Posted on 04/25/2019 4:15:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
“This was not the work of a racist.”
I don’t know why the same people who want to destroy the memory of Kate Smith are not out to destroy the memory of Paul Robeson who recorded the same song in the same era. Oh, wait, I DO know why, it is because Robeson was a very black, self identified communist so it wasn’t racist when he sang it. Kate Smith could have said black is beautiful and they would be condemning her for that in this age.
‘This is exactly why even those conservatives with no sympathies for the Confederacy’
I have no problems with the Confederacy on its own; I hold no sympathies for any large group of people consciously engaging in controversial measures such as splintering the union because they don’t like the results of an election...
‘ought to oppose the PC Left’s efforts to tear down Confederate flags and monuments.’
and so I do...as vigorously as I can...
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