Despite the song’s controversial lyrics, Churchill Downs continues to have it be part of its Kentucky Derby pageantry.
There is always a reporter (or blogger) around, hoping to rain on everybody’s parade.
GO TO HELL, you creep, trying to destroy every morsel of Americana. Stephen C. Foster is a national treasure.
There are renditions that have brought tears to my eyes.
Sincerely - we don't care. Now GFY.
Signed, normal Americans
Bump
Oh, he’s just bummed because he was going to spot a twenty on the long shot but had to get another 150 words into his opinion piece before the race.
The racist left loves racism and injecting it into everything possible. They don’t want people to be able to enjoy their lives.
That’s it. I’m boycotting Sports Illustrated — oh, wait, the Swimsuit Issue! /sarc
The leftists forced the removal of the Stephen Foster statue from outside of the Carnegie Museum & Library in Pittsburgh. They didn’t like the fact there was a black male sculpted also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster_(sculpture)
Everything is always “racist” to the far left, crap-eating maggots. Screw them. If they don’t like My Old Kentucky Home, I suggest they move their asses to Red China or North Korea. Racist slobs.
The song is a about the plight of slaves who have been cruelly sold down the river.
Foster originally wrote the song in response to Stowe’s novel as “Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night.”
Merriam Webster has the gall to define “darky” in their racist dictionary. It, and all other dictionaries, should be banned.
Remember the Democratic Party was the mainstay of the KKK and still uses a version of hidden plantation racism to get votes
Instead of hitting on lyrics written to a beautiful tune 170 years ago they should rap about the tuneless lyrics being written today.
GOOD FOR CHURCHILL DOWNS.
History is history.
Everything that is negative that blacks PERCEIVE has happened to them cannot be blamed on a song.
Welfare has allowed millions of layabout persons to proliferate. They cannot take care of themselves & are more demanding than feral cats.
I have a bunch of songs by Sons of the Pioneers. They do a bunch of old traditional songs like “Old Kentucky home”. They use term ‘darkies’ in the several different tunes. I was driving with a friend and one of those came on. He looked at me and asked “did they really just say that”? Yup. says I, the line was “darkie picks the cotton, but white man makes the money”. It was truth, and not prettied up. Of course it was recorded in the 30s or 40s, so kinda predates political correctness.
Let’s just go the absurd since we can beat them there: Ban black people for being black, that’s racist!