twain would have been banned for Huckleberry Finn. History is full of pegs for grievance-mongers to hang their hats on. Luckily, as a lad raised with “free, white, and 21,” I laugh at their tears.
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