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From the New York Times:
Kate Smith Sang Racist Songs. But Jersey Shore Town Will Not Abandon Her ‘God Bless America.’
The mayor of Wildwood said the town would still play the song every summer morning, despite concerns about lyrics Smith recorded in the 1930s.By Michael Gold
April 25, 2019At the height of summer, when the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J., is mobbed by beach-loving visitors, pretty much everything comes to a halt at 11 a.m.
That’s when the sunscreen-drenched crowd falls silent, the cacophony of loud voices replaced by a patriotic medley blasted from the boardwalk’s loudspeakers — “The Star-Spangled Banner’’ followed by Kate Smith’s famous version of “God Bless America.’’
The daily ritual, rooted in national pride, is a beloved local tradition. But it has now come under scrutiny after recent revelations that Smith’s recording catalog featured racist songs.
Nevertheless, the town’s mayor, Ernie Troiano Jr., insists that Wildwood had no plans to silence Smith.
“It is one of the most patriotic songs that was ever recorded,” Mr. Troiano said. “Why would I want to change tradition?”
The mayor’s stance differed from recent decisions by the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers to stop playing Smith’s version of the song at their games after each team learned about the offensive songs, which were recorded in the 1930s.
Mr. Troiano’s spirited defense of preserving his town’s custom has placed Wildwood in the middle of a national cultural debate about political correctness and how America should reckon with its racist past.
Oh dear.
Mayor Troiano has no idea he’s about to become the focal point of 2 minutes (2 months? 2 years?) of SJW hate.
They cannot let Mayor Troiano’s rebellion stand, lest it encourage others to resist.
They must destroy him utterly.
how America should reckon with its racist past.
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
Don't practice cannibalism, but don't be ashamed of your cannibal ancestors. Why is this so hard for modern idiots to understand?
The New York Times is refusing calls to cease publication, despite revelations that it published articles containing the racial slur “darkies” during the middle of Kate Smith’s recording career.
Question: How many years must pass before a White person like Kate Smith, or a people like the Americans, can be absolved of a sin?
Assuming the sin even matters.
Is the answer infinity?
This question came to mind today when my wife mentioned how shocking it is that women in America couldn’t vote until 1920. I agreed that it is shocking, but I reminded her that it was a century ago (even before Emmet Till!)
That wasn’t good enough.
(I didn’t ask her if women in Romania could vote in 1920, or if anyone at all could at that particular moment in their colorful history.)
In fact, universal suffrage was a massive mistake.
Discuss.
These manufactured micro-controversies telling the stories of Racist Bad People From The Past are just Sunday School lessons for the Woke.
It’s time to put Kate up on the flannelgraph board.
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
What racist past?
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
Why be ashamed of it? For the benefit of people who would never cut you any slack? To Hell with ’em. Just not giving a damn about it is a better strategy.
A town will still play a song from a singer, despite the fact that she also sang a different song.
And all I can honk is, “we live in a clown society.”
Mayor Troiano has no idea he's about to become the focal point of 2 minutes (2 months? 2 years?) of SJW hate.
They cannot let Mayor Troiano's rebellion stand, lest it encourage others to resist.
They must destroy him utterly.
What’s happening at the governor’s mansion in Virginia? Didn’t Gov. Northam (who strikes me as a bit on the autism spectrum) simply ride it out, counting on the fact that the Twitter false outrage gang has an incredibly short attention span and must constantly move on to fresher targets?
Has there been a pro sports team that did NOT side with the leftist mob during recent controversies? I can't think of an example. Starve that beast.
Yes, it is shocking that some measure of sanity prevailed for so long in the breeding grounds of harpy Puritanism.
Do they really expect an Italian guy from New Jersey to be woke?
A witch hunt sparked by a pop song that’s almost ninety years old. I find this truly frightening. I hope that the normies are paying attention.
Hear, hear!
“by Michael Gold”
No further questions, your honor.
. . . . .
Gee wiz, it really does look like diversity IS our greatest strength!
If this had happened 2 years from now:
“Announcement from President Kamala Harris: ‘Bombing commences in 10 minutes’ “.
Attaboy, Mayor Troiano! Show ’em how it’s done!
“OH! Susanna” the way Stephen Foster in 1848 intended it (No, he doesn’t use “darkies”):
Which do you think is more fundamental to a sane society, foot binding or clitoridectomy?
Giving women the vote was a massive mistake.
In fact, universal suffrage was a massive mistake.
Discuss.
I guess that Long Island Hebrew Institute award for combating racial hatred, intolerance, and bigotry doesn’t get Kate any SJW bonus points.
“The Hebrew Institute of Long Island has awarded to Kate Smith a bronze plaque for her efforts to combat racial hatred, intolerance and bigotry, it was announced yesterday.” [December 30, 1946]
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/12/30/archives/bronze-plaque-for-kate-smith.html
Some “piccaninny” songs from Paul Robeson.
No further questions, your honor.
. . . . .
Gee wiz, it really does look like diversity IS our greatest strength!
Michael Gold didn’t write the article because it’s news. He wrote the article to draw attention to a dangerous dissenter.
Assemble the horde! Burn the heretic! Get him fired! Surround his house! Terrify his children!
He vill learn obedience.
They should adopt a song from David Allan Coe to replace kate Smith’s. That’d give them something to bitch about.
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
Why should we be ashamed of it?
That is not enough. You need an argument for why you have the moral high ground.
Tell your wife that women could vote in more than half the states before the 19th amendment was passed.
Ask her to make you a sandwich, and while you eat it, curse silently the fools who gave the franchise to so many llamas and emus.
How long before “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones becomes “problematic”?
https://youtu.be/Qr0uPRiDKuI
This is an example of how wealthy ADL AJC and the rest of the Jewish anti White organizations are. Someone actually spent the time and effort to first find all her songs and then read the lyrics of every song.
AJCADL operatives must be scrutinizing every song written since 1700. Of course Jewish anti White feminazis will never say a word about rap lyrics like kill that bitch rape that bitch will they?
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
Sorry pal, but it’s the present I’m ashamed of, not the past.
Remind her that not one woman voted to give women the right to vote. (They couldn’t vote yet, remember?) All votes giving women the right to vote were cast by men. She can thank us any time.
Remind her that the argument against giving women the right to vote was that women are too emotional and irrational to make good voters. The argument seemed very reasonable at the time. It seems even more reasonable today now that we have radical feminists and Hillary voters screaming “believe the survivors!”
Remind her that every time she puts on a pair of shoes made by slave labor in some third world dictatorship, she is guilty of being a slave trader. Every time she votes for a democrat or a republican she is guilty of committing war crimes, since at least some of our wars have been unnecessary and therefore crimes, and the democrats and republicans always vote for them.
If she is a slave trader and a war criminal, then what right does she have to be shocked by anyone else’s behavior?
If she thinks she has a case that she is not a slave trader and a war criminal, then what makes her think 19th century men who owned slaves and kept women from voting didn’t have a case justifying their actions as well?
That women were more likely than men to vote against suffrage is one of the better reasons in its favor!
Study it, learn from it, be ashamed of it and move the f*** on.
Look at heritage from a Mexican point of view:
Half your ancestry is Aztec. Aztecs practiced conquest, massacre, torture, rape, and slavery, all of which were nothing compared to the human sacrifice and cannibalism they practiced with relish on a grand scale.
The other half of your ancestry is Spanish. The Spanish practiced conquest, massacre, torture, rape, and slavery. To their everlasting moral credit they were horrified by the human sacrifice and cannibalism they found going on in Tenochtitlan.
If I were a Mexican I would celebrate all that was praiseworthy in Cortez and Montezuma. I would celebrate my ancestors and traditions. I would acknowledge the bad stuff but not make a big deal out of it. Judging other people without walking in their shoes is cheap morality. Judging other people while you and yours commit worse sins is cheap hypocrisy.
Don’t practice cannibalism, but don’t be ashamed of your cannibal ancestors. Why is this so hard for modern idiots to understand?
Heck not only that, but the accused rapist LG rode it out too.
Has there been a pro sports team that did NOT side with the leftist mob during recent controversies? I can’t think of an example. Starve that beast.
AJCADL operatives must be scrutinizing every song written since 1700. Of course Jewish anti White feminazis will never say a word about rap lyrics like kill that bitch rape that bitch will they?
What percentage of American hit songs composed in 1920-1950 were written by Jews?
Patriotic Racism: It’s not just another character on The Jersey Shore. What do you expect from anyone whose name ends in a vowel?
Don't practice cannibalism, but don't be ashamed of your cannibal ancestors. Why is this so hard for modern idiots to understand?
They descend less from the Aztecs than from the surviving victims. Nevertheless, “Azteca” is a popular club name for immigrant soccer clubs.
Finian’s Rainbow (Harburg/Lane) is considered unplayable today, even though it was radically “liberal” for its day. The white sheriff is turned black at the end, as “punishment”. Another ironic oddity of the era is that, barely six years after WWII, Copenhagen is pronounced the German way in Hans Christian Andersen, despite its having a Jewish composer, screenwriter, and star.
Five of the six composers given individual chapters in Alex Wilder’s classic American Popular Song 1900-1950 are Jewish, Cole Porter being the exception. The next step below was a section of a following chapter, and goys so honored include Jimmy Van Heusen, Victor Herbert, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Isham Jones, and Richard Whiting.
(If the last name is unfamiliar to you, his song titles won’t be. “On the Good Ship Lollipop”, for one, was inspired by his famous daughter Margaret, not Shirley Temple.)
The best off-the-cuff answer to your question would be “roughly half”, but more nearer the top. Lotka and Pareto are handy guides.
What is the relevance of your question?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Brown
Lew Brown (born Louis Brownstein, Russian: Луис Браунштейн, December 10, 1893 – February 5, 1958) was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.
I will sincerely enjoy singing God Bless America as part of the pre-race festivities before next month’s Indianapolis 500.
Who knew it would be a subversive act?
In fact, universal suffrage was a massive mistake.
Discuss.
Imagine the endless bitching and moaning if men had the vote and wimmin did not
Is the ADL is really out to get all the composers of politically incorrect songs from the first half of the 20th Century?
Probably no more than there is now.
> The NYT is refusing calls to cease publication, despite revelations that it published articles containing the racial slur “darkies”
This. Few prominent SJWs have racist skeletons in their closets. The yearn to conform is a key to success in their movement. And they’re young, so the animating Spirit of the Age hasn’t completely turned since their adolescent years.
SJW institutions are bastions of conformist groupthink. Back when slurring blacks or mocking transgenders was in style, that’s what they did.
As the revered Alinsky quipped, make ’em live by their own rules. Regular people can grok the hypocrisy of “venial sin for me, mortal sin for thee.” The agenda of Progressive candidates and cultural icons advances because few realize what the nomenklatura has in store for them, as the Revolution keeps ratcheting.
Glad I could provide you an opportunity for easy internet virtue signaling. My daily good deed is done.
In fact, universal suffrage was a massive mistake.
Discuss.
What is there to discuss? It’s obviously true. Only henpecked boomercons could think otherwise here.
I know Wildwood very well – it’s your stereotypical Jersey shore boardwalk town that attracts tons of working class ethnic whites (or used to anyway, probably a lot of Latinos now), sort of the type of Italian Eddie Murphy once lampooned in his standup bit about Rocky. Not at all surprised the political leader of such a place took this position.
The accused rapist LT of Virginia has this new graphic: https://twitter.com/notlarrysabato/status/1120794454695215104/photo/1
Apparently, Ernie has found a smoothest way to cognitively disonance himself from the Curent Year’s hyperreality.
So the morons are upset about what the long dead Kate Smith sang in the 1930’s? Here’s one for the fools — the black communist Paul Robeson sang at least one of the same songs. But let’s take it one step further. As baseball was segregated in the 30’s stop going to Yankee games –they’re RACIST!!!!! One more, Irving Berlin wrote “God Bless America” therefore anyone opposed to it is an anti-Semite.
Defending one’s own is in fact virtuous. Signal to noise ratio exceeptional.
Not quiet half. At least in the 1918 election. In twelve states, women were permitted to vote for, and only for, presidential electors. But only Illinois had passed this law before the 1916 election.
Women were given the chance to vote on their own suffrage, in some elections. Feminists put an end to this, because the results were even worse. According to Helen (Rittelmeyer) Andrews, suffragettes in the UK were quite explicit about this strategy, at least to their allies in Parliament.
That women were more likely than men to vote against suffrage is one of the better reasons in its favor!
It was the “manly” West where suffragism first prevailed. New England was divided.
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Anti-Suffrage Essays BY MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN
These were upper-crust “Puritan”, or Puritan-stock, women. One of them, “Mrs Herbert Lyman”, is a distant cousin of mine. Catholic women also opposed it, for different but equally valid reasons.
As for the West, a joke at the time was that “Not every suffragist is a Mormon, but every Mormon is a suffragist.”
The most annoying feminists are the male ones.
Oh please.
Most annoying people, more like. I try my best not to miss an opportunity to piss in their cheerios.
Not that this would be moral or intelligent either, but why hasn’t any of the anger directed at Kate Smith, who merely sang the song, found its way to the men who conceived and wrought a song explaining the purpose of “darkies”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Brown
Lew Brown (born Louis Brownstein, Russian: Луис Браунштейн, December 10, 1893 – February 5, 1958) was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.
Don’t even tell her that; never argue with women or converse with them as if they are rational, no more than you would with a llama or an emu.
Ask her to make you a sandwich, and while you eat it, curse silently the fools who gave the franchise to so many llamas and emus.
Do keep up, old bean.
https://youtu.be/Qr0uPRiDKuI
In other words, you are dealing with an anti-White nutter here.
I never cared for the song (“God bless” doesn’t do much for an atheist) but it’s much better than Lee Greenwood’s cheesy “Proud to be an American” with lyrics that are almost completely false. “I know I’m free”? Not since the Patriot Act! And in what way did the unfortunates who died in Vietnam and Iraq safeguard what little remains of my freedom?
https://youtu.be/Qr0uPRiDKuI
Time to crank up the Stones!
Neither one wears well for repeated use.