>Since 2001, the New York Yankees had a tradition of playing Kate Smith's landmark 1939 rendition of "God Bless America" at home games. In 2019 the baseball franchise decided to discontinue use of the song over controversy surrounding two 1931 recordings by Smith titled "That's Why God Created Darkies" and "Pickanniny Heaven." The portly Virginia native, who died in 1986, was one of the biggest singers in America during the 1930s and World War II before seeing her popularity decline postwar. Some of Smith's relatives flatly denied that she had been a racist. Aside from the Yankees dropping the use of "God Bless America", the city of Philadelphia also removed a statue of Smith that stood outside the Flyers' home arena at Fargo Center.[9]

>that's why God created darkies
Lmao

>>127157867 (OP)
yeah let's cancel someone who died 33 years ago for a record she made 87 years ago that makes perfect sense

>>127157867 (OP)
>Some of Smith's relatives flatly denied that she had been a racist.
if you grew up in the early 20th century South I wouldn't bet on it

It was a different time. Get over it.

>>127157867 (OP)
>Since 2001
That's not a tradition

>>127157867 (OP)
>before seeing her popularity decline postwar.
Smith basically just got displaced by younger singers like Jo Stafford and Doris Day much like what happened with Connee Boswell. She did have a little bit of a comeback in the 60s though which included covering le "Yesterday."

>>127157888
she probably didn't think anything of singing/recording those songs either. it's not like she wrote them. she probably didn't even have a choice in what material she sang, if she had a recording contract.

>>127157973
She cut an LP for Capitol in 1954, they even got Nelson Riddle to arrange it but it flopped and got poor reviews, mostly calling her singing style passee.

>>127158032
yeah nobody got to choose their material back then unless they were a really established singer with big connections. well i mean even still true today.

>>127157867 (OP)
nah they were just sore because KS was a staunch Reagan supporter in her final years and they invited her to the White House. if she'd endorsed Jimmy Carter or something then this wouldn't happen.

>A woman who grew up in the pre-CRA South recorded a problematic song once
This was a new level of lame on the part of SJWs I never even thought possible.

>>127157867 (OP)
you know Bing Crosby also recorded "The Missouri Waltz" with the original unexpurgated lyrics while most postwar recordings have the cleaned up version. i guess he could be posthumously cancelled too and we ban him from the mall sound system at Christmas.

>>127157867 (OP)
Good grief, Babe Ruth was so fuckin fat. How is that supposed to be one of the greatest athletes of all time

>>127158340
yeah yeah sports training and medicine were not as advanced back then as they are today. but i mean he was retired by the time this photo was taken anyway. dude didn't exactly live too long though, went in his 50s.

>>127158340
He didn't have to run much if he kept knocking shit out of the park.

>>127158340
He was out of baseball in 1936. Babe was built like a king in his peak. Wasn't circumsized either big snake

>>127157867 (OP)
The specific thing going on in this photo is that Ruth was helping her promote her radio show and the broom was part of a comedy skit they did together.

>>127158333
I saw Bing Crosby at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday.

The Flyers still play her song before every home game I believe. That ownership at the time was very disconnected from the fan base and removing the statue was very unpopular.

>>127158658
that was during peak SJW cancel season when Soros mobs were demolishing Confederate statues and whatnot

Kate's final public appearance was at the Oscars in 1983 where she was basically an invalid from diabetes complications and Bob Hope wheeled her in on a wheelchair as the crowd all sang God Bless America to her.

>>127158191
>It was not the first time Smith had been saluted by a president. In 1969, in light of Jim Morrison's arrest in Miami for indecent exposure, Smith had performed with The Lettermen, Anita Bryant, and Jackie Gleason in a concert demonstration against indecency, for which President Richard Nixon commended the stars' performances.[48]

She just happened to end up on the wrong side of the culture wars so she got posthumously cancelled by trannies.

There's no future in a society that lets terminally online troons stalk and retroactively "cancel" everyone in history. Or just plain stalk everyone, famous and not so famous.

>>127159004
Well at least they waited until 30 years after her death to cancel her as opposed to what happened to Anita Bryant.

>>127159039
>Well at least they waited until 30 years after her death to cancel her as opposed to what happened to Anita Bryant.

there's consequences for spewing hatred against marginalized groups of people i hope you realize

>>127159004
tbqh surprised they didn't also posthumously cancel Jim Morrison for being too problematic and white male

>>127157867 (OP)
Good, New York needs to stop memorializing 9/11 every day. Get some new material

>>127157867 (OP)
my boomer mom said she remembered seeing Kate Smith on TV when she was a kid. the woman was like a museum artifact at that point.

>>127161828
to be fair I didn't even make the mental connection that they were playing that song because of 9/11