Whose past is more racist: Kate Smith's or the New York Yankees'?

American Thinker ^ | 04/24/2019 | By Neil Braithwaite

[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?

[VietVet876]

It was a hit. You’ve got to wonder why one of the contemporary divas hasn’t come out with a modern rendition of “Pickaninny Heaven”. Come on, Taylor Swift.

[JoeFromSidney]

They probably think I should hang my head in shame. My Senior year in High School, 1949, we put on a Minstrel Show. Some of the guys were in blackface. I was Mr. Interlocutor, a "white" role. I sang a solo, the chorus sang several numbers, including Old Man River. and the guys in blackface cracked black-oriented jokes. All in innocent fun then, but very un-PC by today's standards.

[Fair Paul]

The Yankees also signed the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework, so they’ve got that going for themselves as well.

[humbleexpert]

Many schools have also banned the teaching of “Huckleberry Finn” because they consider the novel racist, even though it’s the greatest story of an interracial friendship in history.

So Mark Twain has joined Kate Smith on the modern Leftist funeral pyre, where reputations are burned as often as books were once burned in Nazi Germany.

But those interested in learning the truth about racism in America should visit northern Civil War graveyards where 620,000 dead union soldiers were buried after giving their lives to free African-American slaves from tyranny...so that today those slaves’ descendants, from Al Sharpton to Maxine Waters to any mean-spirited, ignorant Black with a microphone, are free to make fools of themselves by attacking America’s greatest singers, novels, writers, presidents, whatever.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That says it all, and I am not surprised that she said it.

[RedMonqey]

New York Yankees. Offensive to Southerners. LOL.



(Snicker, snicker)

[RedMonqey]

should visit northern Civil War graveyards where 620,000 dead union soldiers were buried

The "620,000" figure should include all dead from the American Civil War, both Northern and Southern casualties.

Just sayin'