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04-19-2019, 11:39 PM | #1 | ||
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August 20th, 2019: KATE SMITH
WTF!!
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The reason Kate Smith was the highest paid performer($3000 a week) in radio days was not because she was a hot babe, it was because she sang so well. Probably should have done opera, the horns and brass bra would be perfect. Listening to "That's Why Darkies...", it sounds to me like a slave/sharecropper's lament. Probably why Paul Robson recorded it too. I think Pickaninny Heaven was from her one and only shot at a movie. And she endorsed a Mammy Dollin doll. tsk tsk it looked like Aunt Jemima who is still around, although updated in the '60s. The Yankees said, "The Yankees take social, racial and cultural insensitivities very seriously." Probably the Yankees wouldn't hire any black players before 1950, 20 years after Kate had a hit with "That's Why Darkies...", is because they didn't think it would be sportsman like to siphon off talent from the Negro League. But they would let them clean up the stadium after the white folks went home. You can't stamp out racism by denying it ever happened or pulling bullshit stunts like this. But the Flyers took a different tact, they put Kate in a black Burqa. Nuff said.
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04-20-2019, 09:31 AM | #2 |
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On the bright side, racism is over now that this has been dealt with.
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04-20-2019, 10:30 AM | #3 |
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04-20-2019, 11:01 AM | #4 |
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Boycott Elton John, he used the racist term "honky cat" in a song.
But but Bernie Taupin wrote it that way, Elton just sang it. Smear Taupin and nobody knows what you're talking about.
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04-20-2019, 11:59 AM | #5 |
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You don't suppose the Yankees did this to troll the Flyers...?
The lyrics Google coughs up, suggest the first bit of the YouTube above is an introduction. And, wildly, the YouTube cuts off in the middle of the song, in exactly the wrong place. ~ 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; <---- YouTube video cuts off here !! 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. ~ So. I think the song is using the word "darkies" in a satirical sense. The song is sympathetic to black people, and that is the only way Robeson can sing it too. I think in 1930s culture it is a celebration of black people. Especially if it's a white woman who is actually singing the line that says black people taught white people to sing. You taught us how to do that, and look, I am doing it now, she is saying, in effect. That is a very interesting artistic statement. But, I could be wrong! |
04-20-2019, 02:10 PM | #6 | |
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Yeah, I think we're prolly done here.
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