No More Kate Smith

[Ghost of LL 15698]

Happy news on this Friday--Kate Smith was a huge fucking racist.  And that means that we don't need to hear her awful warbling rendition of "God Bless America" every night during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium.

Now if we can just eliminate the song altogether, we'll be set.

[Sbbruin 22142]

I thought her tune "That's Why Darkies Were Born" was pretty catchy.  The lyrics seem pretty harmless.

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Someone had to pick the cotton,
Someone had to pick the corn,
Someone had to slave and be able to sing,
That's why darkies were born;

Someone had to laugh at trouble,
Though he was tired and worn,
Had to be contented with any old thing,
That's why darkies were born;

Sing, sing, sing when you're weary and
Sing when you're blue,
Sing, sing, that's what you taught
All the white folks to do;

Someone had to fight the Devil,
Shout about Gabriel's Horn,
Someone had to stoke the train
That would bring God's children to green pastures,
That's why darkies were born.

 

[UpperWestside 6268]

Never enjoyed hearing that version at the stadium. It sounds awful and apparently she was a terrible human being.

[ernest_t_bass 1196]

OK, cool.  Hook 'em.

[phdhorn 6225]

18 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

I thought her tune "That's Why Darkies Were Born" was pretty catchy.  The lyrics seem pretty harmless.

 

This guy's version was better known.  Racist?

 

[TwiceHorn 32071]

I always preferred Pickaninny Heaven.

[YChang 3566]

This guy's version was better known.  Racist?
 

Come on... think about it for a bit.

[DeadArmadillo 907]

It was a different time.

It was a racist time, but a different time