Multiple professional sports franchises are distancing themselves from legendary 1930s singer Kate Smith due to her alleged history of singing racist songs.
Last week, the New York Yankees pulled Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America” from the stadium’s 7th-inning stretch, which had been a tradition at Yankee Stadium for nearly two decades. Then, on Easter Sunday, the Philadelphia Flyers announced that they had removed a statue of Smith from outside the team’s arena.
“The Flyers have enjoyed a long and popular relationship with ‘God Bless America,’ as performed by the late Kate Smith, a woman who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor for her patriotic contributions to our nation,” the Flyers said in a statement Sunday. “But in recent days, we learned that several of the songs Kate Smith performed in the 1930s include lyrics and sentiments that are incompatible with the values of our organization, and evoke painful and unacceptable themes.”
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11 comments:
I'm calling bullsh*t on this. When is the sanity going to stop? When we the people stand up and say enough is enough.
commies doing what they do best re-writing history
Time to remove all of JFK stuff. He was a "Racist" also, he refused to allow Sammy Davis Jr. to attend his inaugural celebrations because Sammy was married to a Swedish Woman! He felt it was an Obamanation that a Blackman was married to a white woman!
Instead of just saying her lyrics are RACIST. Let's hear WHAT THEY ARE. EVERY news outlet tells you what they did. Why they did it. But haven't given any examples. WHAT LYRICS?? Can't be any worse than a RAP SONG WITH N****R IN IT!!
I thought Kate Smith was one of the 3 Charlie's Angles.
She sang a song in 1938 to some orphan black kids in an orphanage over the radio. The song had the words, "Mammy, and Pickaniny' in it. That is her big crime. 1938!!!
Abe Lincoln said loads of "Racist" things in the Whitehouse, are they going to go after him next?
The PC insanity continues.
Just wait until the "social media generation" all go into the workplace or politics.
That said, I DO have an ace up my sleeve.
Back around 1998 a high school senior spammed me and my family very, very badly on AOL.
He tried to stay anonymous, but I researched and found out exactly who he was, where he went to school, his circle of friends, etc.
His words today would more than qualify as serious threats and even hate crimes.
I copied and saved every single thread - every single word - and still have it.
He now is a big-time attorney in Washington, DC.
I pray that he runs for office someday, only because paybacks are hell, and Karma WILL bite you in the $ss!
It's not like she sang that song in black face like Joleson. Paul Robeson a black man sang the same song and Old Man River.
Izzzzzzz get wearyyyyy and sick of tryinnnnn
Izzzzz tiredddd of livinnn and fearfullzzzzzz of dyingzzzzz
I mean come on it was another era. I am sure Kate would sing anything that paid.
Every seen Song of the South or Little Rebel. Temple went on to be ambassador to Ghana.
Modern Jazz performers dismissed Armstrong as a step and fetch it Uncle Tom but with out him they'd had not act to follow.
Ice Tea writes a cop killing Rap and ends up on prime time TV and married to a white bombshell with half the IQ of Jane Mansfield.....no Anna Nicole Smith.
The problem with POP culture entering into anything is these people are not REAL they will do or say anything for money that's what being paid to pretend is.
We had an actor for president and could not recall much of what he was scripted to say after the fact and we have one now that wish he could get away talking like Andrew Dice Clay and people lap it up.
Year down the LBJ library, then.
If God Bless America has been good enough all these years, and good enough for our forefathers it is good enough today. Stop with trying to make everything a rock that needs to be turned over. Eventually they will stop making white bread because it's racist do you see how silly this is getting?
If she sang "Allah Bless America" all would be forgiven.
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