Kate Smith: "All men are equal and have an equal right to enjoy the fruits of this earth."
Posted on 04/24/2019 7:19:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The New York Yankees Major League Baseball franchise took Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" off its seventh-inning stretch playlist when its managers learned of the singer's "history" of racism. Evidently, as reported in the New York Daily News, Kate Smith recorded a song and video in 1939 with blatant racist content.
In today's political climate in America, just as happened with Kate Smith and the N.Y. Yankees organization, if anyone or anything's past can be presumed in any way as racist, there is usually immediate condemnation and some sort of action taken to make things right for the offended masses.
Let's be very clear about what happened: this action was taken for the express purpose of indemnifying the N.Y. Yankees organization from any guilt for its 18-year association with playing Kate Smith's "God Bless America" recording. After all, dumping Kate Smith for what she did shows just how sensitive the N.Y. Yankees organization truly is when it comes to racism.
However, if you dig a little deeper, the racist actions of Kate Smith can't hold a candle to the racist past of Major League Baseball — including the N.Y. Yankees. In fact, MLB teams refused to hire qualified black players for decades, and well into the 20th century. If your past actions affect how you're viewed by today's standards, as the N.Y. Yankees deem the case to be with Kate Smith, this makes MLB one of the most racist organizations still active in America today.
So why, if there is supposed to be equal and consistent action taken against everyone and everything "presumed" to be racist, is MLB and all its teams still in business?
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Kate Smith or the democrat party?
The CORRECT way to fight this battle (If they want to fight)
Any Major League team in existence prior J R Robinson stepping onto a Major League Field in 1947 should be forced to pay the going salary to ANY and ALL survivors of the Negro Leagues adding those that may have made it had it not been for ACCEPTED HIRING PRACTICES.
Also, as further punishment, all records held by the NON people of color shall be expunged, all reference to any and all stadiums and or teams stricken from Cooperstown.
In for a dime, may as well throw it all in.
How about getting made at the Negro League as well? IIRC, some in that league really did not like ones like Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and others jumping to play with the whites as they regarded that as threat to the one the blacks played in already.
When did the Yankee’s first field Elston Howard? I remember 1955 maybe.
Kate Smith isn’t alive to virtue signal, so she’s obviously the more racist.
“That’s Why Darkies Were Born” is a kind of satire. “Pickninny Heaven” is cringe-worthy. What people have to take into account is that there were a lot of media in those days — music, advertising, movies — that portrayed blacks in a way that anyone today should find offensive. They were all grotesque images and stereotypes.
Thankfully, those are in the past, as are those offending Kate Smith songs. Who, but a Kate Smith aficionado — or someone who was digging for dirt on her — would even know those songs existed? Did she sing those songs later in her career? She did not. And so they should have no effect on the rest of her body of work, including her definitive “God Bless America.”
Yeah...this could get interesting
Maybe it’s a good time to start petitioning Every City in America that dares to Host ANYTHING for a Democrat, because of their Racist Past by creating the KKK and having it as their Official Party Platform for years.
It was 1955. And the last to get into line in concerning racial integration in MLB was the Boston Red Sox in 1959, with Pumpsie Green, even though the Red Sox at one time could have had both Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays.
New York Yankees. Offensive to Southerners. LOL.
Philadelphia Phillies did not have a black player until 1957. Red Sox were the last to integrate (1959). Philadelphia is hypocritical to claim Kate Smith was a racist.
If the past defines who we are today, then every state should bar the Democratic Party from the ballot. And yet, democrats still idolize Woodrow Wilson, Robert Byrd, Jimmy Carter, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, William Fulbright, John F. Kennedy, William J. Clinton, Margaret Sanger, and many others, despite their racist words and deeds.
Have the Yankees banned walk up music by rap artists that use the n-word and call women bitches and hoes?
I didn’t think so.
How about every Hollywood actor who’s been around since the 60’s and have uttered the “N” word in movies at one time or another?
Should we wipe em out, burn the films, erase their names from history?
After all, it’s only fair...
Yankees? The Red Socks know what to do with them.
Why the sudden outrage? “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” was not something she recorded in secret. It was a bestselling record in late 1931 and early ‘32. So why, after nearly nine decades has this suddenly become controversial?
>Why the sudden outrage? “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” was not >something she recorded in secret. It was a bestselling record in late >1931 and early ‘32. So why, after nearly nine decades has this >suddenly become controversial?
It’s easy to go after her since she is no longer with us. In other words, for the frggin’ libs, they like to attack an unarmed target.
This viewpoint is totally opposite to that of the present-day Black Lives Matter crowd and what radio commentator Larry Elder calls the Victicrats. So she has to go.
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