One wonders, what are the real problems plaguing urban youth: 1) the fact that a famous singer sang other songs that would not be played today; or 2) wild brawls that detract from any semblance of education? The problem with “G-d Bless America” is that Kate Smith also sang “That’s Why Darkies Were Born.”
Now, keep in mind, Kate Smith did not write either one. Israel Beilin a/k/a Irving Berlin wrote “G-d Bless America.” Paul Robeson, a black singer who immortalized, among other songs “Old Man River” and who fled the U.S. because of McCarthyism sang “That’s Why Darkies Were Born.” Maybe we need to ban all songs that Paul Robeson ever sang. That takes down “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen." And while we’re at it, Aretha Franklin, Miriam Anderson and Mahalia Jackson would also have their songs stricken because those singers sang the now-offensive spirituals.
The question is why the minority community is focusing on very remote slights. Kate Smith is not the cause of the brawl. She sang songs sung by notable black singers that would not be written for public consumption today. Why are we looking for statues to remove rather than concentrating students on actual work?
Do you have any evidence that the “minority community” is ignoring violence? Or any reason to believe that being critical of a singer somehow takes anything away from efforts to reduce violence?
It would be interesting to know whether the people demanding Kate Smith be banned from baseball games were black or white.
There’s a certain type of white folks who like to prove how aware they are of racial injustice. They are rarer than Trump supporters would have you believe, but they are there. And they are making things harder when it comes to attaining real racial equality.
I recognize the OP’s attempt to find a hypocrisy gotcha, but the two events aren’t closely enough connected (or connected at all, really) to pull it off.
Don’t you see? Some black people done where did something bad. Anyone who ever said anything about reducing racism must completely switch focus to this.
After all, while it is true that when a white person does something wring that is only a personal failing, minorities must all be perfect before the deserve equal treatment.
Why are you posting here instead of curing America’s problems?
Clearly people in the statue removal business aren’t the experts in stopping street fights. But you seem to lay claim that you know how to fix America, and yet you’re wasting your time here.
Shame on you. Just leave those poor statue removers to do their job, and stop blaming them for things they have nothing to do with. They’re just trying to make a living, and here you are making a scapegoat out of them.
So now you can maybe answer a question about the possibility of doing multiple things. Like, if someone asks me whether we should have cops or firefighters, I say “wait; is there a reason we can’t have both? Because I want both, and also paramedics and teachers; and, near as I can tell, we can have all of that up and running.”
Can we, in your opinion, address both of the issues you mentioned in the OP, and also address a third thing and possibly a fourth?
well because you see the evil atheistic godless liburls are picking on one of the saints of patriotic godlly Americana but yet haven’t solved other problems in the world there wasting their time …