Posted on 12/24/2021 9:57:25 AM PST by Truth29
According to the school’s diversity page, there were songs that had been previously used that had a questionable past. One of the examples the school listed was “Jingle Bells.”
The school noted that other questionable songs were removed from the curriculum and “are no longer in our repertoire, and are replaced with more contemporary, and relevant content.”
The Beacon reports that the school’s decision was based on a 2017 article written by Boston University Professor Kyna Hamill. Hamill alleged she had found documents proving the song had first been performed publicly at a minstrel show in 1857.
When told of the primary school’s decision, the professor said she was stunned.
“I am actually quite shocked the school would remove the song from the repertoire. … I, in no way, recommended that it stopped being sung by children,” she told the newspaper. “My article tried to tell the story of the first performance of the song, I do not connect this to the popular Christmas tradition of singing the song now.”
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And then we got upsot!
Upsot, baby!
Robinette laid an egg. Hey it’s built in!
Naw, I like Yogi Jorgenson’s “I Yust go nuts at Christmas” along with “Yingle Bells.”
True...
Should we ban EVERYTHING that was shown at a minstrel show?
Lady if Christmas offends you, try North Korea. I see that they don't celebrate Christmas...
Re: Post 28.. Funny..
Hmm...Noah Webster’s dictionary of 1830 defined minstrel as “a singer and musical performer on instruments.” - nothing necessarily racial about it.
The earliest cite in google books I could find was 1876.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Carmina_Collegensia/860QAAAAYAAJ
which put it in a section called “Serenades, Glees, and Minstrel Songs.”
So if this is the same source, how did she know whether it was a serenade, a glee, or a minstrel song, and did minstrel song mean the same in 1857 as it does today?
Van Johnson, not Sammy Davis Jr., played The Minstrel in Batman (1966).
The problem is white people don’t fight back.
They just move somewhere else and hope the problems don’t follow them there.
The answer of course is to fight back and stop this nonsense in its tracks. Unfortunately we don’t have a political party that will do it.
I call it Political “White Flight”.
I’d sing it in a foreign language.
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