Why is Walt posting this today? Because word has just reached us from Philthydelphia that the NHL Flyers have removed from in front of the team's arena a statue of the late Kate Smith, which had been there since 1987. Flyers fans had long believed that their team would win crucial games if Kate sang "God Bless America" (instead of "The Star-spangled Banner") before the puck drop. And that's the way it turned out, 90% of the time, when this video was recorded on 19 May 1974.
So what happened? Why was the late Kate's statue first covered up, a couple of days ago, and then taken down? Well, it turns out that Ms Smith, like all other white Americans of her era, was a racist! Why, she recorded overtly racist songs, like "Pickaninny Heaven" (1933) and "That's Why the Darkies Were Born", written in 1931 and considered simple satire at the time. And her cartoon likeness appeared in a 1939 ad for Calumet Baking Powder that also used the "mammy" caricature -- think Gone With the Wind -- a well-known racist depiction of black women. For shame!
And so, 80 years later, Kate Smith becomes the latest victim of political correctness and the anti-racism SJWs. Thank goodness she passed away in 1986 and didn't live to see what has become of the America she loved.
Further viewing: Kate Smith's introduction of "God Bless America", a movie short from 1943. This super-patriotic song was written by (((Irving Berlin))) in 1918. He revised it in 1938, and the revised version, introduced in the film This Is the Army, became Ms Smith's signature song.
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