So the Flyers and Yankees cease using the song immediately due to stereotypical lyrics on 2 songs sung by Kate Smith in the 30's. One of those songs was apparently a parody recorded with an African American. Kate Smith, a true American hero, raising the equivalent in 2019 of 11 billion dollars to fight the Nazis during WWII. Incidentally the songs in question came out 20 years before the Yankees employed a black player. Thoughts without a flame war?
I always liked her rendition the best. Never knew the part about the Black American and her. Now, thanks to you, I've got terribly mixed up feelings. Thanks a lot.
They seldom play it at the Blazer games and when they do it is often sung by none other than Bill Schonely. He sometimes does this on Military Appreciation nights when all of us Veterans get to stand a get noticed with a hearty applause. Makes me feel proud.
Wait, they are banning this song, because someone who sang it also sang songs that were racist? That's pretty silly. I'm not too upset because the song is horrid. Good riddance. barfo
ummm, Bann God Bless America because of some other song sang by Kate Smith? Does that make sense? Or because Iving Berlin, the writer, was a Russian immigrant? Or is it just banning the phrase, God Bless America? Woody Guthrie's song, This Land I your Land, this Land is My Land, also from the same era, also has the phrase, God Bless America. People use to stand for either of these songs being played in public, as well as the National Anthem. https://blog.oup.com/2015/07/woody-guthrie-folk-music-national-anthem/ https://www.songfacts.com/facts/kate-smith/god-bless-america
This is apparently the song that got Kate Smith in trouble. She was not the first to record it. Paul Roberson lead the way.
I will always understand that this country was founded by racist, genocidal slave owners who were treasonous to great Britain because they were tired of paying taxes...
Well, it is a matter of perspective. But in any case you and I came much later. My Grandfather told me it was a great place. I took it to heart.
Slavery in America was a heinous crime by Britain and other European countries, with America and many other countries being no worse than willing and naive victims. Get off the internet, go to a Real Library, and for starters research how Britain, Holland, Portugal and several African governments kidnapped Africans, then sold and shipped them all over North and South America. The slave trade was established here by Britain and Holland long before 1776, and in fact was at least a minor factor in the American Revolution. No other countries in the world bear more blame than Britain and Holland, which to this day still practice slavery of their own citizens, albeit in a much more subtle form. The British Industrial revolution was financed by the profits of the slave trade almost entirely. Britain had a far more insidious goal for promoting, supplying slaves to the Americas, which was to make their economies totally reliant on Britain for industrial and agricultural labor. It was the key tool they used for conquest of new territories spanning the globe. With the end of slavery in most of the Americas, the British Empire began to collapse and lost most of their influence and power over the next centuries in revolts inspired by the heroic patriots of the American Revolution and the American Civil War. Britain is now just another small, whiny european country with no major influence over anyone, hiding/denying it's reprehensible past. Portugal, Denmark and Sweden also traded in slaves. America received a tiny fraction of slaves, with 95% of all slaves being shipped to the Caribbean sugar plantations, Mexico, Brazil, and Spanish-controlled parts of South America. Blaming Americans, Brazilians, Argentinians...for the slave trade is like blaming the opioid epidemic on the addicts. But go ahead and google it if you prefer, as it is indisputable common knowledge. A few examples: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery/pdf/britain-and-the-trade.pdf Britain was the most dominant between 1640 and 1807 when the British slave trade was abolished. It is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans (of whom 2.7 million arrived) to the British colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to other countries. The profits of slavery were ploughed back into the economy and helped to develop industry in Britain and its colonies. Manchester became an important textile centre, where factories made cloth from cheap slave picked cotton. Much of this cloth was sold back to the Africans in return for more slaves. Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery. By the time it was abolished after years of campaigning by Emperor Pedro II, in 1888, an estimated four million slaves had been imported from Africa to Brazil, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas. In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery, when a presidential decree abolished the practice. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban. Among the last states to abolish slavery were Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from Britain; Oman in 1970; and Mauritania in 1905, 1981, and again in August 2007. Atlantic slave trade was banned or suspended during the American Revolutionary War. This was part of the 13 colonies overall policy of refusing to import anything from Britain, as an attempt to cut all economic ties with Britain during the war. The move decimated the British Empire financially. British colonies in North America began abolishing slavery 100 years before Britain followed suit, with some backpeddling in later years as Britain exerted more domination over laws in their colonies: 1732-Georgia-Province established without black slavery in sharp contrast to neighboring Carolina. In 1738, James Oglethorpe warns against changing that policy, which would "occasion the misery of thousands in Africa."[41] Native American slavery is legal throughout, however, and black slavery is later introduced in 1749. 1738-Florida-Fort Mosé, the first legal settlement of free blacks in what is today the United States, is established. Word of the settlement sparks the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina the following year. 1775-Pennsylvania-Pennsylvania Abolition Society formed in Philadelphia, the first abolition society within the territory that is now the United States of America. 1777-Vermont-The Constitution of the Vermont Republic partially bans slavery,[48] freeing men over 21 and women older than 18 at the time of its passage.[49] The ban is not strongly enforced.[
Me, too, man! Me, too! Hey, when are the all-powerful mods gonna finally acquiesce and let you back in here??
