Sports teams gone stupid: Banishing Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America”

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Sports teams gone stupid: Banishing Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America”

Karen TownsendPosted at 9:01 pm on April 22, 2019

Just when you think it can’t get any more stupid, it does. The march to erase anything that may trigger a delicate mind now includes the charge that legendary singer Kate Smith sang racist songs in the 1930s. Two sports teams now say her rendition of “God Bless America” will no longer be played during games.

Kate Smith died in 1986. She was known for her patriotism and even awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982 by President Reagan as her health was in decline. She began singing for troops in Army camps during World War I near Washington, D.C. at the tender age of eight. She never received musical training. Her career spanned 50 years but only now, after more than thirty years since her death, she is accused of racism. This is inexcusable.

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/22/sports-teams-gone-stupid-banishing-kate-smiths-rendition-god-bless-america/

[rustynail]

Part of the plan is for no one to sing “God Bless America”, some are saying.

[skeeter]

I can barely see those goal posts from where I stand anymore.

Good riddance to 'em.

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